Footage of Meghan Markle curtseying in her role on Suits has surfaced online, after she claimed she didn't know how to do one in the much talked about Netflix docuseries.
08.12.2022 - 23:05 / usmagazine.com
Putting on a show? Meghan Markle recalled feeling like a fish out of water while curtsying in front of Queen Elizabeth II for the first time.
“My grandmother was the first senior member of the royal family that Meghan met,” Prince Harry explained during the second episode of Netflix’s Harry & Meghan documentary series, which premiered on Thursday, December 8. “She had no idea what it all consisted of, so it was a bit of a shock to the system for her.”
Meghan, 41, agreed with her husband, calling the encounter with the late royal “surreal.” The Suits alum revealed that she only found out about the meeting as she and Harry, 38, were on the way to the Royal Lodge in Windsor, England, for lunch in 2017.
“There wasn’t some big moment of like, ‘And now you’re going to meet my grandmother,’” she recalled. “I remember being in the car and he was like, ‘you know how to curtsey right?’ and I just thought it was a joke.”
As Meghan got closer to the royal family’s estate, she realized “this is a big deal.” The Bench author, however, wasn’t fully prepared to curtsy in real time.
“Americans will understand this, we have Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament. It was like that,” she joked. “Like, I curtsied as if I was [bowing down to the floor].”
Meghan gestured to just low she curtsied noting that once she popped up, she said, “Pleasure to meet you, Your Majesty” and thought, “Was that OK?”
The California native, who married Harry in May 2018, added: “It was so intense. I didn’t know what I was doing.”
The prince, for his part, had no idea how to “explain” the protocol to his then-girlfriend. “How do you explain that you bow to your grandmother? And that you will need to curtsy, especially to an American,” he told the cameras. “That’s weird.”
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