Meghan Markle did know who Prince Harry was when they met - because she was asked to pick between him and his brother in an interview less than a year before.
The highly-anticipated six-part Meghan & Harry docuseries has launched on Netflix - and airs exactly three months after the death of Harry's grandmother the late Queen.
At the start of the first episode, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex watch back an old interview of Meghan that was filmed a year before they met.
During the chat, the interviewer asks Meghan to pick between Prince William and Prince Harry, to which she shrugs and pauses before eventually choosing her future husband.
Harry leans forward giggling while saying "sure", as Meghan then asks the Netflix film maker what year the interview was.
When it's revealed it was from October 2015, Harry says it was less than a year before they met.
Meghan says: "Honey I'm sorry. Of course I choose you."
While Harry replies: "This just shows how little you knew. And look how far we've come."
The opening scenes of the first episode show an airport with a close-up of a departures sign while piano music plays over the footage.
It then cuts to Harry and words on the screen tell viewers he is in the Windsor Suite at Heathrow Airport in March 2020.
He appears to be filming himself speaking into his phone camera and says: "Hi. So we’re here on Wednesday the something of March.
"We’ve just finished our two weeks, our like final push, our last stint of royal engagements.
"It’s really hard to look back on it now and go ‘what on earth happened’? Like, how did we end up here?"
As Harry speaks, images of the couple flash on screen, followed by newspaper headlines and broadcasters’ audio from coverage about their decision to step back from royal life.
The first three episodes of Harry & Meghan landed on Netflix today, featuring emotional reality TV-style confessionals, unseen photos and a behind-the-scenes look at the couple's private lives.
The Sussexes signed lucrative deals thought to be worth more than £100 million with Netflix and Spotify after quitting the monarchy amid the Megxit crisis as they struggled with royal life.
They plunged the monarchy into crisis with their bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, while the Duke of Edinburgh was in hospital.
The duke and duchess accused an unnamed member of the family of racism towards their son Archie before he was born, and the institution of failing to help the suicidal duchess.
The couple quit as senior working royals in 2020 in favour of more freedom and the ability to earn their own money in the US.
Harry said he felt let down by his father and that "there's a lot of hurt that's happened" in their relationship. His longstanding rift with William has continued.
The brothers fell out over what Harry perceived to be William’s "snobbish" attitude to his bride, it was claimed.
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