In April 2025, reports were dispersed on the Web that the first lady of Ukraine acquired from the wife of Prince Harry the outfit, who once wore his mother. The purchase price supposedly amounted to almost $ 3 million. We checked the authenticity of this story.
April 25 Telegram channel "Sanya in Florida”(465,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) said:“ Zelensky’s wife bought from Meghan Markle a dress, which used to belong to Princess Diana. The cost of the new thing is $ 2.9 million. The sale occurred during the visit of Prince Harry to Lviv in early April. Officially, it was a humanitarian visit, but sources close to the royal family indicate that the trip had another, commercial motivation. Experts explain the sale by the belief financial position of the Duke and the Duchess of Sussex. The ratings of their show on Netflix are falling, and the chances of extending the contract are small. And Zelenskaya seems to be glad to become closer to the royal family. She previously Spended In the British parliament and went to the coronation of Charles III. ” The publication was accompanied by a short video.
According to the TGSTAT service, more than 240 Russian -language posts on the purchase of Zelenskaya appeared in Telegram, in total such records scored about 2.2 million views. The channels wrote about this "Uncle Glory"(159,000 views),"Putin in Telegram"(154,000),"Russia now"(150 000), Zergulio (131 000), "Mordor's voice"(105,000),"Sheikh Tamir"(103,000),"Kirill Fedorov / War History Weapons"(94,000),"The goat screamed"(88 000) and"Tsargrad-TV"(84 000). Similar publications are found in "VKontakte" X, "Classmates" And Livejournalas well as on Rutube and sites News.ru, "South Federal" And "Podolyaka". Such messages were also encircled in English: for example, in the X posts of users Concerned Citizen (@Bgatesisapyscho), Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) and Johnny Midnight (@its_The_DR) scored 8.3 million, 6.6 million and 4.6 million views, respectively.
At least three slightly different versions of the viral video are spread. In two records of the record, English subtitles are presented, and in the third, the Russian -speaking text is imposed on top of them. The duration also varies: the longest video goes a little more than 2 minutes, the shortest one is 74 seconds. Behind the frame is a male voice that says in English:
"Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, at the beginning of this month applied Nonannic visit to Ukraine. This step not only surprised the public, but also upset the members of the British royal family (by rumorsThis saddened Prince William. It is reported that Prince Harry's elder brother got angry with officials who refused him a similar trip. - approx. Ed.). Initially, his visit was presented as a humanitarian action to support the victims of war and protect the wounded veterans. However, new information gave rise to assumptions that Harry's trip was a secondary, private goal.
According to sources close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle recently sold a cult "The dress of revenge"Princess Diana of the first lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya for a stunning amount of $ 2.9 million. A black silk cocktail dress, wrapped in Diana in 1994 on the very evening when Prince Charles admitted In infidelity, one of the most recognizable symbols of royal disobedience and personal rebirth.
Insiders claim that the sale was partially due to financial considerations. Meghan Markle contract with Netflix It is expiring in 2025, and the heads of the streaming giant are not too enthusiastic reviews About her new culinary show (meaning "With love, Megan". - approx. Ed.). And Prince Harry recently He left From the affairs of the Sentebale charity organization due to the deterioration of its financial condition.
The royal family expert Richard Fitzuyillams suggests that the sale of Princess Diana’s dresses can be another undressed Megan attack on her husband’s relatives: “This, of course, is clear revenge, and very unpleasant - especially in relation to William, in relation to King Charles.” The Duchess of Sussex previously argued that in the Buckingham Palace there has long been a conspiracy directed against it, and that she feels like a scapegoat (this is a retelling Quote Lawyer Markle and her girlfriend. - approx. Ed.).
"Dress of revenge" Princess Diana was originally sold At a charity auction in 1997. It was acquired by the Scottish couple, and for many years the outfit was stored in the banking storage, until in 2019 Meghan Markle was donated as a symbolic gesture, since the press often in Megan Compared With Diana.
A copy of the dress is still on public display in the Museum of the Icon of style in Ireland. Although the motives of Elena Zelenskaya to acquire the "dress of revenge" Princess Diana remain unclear, the purchase can be considered as part of her strategy to converge with the British royal family. In 2023 Zelenskaya I visited Coronation of Charles III, and in 2024 She said About the proximity to Queen Camille after an audience in Klarens House. ”
Throughout the viral video in its upper right corner, the logo of the British tabloid The Sun. This publication is also mentioned in the video itself: for example, there is demonstrated cover one of the newspaper numbers for 1994 and screenshot Articles, posted on the tabloid website in 2025. However, in none of the publications given at the beginning of this analysis, a reference to the source is given, but “verified” did not find a similar video either site The Sun, not in his social networks.
