Meghan Markle flirted so hard with Rory McIlroy that her boyfriend demanded to know whether she had cheated on him with the champion golfer, a new book claims.
McIlroy, 33, first met Markle, 40, after he unexpectedly nominated her for the Ice Bucket Challenge to support ALS. Markle had then insisted that he come to her friend’s apartment in NYC to dump the ice on her himself.
The August 2014 encounter came just weeks after McIlroy had won the Open Championship in Britain at the age of 25. Tom Bowers documents this meeting in his new book, “Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors,” which was released in the UK this week.
“McIlroy had just split from his blonde fiancée, Danish tennis ace Caroline Wozniacki, and was reported to be chasing brunettes,” Bower writes.
After McIlroy and Markle posted the Ice Bucket Challenge video, which raised funds for motor neuron disease research, they enjoyed a drink at the Fitzpatrick Hotel, where he was staying.
They were seen by the hotel’s owner, John Fitzpatrick, who invited them to join him at dinner with 20 pals at Cipriani that night.
“The following morning, McIlroy arrived at Ridgewood Country Club 30 miles away to play in a new competition. Worse for wear after a hectic night, he fell back to 101st place,” Bower writes. “Nevertheless, he refused to sleep as usual near the golf course to be ready the following day. Instead, he drove back to New York to see Meghan. His performance suffered.
“I wasn’t quite on my game,” he confessed later. “I was enjoying myself.”
Back home in Toronto at the end of the week with her boyfriend, chef Cory Vitiello, Markle gushed about the sports star on her now-defunct blog, “The Tig.”
“Ah yes. Rory McIlroy. THE Rory McIlroy. Whispered (and shouted) to be the foremost golfer in the world, loved by Tiger, respected by Palmer, and dumper of frigid water on to my lone head for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. That Rory McIlroy. He is a force who has the propensity to actually work hard and play hard. Relishing intense practices to substantiate his title, embracing nights of sipping Opus One (his bold and impressive choice of wine) and indulging in group dinners at Cipriani, for the balance, of course,” Markle excitedly documented their encounter.
Markle went on to write, “And yet, beyond his work/play ethic, the most endearing quality of this man is his character, as real and honest as they come, appreciating a simple smile, never shunning a fan photo, enjoying a plate of pasta with veal ragu, and expressing a love for his parents that is rarely seen in men his age. Or at any age, to be honest. He is not just the real deal … he is real. And perhaps that is what makes him even more cherished.”
Bower writes in his book that Markle was keen to use her and McIlroy’s close relationship to promote herself. He writes, “She encouraged the media to publish photographs of McIlroy and herself. As she would later admit, she occasionally set up a paparazzi photo or let info slip out to the press.”
When her then boyfriend Vitiello confronted Markle on whether their was infidelity on her part, she insisted that her and McIlroy were innocent. Vitiello believed her after wholeheartedly.
That same year, Markle used connections to snag a speaking slot at the One Young World conference in Dublin, Bower writes.
“Excited about her trip, she posted a message to an Irish friend of McIlroy: ‘Lock something down. I head out there October 14-17. Have a wonderful night X MM,’” Bower writes.
Markle and her boyfriend flew in from Toronto in a Netjet paid for by McIlroy, sources told Bower.
On October 17, Markle and McIlroy had dinner at swanky Dublin restaurant Fade Street Social. She was spotted looking smitten and gazing intently at McIlroy by a newspaper gossip columnist, while Vitiello seemed rather annoyed.
“Again he challenged Meghan and asked had there been an affair?’” he asked angrily.
Emphatically, Meghan denied that she had betrayed him, Bower writes. She said she and McIlroy were just friends and once more he believed her.
Markle’s agent called the newspaper for a correction and the following day, it printed a story about Markle and Vitiello, saying, “They’re madly in love … The two of them were sewn at the hip the entire time they spent in Ireland.”
“Meghan was relieved,” Bower concludes. “The golfer was not her future, and Cory was still her Toronto facilitator.”
Who cares, she’s a dirty Hollywood WHORE.