Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.Photo: Courtesy of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex
Meghan Markleand Prince Harry are sharing their love story in their own words — and how they met over Instagram.
“I was scrolling through my feed and one of my friends and someone who was a friend had this video of the two of them, like a Snapchat,” Harry revealed in episode one of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s six-episode docuseries on Netflix, titledHarry & Meghan, premiered on Thursday.
In a twist, Harry then went on to reveal that Meghan had a dog face filter turned on for the image.
“I was like ‘who is THAT?!'” said Harry.
Meghan revealed that the unnamed friend then told her that “Prince Haz” had asked about her and suggested they meet.
“I said, who’s that?” Meghan revealed with a smile. “I asked if I could see his feed.”
“That, to me, was the best barometer,” she continued. “So I went through and it was just like beautiful photography and all these environmental shots, and this time he was spending in Africa.
The next day they swapped numbers.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on their wedding day.BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images
Speaking about the couple for the first time, Meghan’s close friend Lindsay Jill Roth described how the duchess “was just going to be free,” ahead of this chance encounter.
“[Meghan] had planned a single girl summer and she had a lot of plans of goin’ around Europe,” added Meghan’s other friend, Lucy Fraser.
“I had my plan… and then came H,” said Meghan. “I mean, talk about a plot twist!”
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In black and white scenes of theirMay 2018 wedding, the couple later went full circle with their love story and how they’ve both made huge personal sacrifices to stay together.
“She sacrificed everything that she ever knew, the freedom that she had to join me in my world,” said Harry.
“Then pretty soon after that, I ended up sacrificing everything that I know to join her in her world,” he continued about their Jan. 2020 decision tostep back from front-line royal dutiesand begin a new life in Montecito, California.
Although Meghan was based in Canada, where she was filming the showSuits, and Harry was in the U.K., they made their long-distance relationship work and never went more than two weeks without seeing each other.
The couple announced theirengagementin November 2017 and married in May 2018 at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle.
Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle announce their engagement.Chris Jackson/Chris Jackson/Getty
Meghan and Prince Harry signed amulti-year dealwith Netflix in September 2020. At the time,The New York Timesreported that the Sussex’s production hub, later named Archewell Productions, would exclusively create documentaries, docuseries, feature films, scripted shows and children’s programming for the popular platform.
TheHarry & Meghandocuseries comes from Oscar-nominated director Liz Garbus, whose previous celebrity-focused features includeLove, Marilyn, What Happened, Miss Simone?andBecoming Cousteau.
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According to Netflix, “the series explores the clandestine days of their early courtship and the challenges that led to them feeling forced to step back from their full-time roles in the institution. With commentary from friends and family, most of whom have never spoken publicly before about what they witnessed, and historians who discuss the state of the British Commonwealth today and the royal family’s relationship with the press, the series does more than illuminate one couple’s love story, it paints a picture of our world and how we treat each other.”
source: people.com
