Meghan Markle 'didn't have a clue' about what she was getting into with Prince Harry
20.03.2024 - 19:35
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Prince Harry had some words of warning for Meghan Markle long before they embarked on married life together. The couple first met in July 2016 - and went to great lengths to keep their romance under wraps.
As a Prince, Harry was aware of the level of scrutiny and public attention that any girlfriend would attract, reports the Mirror. He was so concerned about the impact such intrusion would have on the Suits actress, that he sat Meghan down to share his worries.
The couple opened up about their conversation when they sat down to give their post-engagement interview with the BBC's Mishal Husain in November 2017.
When Meghan was asked if she have a sense of the enormity of what she was getting into, she replied: "I think I can safely say, as naive as it sounds now, having gone through this learning curve in the past year and a half, that I did not have any understanding of just what it would be like. I think neither of us did.", reports the Mirror.
"I tried to warn you as much as possible," Harry then said to his bride-to-be.
"But I think both of us were totally surprised by the reaction after the first five or six months, of what actually happened after then. So you can have as many conversations as you want and try and prepare as much as possible but we were totally unprepared for what happened after that."
Meghan shared her thoughts on joining Royal life, saying: "There's a misconception that because I have worked in the entertainment industry that this is something I'd be familiar with, but even though I'd been on my show [Suits] for six years at that point and working before that, I'd never been part of tabloid culture, I've never been in pop culture to that degree.
"I lived a relatively quiet life even though I focused so