When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle first met, it all seemed like one big fairytale, didn’t it? We’ve all watched them defy royal traditions, welcome two children and step down as senior royals. You don’t have to like Meghan Markle to understand she’s had a horrible time of it, so here’s a complete relationship timeline of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle:
July 2016: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are set up on a blind date
In July 2016, a mutual friend set Prince Harry and Meghan up on a blind date at Soho House’s Dean Street Townhouse. In their first interview as a couple, Meghan told the BBC in 2017 that she didn’t know much about Prince Harry or the royal family before their date.
She said: “Because I’m from the States, you don’t grow up with the same understanding of the royal family. I didn’t know much about him, so the only thing that I had asked our mutual friend when she said that she wanted to set us up was, ‘Well, is he nice?’ Because if he wasn’t kind, it just didn’t seem like it would make sense.”
In an interview with James Corden on his talk show in February 2021, Prince Harry recounted how quickly things got serious between himself and Meghan in their first two months of dating. He said he thought she was “pretty special” on the second date. Prince Harry told James Corden: “Dating with me, or with any member of the royal family I guess, is kind of flipped upside down. All the dates become dinners or watching the TV or…
