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Emma Shacklock

'This woman… My God' - Prince Harry's response to seeing Meghan for the first time before they’d even had their first date

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle smile and look at each other during an official photocall to announce their engagement at The Sunken Gardens, Kensington Palace on November 27, 2017.

Prince Harry has taken a very different path in life to his big brother Prince William and this also applies to how he first met his wife. There was no friendship-turned-romance at university to bring the Sussexes together like Kate and William. Instead, Harry hadn’t even met Meghan, let alone asked her on a date, when he first laid eyes on her.

Writing in his best-selling memoir, Spare, the King’s younger son recounted how he came across a video of a mystery woman whilst scrolling through Instagram in 2016. This woman was, of course, Meghan Markle and she was in the clip with Harry’s friend Violet von Westenholz.

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