After just a few hours with Meghan Markle, Prince Harry knew he’d met someone special.
They shared their first two dates in just two days before jetting off to Botswana for their third romantic meeting, spending hours and hours talking about their lives and dreams.
Despite the excitement surrounding their new love, Harry admits in his memoir Spare that he wasn’t sure when he would be ready to let anyone else on their secret.
But he decided to tell Kate and William during a cosy night in at their Kensington Palace home. He shared the news after George and Charlotte had gone to bed, which was lucky as the future king’s reaction definitely wasn’t suitable for their little ears.
It turns out that Kate and Wills were huge fans of legal drama Suits, which Meghan starred in, so knew exactly who she was.
Harry writes that the explained there was a new woman in his life, but swore them to secrecy before giving them a name.
When he said she was an actress in Suits he claims their mouths “fell open” and that they turned to look at each other before William exclaimed “f*** off”.
He claims they didn’t believe him, saying it was “impossible” leaving Harry very confused.
He writes: “I was baffled until Willy and Kate explained they were regular - nay, religious - viewers of Suits.
“Great, I thought, laughing, I’ve been worried about the wrong thing. All this time I’d thought Willy and Kate might not welcome Meg into the famil, but now I had to worry about them asking her for an autograph.”
Despite the initial excitement, things between the two couples didn’t go as well as Harry hoped.
In an interview to promote Spare, Harry accused William and Kate of “stereotyping” Meghan - something he admits he was also guilty of.
Asked why the relationship got off on a bad note, Harry told ITV’s Tom Bradby there were "lots of different reasons".
He goes on: "I don’t think they were ever expecting me to get into a relationship with someone like Meghan, who had, you know, a very successful career.
"There was a lot of stereotyping that was happening, that I was guilty of as well, at the beginning."
Pushed on what he meant by that, Harry continues: "American actress, and that was playing out in the British press in the media at the time as well.
"I had that in the back of my mind, and some of the things that my brother and sister-in-law – some of the way that they were acting or behaving definitely felt to me as though unfortunately that stereotyping was causing a bit of a barrier to them really sort of, you know, introducing or welcoming her in."
Asked specifically what he means. Harry adds: "Well, American actress, divorced, biracial - there's all different parts to that and what that can mean but if you are, like a lot of my family do, if you are reading the press, the British tabloids, [Yeah] at the same time as living the life, then there is a tendency where you could actually end up living in the tabloid bubble rather than the actual reality."
