Kris Jenner’s party took place on Saturday, November 8 — just days before Remembrance Sunday on November 9 and Remembrance Day on November 11, a solemn period in the UK honouring fallen service members.
“After it was posted, I think they realised it was Remembrance Day, and they didn’t want to be seen at a party,” Kim said. “Even though it’s already up, you know, and then taken down. And then I think they realised, like, oh, this was so silly.”
Khloe also noted that Harry and Meghan had attended the Baby2Baby Gala immediately before the birthday party.
“Well, it’s like a charity event,” Kim explained. “So, like, that was fine, but maybe not partying and dancing on the dance floor or whatever. So we took them down to respect Remembrance Day.”
‘It Didn’t Have to Become So Crazy’
Kim suggested the situation spiralled unnecessarily and could have been handled with humour rather than tension.
“Like, you got to laugh at, like, the situation sometimes and just, like, lighten it up,” she said. “And be if everyone’s taking it the wrong way, like, lean in.”
She even joked that Meghan could have leaned fully into the moment by doing a playful Skims campaign.
“I was like, ‘We should do a full Skims campaign,’” Kim said. “Take the photo — even just us, like, I’ll shoot you and mom, you know, post it and then delete it, like, 30 minutes later. And then say, ‘Oh, sorry, I didn’t have permission to post those photos for the campaign.’”
“You should do that,” Khloe replied.
“That’s what I was like — that would have hit, so funny,” Kim added.
“If we just made it light and made it funny, you know, I think it would have been, like, received differently, but I hated how that was received for everyone. That sucks.
“It was just made into something that was so crazy and ridiculous that just didn’t have to be.”
Professional Fallout for the Sussexes
The aftermath of ‘photogate’ may have extended beyond social awkwardness. According to royal journalist Tom Sykes, the controversy reportedly contributed to internal fallout within the Sussexes’ team.
Writing in his Substack, The Royalist, Sykes claimed the situation raised serious concerns for the couple’s former chief publicist, Meredith Maines.
Maines reportedly “believes she was misled on the facts about the phantom consent forms,” Sykes wrote, adding that Kardashian sources had denied to The Royalist that any such forms ever existed.