Meghan Markle wrote about her ‘girl crush’ Liz Hurley who starred in TV show about the Windsors 

Meghan Markle admitted she had a crush on Liz Hurley in 2015 when the British actress starred in the TV drama The Royals, it has been revealed.

Despite the Duchess of Sussex claiming to have known very little about the royal family before meeting Prince Harry, she wrote on her revamped blog The Tig, which she maintained for several years, admitting she was interested in the drama, which documents a family fictional British royal.

On the show, which aired on E! In the US, Liz Hurley stars as Queen Helena, a queen consort who has married into the royal family but is stunned when the soap opera-style show begins when her eldest son and heir to the throne, the Prince Robert, is assassinated.

Ahead of the show’s launch, Meghan, now 41, wrote in a 2015 post on her now-defunct blog that recently resurfaced that detailed her admiration for the actress, even conducting a mini-interview with her ahead of the actual drama.

Meghan’s interest in Liz, as well as her apparent enthusiasm for the show about a fictional monarchy, comes as the Duchess insists she only realized the British royal family was a “big deal” after meeting Prince Harry. .

In the $100 million Duke and Duchess Netflix docuseries Meghan & Harry, the former Suits actress claimed she knew very little about the British monarchy before she was introduced to her now-husband.

However, some may argue that her interest in the royal Liz Hurley series would have given the Duchess something of an education in how the British monarchy works, even if it were to take place in a fictional drama.

Meghan didn’t confirm in her blog post if she watched the drama or plans to do so in the future, however, she wrote: “I’ve always loved everything about Liz Hurley,” suggesting she’s a huge fan.

The Duchess of Sussex (pictured in October 2019) has repeatedly insisted that she knew very little about the royal family before meeting Prince Harry.

The Duchess revealed that she “had a relationship” with the British actress, as The Royals were set to debut on E!, a network that falls under the umbrella of NBC Universal, which also created Meghan’s Suits show.

However, even though the royal drama was Meghan’s pitch for a mini interview with Liz, she didn’t ask the actress any questions about the TV show or the royal family when she emailed her.

Instead, Liz revealed to Meghan that her nickname is ‘minx’, she loves vodka and that she can’t live without her son Damian, ‘hugs and laughter’.

It’s unclear from Meghan’s blog whether she knew much more about the royal family after her brush with the actress playing Queen Helena, but the duchess has repeatedly insisted over the years that she hardly knew anything about it. the royal family before marrying her.

Recalling the moment she met Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, for the first time in the Harry and Meghan documentary, she said: “I’m starting to realize now that this is a big deal.” I mean, the Americans will understand this. We have a Medieval Times dinner and tournament. It was like this, I bowed as if I was like… “Nice to meet you, Her Majesty.”

She added that Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank gave her words of comfort as she admitted she “had no idea what [she] I was doing’.

In another episode of the documentary, the Duchess revealed that she had to Google the British national anthem (which at the time was God Save the Queen) so she could practice singing it before appearing at any public event as a royal.

Before the documentary, in the Duke and Duchess’s explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, Meghan revealed that she didn’t grow up “knowing a lot about the royal family” and, in retrospect, feels she “naively got into it all.”

“I did not investigate anything about what [joining the royal family] it would mean,” she told the TV mogul, continuing: “I never looked up my husband online.