LIFESTYLE NEWS - Just four weeks after a blind date with US actress Meghan Markle that left him “beautifully surprised”, Britain’s Prince Harry took his wife-to-be on a trip to Botswana to camp under the stars in his tent.
Harry, 33, Queen Elizabeth’s grandson and fifth-in-line to the British throne, and Markle, 36, best known for her role in the US TV legal drama Suits, got engaged this month at their cottage in London over a roast chicken dinner.
In their first broadcast interview since announcing the news earlier on Monday, Harry and Markle held hands as they discussed the moment of their proposal and their courtship.
“It was just an amazing surprise. It was so sweet and natural, and very romantic. He got on one knee,” Markle said. “I could barely let you finish proposing. I said,” can I say yes now?”
Harry said that he had not watched the show which made Markle’s name, and Markle too was relatively unfamiliar with Britain’s royal family before meeting Harry.
“I had never watched Suits, I had never heard of Meghan before and I was beautifully surprised when I walked into that room and saw her. I was like, ‘OK well I‘m going to have to really up my game here’,” Harry said.
“It was I think about three maybe four weeks later that I managed to persuade her to come and join me in Botswana and we camped out with each other under the stars.”
Harry and Markle, who is a divorcee, met in July 2016 after they were introduced through a friend who set them up on a blind date.
But it was not until September that they made their first public appearance together at the Invictus Games in Toronto, a sports event for wounded veterans.
They are due to marry in the spring of next year.
“The fact that I fell in love with Meghan so incredibly quickly was confirmation to me that all the stars were aligned, everything was just perfect,” Harry said.
“This beautiful woman just tripped and fell into my life, I fell into her life.”
