Kim Kardashian has said photos showing Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry at Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday party were deleted from social media out of respect for the UK’s period of national remembrance in November, after what she described as an “innocent” misunderstanding about whether the images should be shared.
Speaking on her sister Khloé Kardashian’s podcast, Khloé in Wonder Land, Kardashian addressed what the family referred to as “Photogate”, a burst of online speculation that followed the removal of images from Instagram posts celebrating Jenner’s birthday bash, which was held on Saturday 8 November 2025 at the Beverly Hills home of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.
“It was really innocent, which is so crazy,” Kardashian said on the podcast, according to People magazine’s account of the episode. She said Jenner and Meghan had a longstanding friendship, adding: “Mom and Meghan have been friends for some years now, and they have a really sweet relationship.”
Kardashian said the family had been reviewing photographs from the evening and selecting images to post online when they believed sharing the Sussexes’ photos was acceptable. “We were told that it was totally cool to post,” she said. She then described a change of judgement after the posts went live, connecting it to Remembrance Day observances in the UK: “And then after it was posted, I think they realized it was Remembrance Day, and they didn’t want to be seen at a party, even though it’s already up, you know, and then taken down. And then I think they realized, like, ‘Oh, this was so silly.’”
Remembrance commemorations in the UK culminate in services at war memorials across the country and a national ceremony at the Cenotaph in London, where the National Service of Remembrance is held on the Sunday nearest to 11 November. In 2025, the national service took place on Sunday 9 November.
Kardashian said the decision to remove the images was intended to avoid the couple being perceived as partying during a solemn period, while acknowledging they had attended a high-profile charity engagement the same evening. “She added that although they had been seen at the Baby2Baby charity gala the same night, ‘that was fine, but maybe not partying and dancing on the dance floor or whatever,’” People reported. Kardashian then summed up the family’s rationale: “So we took them down to respect Remembrance Day.”
The Sussexes’ attendance at Jenner’s party came after they appeared at the Baby2Baby Gala in West Hollywood on 8 November 2025, an annual fundraising event supporting children living in poverty, where Serena Williams was honoured. People reported that the couple later went on to Jenner’s party, arriving “hand-in-hand and looked very happy.”
The deletion of the Instagram photos prompted competing accounts in the days that followed. People reported at the time that a source close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said the couple “didn’t agree to have photos of them taken inside the party” shared, and had checked “no” on a photo consent form, leading to the images being removed after they were posted. A separate source close to the event disputed that account, telling People: “There were no consent forms.”
In her comments on the podcast, Kardashian framed the episode as an example of how quickly online narratives can spiral. “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,” she said, according to People. “That sucks. It was just made into something that was so crazy and ridiculous that just didn’t have to be.”
Kardashian also described proposing a tongue-in-cheek response in which the family would lean into the controversy as a marketing-style joke. “You got to laugh at, like, the situation sometimes and just, like, lighten it up and be if everyone’s taking it the wrong way, like, lean in,” she said. She added: “We should do a full Skims campaign.” Kardashian then described a hypothetical scenario of posting and deleting a photo for a staged campaign, before joking that she would later claim she did not have permission to post it.
People said it had contacted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for comment. Neither the Sussexes nor representatives for Kardashian were quoted as giving additional statements beyond the podcast remarks described in the report.