Authoritative English -language media did not write about the alleged expensive purchase of Zelenskaya. Nevertheless News.ru Without a link to the source, it claims that the Nation reported about this story. One would think that we are talking about the American magazine, but about the sale of Princess Diana's dress on April 24 wrote The site of the Nigerian of the same name newspapers (Thenationallineng.net). On the same day, a similar note was released on the Independent website, but not a British, but another Nigerian edition (Independent.ng). Moreover, on The Nation is standing next to the heading Mark Sponsored Post, that is, the material about the first lady of Ukraine was published there on a paid basis. This Nigerian edition has already been mentioned in another analysis “Verified”: in 2023 they wrote there that during a visit to New York Zelenskaya spent more than $ 1 million on jewelry, but the news turned out to be a fake.
As for the primary source of the viral video, its earliest appearance (among the publications that traveled “verified”) took place on the social network X, where it was placed on April 24 at 19:04 Moscow time by the user mentioned at the beginning of the analysis @Bgatesisapyscho. A almost two -minute video was given in his tweet, and 10 minutes later after 10 minutes. The mentioned above @its_The_DR. Both users support pro -Kremlin narratives and already mentioned In our materials as distributors Fakes. In Runet, the video was first told the Telegram channels that Fine Familiar Our regular readers: ""The goat screamed"(April 24 at 20:13, 74-second version) and"Mordor's voice"(April 25 at 14:01, a full version with Russian subtitles).
There are other signs of falsification in the video. So, a factor from the Lead Stories project found outthat the quote from the commentator in the affairs of the British royal family of Richard Fitzuyillams was cut out of the video interview, which he gave the GB News channel back in 2022. Then he shared his opinion about the show entered on Netflix "Harry and Megan", And not about the purchase of the dress of Princess Diana, which Zelenskaya allegedly made two and a half years later.
In an interview with Lead Stories, Fitzuyillms called the fake video a disassembled and said that The Sun never took him a comment for such a publication. “This is a particularly terrible feature of today's world that such a disgusting fake with a video that The Sun never published, and my comment taken from another source may appear on the Web. The tasteless of its content speaks for itself. It is unfortunate that they cannot be sued against the perpetrators in such an outrageous act, ”said Fitzuyillas.
Elizabeth Morton, the head of the communications department The Sun, in the letter of Lead Stories also confirmed that fake video is distributed with the tabloid logo on the network.
A black dress that Zelenskaya allegedly bought, Developed Greek designer Christina Istanbolyan. At the end of June 1994, Princess Diana I put it on Its for a charity dinner organized by Vanity Fair magazine in the Serpentine Gallery in London. Countsthat the Princess of Wales chose this frank outfit in revenge to her husband Prince Charles (now King Charles III) - shortly before that, he publicly admitted to treason. In 1997, a dress in New York was at a auction sold For more than £ 39,000. It was acquired by the Scottish businessman Graham McCanzi, who, together with his wife, planned to use the exhibit at charity events to collect donations.
Since then, the press has not had reports that the dress has passed Markle. On the contrary, some resources Reportthat Mackenzie still owns this outfit, which is stored in a bank safe. However, expensive rarity still appeared in public at times to raise funds for charity. At the same time, the viral video states that the museum of the icon of style in the Irish Newbridge contains a copy of the dress. According to site Museum and posts In his social networks, the sign exhibit has been exhibited there since 2012. For example, in 2017 he became Part of the exhibition "Diana: Fashion Heritage", dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the death of the princess. Back in 2010, Istanbolyans (according to designer, from boredom) Created The replica of the outfit, and the next year the copy was sold at auction for £ 18,000. According to the articles of the magazine Hello! and tabloid The Daily Mail, it is this duplicate that is stored in the Irish Museum. However, the institution itself declaresthat exposed only the originals.
Thus, the first lady of Ukraine did not buy from Meghan Markle a dress that belonged to Princess Diana. The proof of this story was the publication on African news sites, one of which exactly did it for money, as well as a video with the logo of the tabloid The Sun, whose representative called the video a fake. The expert, whose words were shown on the record, also stated that the video was fabricated. This fake is another link in a long chain false messages About expensive purchases of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, his family and environment.
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