Joining the royals. Amid Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s early courtship, she impressed his regal family members — including his father, King Charles III.The Duke of Sussex introduced his father — who succeeded Queen Elizabeth II as monarch in September 2022 — to the Suits alum in November 2016 after nearly five months together.“I’d call the visit a coming-out party,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly at the time, noting the then-dating couple attended a birthday bash for Harry at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. “It would have been the first time some of his close friends got to meet her.
It’s been important for Harry to introduce Meghan to the people he cares about.”Harry and Meghan eventually got engaged nearly one year later at their Nottingham Cottage residence.“I wanted to do it earlier, because I had to ask permission from my grandmother, [Queen Elizabeth II],” the Invictus Games cofounder recalled of his proposal during the second episode of the couple’s Harry & Meghan docuseries, which premiered in December 2022. “I couldn’t do it outside of the U.K.”He added: “I did pop a bottle of champagne while she was roasting the chicken, and that kind of slightly gave the game away.
She was like, ‘You don’t drink champagne, what’s the occasion?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know, just had it lying around, whatever.’”Ahead of Harry and the Duchess of Sussex’s royal wedding, news broke that Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, would not attend the big day or walk his daughter down the aisle. (The former lighting director had been accused of staging paparazzi photos weeks before the ceremony.) Instead, Meghan asked the former Prince of Wales to escort her to the altar.“Prince Charles was very touched to be asked by Meghan to walk her down
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