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Meeting your partner’s family for the first time can be an extremely uncomfortable and uncomfortable situation, which is probably amplified when they are the Royal Family.
Prince Harry has revealed that the Duchess of Sussex, 41, went to meet her relatives, somewhat unprepared.
The 38-year-old Duke of Sussex has recalled the moment Meghan Markle met her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, and mistook Prince Andrew for her assistant.
Writing in his Memoir Spare, which went on sale Monday, Harry documented his wife’s first meeting with the Queen at the Royal Lodge, in October 2016.
In his memoir Spare, Prince Harry recalled the first time Meghan Markle (left) met her grandmother The Queen (right) at the Royal Lodge in 2016.
He wrote: After a moment, Meg asked me something about the Queen’s attendant. I asked her who she was talking about.
“That man who was holding the bag. That man who walked her to the door. Wasn’t that her assistant? Who was it?”
Harry quickly pointed out that he was, in fact, her uncle, telling Meghan: “That was his second child.” Andrew.’
He wrote: “She definitely hadn’t googled us.”
The Duke of Sussex recalls how Meghan initially believed Prince Andrew (left) was the queen’s aide
Harry (right) quickly corrected his boyfriend, telling him he was not a wizard but the Queen’s “second son”. Andrew’ (left)
This isn’t the first time the Duchess of Sussex’s knowledge of the royal family has been scrutinized.
During the couple’s Netflix documentary series, which aired last month, Meghan mockingly appeared to mock her own efforts to follow royal protocol as she recounted the ‘surreal’ moment she first met the Queen, performing a deeply exaggerated bow in front of an awkward-looking face. husband, Prince Harry.
The Duchess of Sussex compared her first meeting with Her Majesty to a lowbrow themed dinner in America’s ‘Medieval Times’.
Recounting the ‘intense’ moment, she curtsied deeply as her husband Harry watched, stone-faced, before he looked off camera and looked uncomfortable. The couple then chuckled afterwards.
During the couple’s documentary series, Meghan laughed at her first meeting with the queen and took an exaggerated curtsy in front of her awkward-looking husband, Prince Harry.
The Duchess of Sussex compared her first meeting with Her Majesty to a lowbrow themed dinner in America’s ‘Medieval Times’.
During the Netflix series, Meghan appeared to mock her own efforts to follow royal protocol as she recounted the ‘surreal’ moment she met the Queen.
Meghan first met the Queen over lunch at the Royal Lodge in Windsor, shortly after she and the Duke revealed they were dating, in 2016.
But he said the entire occasion felt like an old-fashioned banquet at Medieval Times, a family-friendly dinner theater in the US that features medieval-style games, sword fighting and jousting.
The Queen was the first senior member of the Royal Family that Meghan met after she and Prince Harry announced their relationship in 2016.
“She had no idea what it was all about,” Harry told the docu-series, as he sat with his arm around his wife. “So it was a bit of a shock to the system for her.”
Harry wrote in his memoir that Meghan had clearly not looked up to the Royal Family before meeting the Queen and Prince Andrew (both pictured).
Smiling, Meghan added: ‘I mean. It’s surreal. There wasn’t a big “Now you’re going to meet my grandmother” moment.
‘I didn’t know I was going to meet her until moments before. We were in the car and we were going to lunch at the Royal Lodge, and he [Harry] It was like, “Oh, my grandma’s here, she’ll be there after church.”
“I remember we were in the car, driving and he’s [Harry] like, “You know how to curtsy, right?” And I thought it was a joke.
The duke continued: ‘How do you explain that to people? How do you explain that you bow to your grandmother? And that you would need to curtsy, especially to an American. That’s weird.’
Meghan revealed in the docu-series that she didn’t know she was meeting the Queen and thought Harry was joking when he told her she would have to curtsy.
Meghan later tells the documentary: ‘Now I’m starting to realize that this is a big deal. I mean, the Americans will understand this. We have a Medieval Times dinner and tournament. It was just like that, I bowed as if I was like… “Nice to meet you, Her Majesty.”
‘It was so intense. And then when she’s gone, Eugenie, Jack and Fergie say “you did great!”. Thanks. She didn’t know what she was doing.
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