Meghan Markle showed she was "confident and independent" and certainly not a "blushing bride" with a four-word reply to Prince Charles which caught him off guard.
With the Duchesses' May 2018 wedding to Prince Harry looming, Meghan's father Thomas not attending and no invite for air force veteran uncle Michael, the Prince of Wales offered to walk her down the aisle of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Her reply was not quite what he expected: "Can we meet halfway?", she asked, according to a new biography of The Queen by Robert Hardman, serialised on MailOnline.