Part 3 of 12
[Blues guitar music playing]
[LONDON, July 2016]
[Music: Pretty words come so easy
They're no good...]
[Harry] Meghan and I met in July of 2016.
[Meghan] Right before we met, we'd gotten another season of the show Suits.
["SUITS"]
I was single for a couple of months. I was like, "This is it. We're gonna travel."
"Come on, girls. Let's go."
[Music: Oh, stop
Don't worry about it
Oh, stop...]
[Lindsay Jill Roth, Friend] In the summer of 2016, she had a few different trips planned
and she was just going to be free.
[Meghan] I was really, like, intent on being single,
and just have fun girl-time.
[Music: Seven days a week, you had ...]
[Lucy Fraser, Friend] She had planned her single-girl summer
and she had a lot of plans of going around Europe.
[Meghan] I had a career, I had my life...
I had my path.
[sighing deeply] And then came H.
I mean, he literally...
Talk about a plot twist.
[Music: Stop, stop, stop, don't worry about it
Oh, stop]
[Harry] Meghan and I met over Instagram.
I was scrolling through my feed and, uh, someone who was a friend
had this video of the two of them.
It was like a Snapchat.
[Meghan] Oh, gosh. That whole thing... There's like, dog ears ...
[Harry] With dog ears and ---
[Meghan] That's what he saw of me.
[Harry] I was like, "Who is that?"
[Meghan] It's ridiculous!
[soft instrumental music playing]
To: M
Subject: Hey x
Monday is going to be so much fun
Between you and I thought you might want to know this being newly single and all. I put our snapchat on Instagram and Prince Haz follows me (has a friend) he called me last night dying to meet you. Hehehe I might just have to set you up
[Meghan] And then she sent me an email saying,
"I know you said you're single, and a friend of mine asked about you,
and maybe you'd like to meet him."
And I said, "Who is it?" She said, "Prince Haz." I said, "Who's that?"
From: M
Subject: Rey: hey x
Who is prince haz???
Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse all technological mishaps. I'm a Luddite
[Meghan] I asked if I could see his feed.
When people say, "Did you Google him?" No.
But I... That's your homework. You're like, "Hmm."
Let me see what they're about in their feed.
Not what someone else says about them,
but what they are putting out about themselves."
That, to me, was the best barometer.
I went through it and it was just like beautiful photography
and all these environmental shots and this time he was spending in Africa...
[Harry] Phew! [Wipes his hand across his forehead]
Then we got each other's numbers. We were just constantly in touch,
and I went, "Let's meet."
[WIMBLEDON, 2016]
[Meghan] I was in London. I was going to Wimbledon.
[Jill Smoller, Friend] We were sitting in the Player Box
and it's diagonal to the Royal Box at Wimbledon.
We were talking about different dates and different people that were possibilities,
and I remember seeing an adorable actor in the front row sitting next to someone I knew.
And I'm like, "Hey, how about him?"
Um, and then I think the next day,
I found out that she was gonna be going on a date with H.
[Silver Tree, Friend] Meghan texted me from London
and said, "Silver, you're not gonna believe this."
And basically to me that she was going out on a date with him,
and we thought it was really funny.
We were like, "In what world does this happen? [laughing]
H
So come on -- what u doing tomorrow night? Hope you're Having fun over there!
M
Heading back to soho. I have a dinner tomorrow at 8 but can do drinks tomorrow night. Would that work? Maybe 6?
H
You're ON!
[instrumental music playing]
[Meghan] We met at 76 Dean Street.
[To Harry] You were late.
[Harry] Mm-hmm.
[Meghan] And I couldn't understand why he would be late.
But he kept texting me. He was like, "I'm in traffic. I'm so sorry."
[Harry] I was panicking. I was freaking out. I was, like, sweating.
[Meghan] And I didn't know him.
So I was like, "Oh, is this what he does? Got it.
Like, this I'm not doing.
[Harry] What? What is that supposed to mean?
[Meghan] One of those guys who have so much of an ego that you're not gonna...
That any girl would sit around and wait for a half hour for you.
I was just not interested in that.
[Harry] And then when I walked in, I...
A hot, sweaty, red ball of --
[Meghan] He was so sweet!
[Harry] She's like, "Oh, that's not...
That's not what you are."
[Meghan] That's not what you are.
You genuinely were, like, so embarrassed and late and...
[Music: Though I'm not a great romancer ...]
[Meghan] He was just so fun.
Just so refreshingly fun.
And that was the thing, we were like childlike together.
[Harry] [Nods his head yes.]
[Music: Anything goes...]
[We had a great chat for about an hour.
[Music: Anything goes...]
[Meghan] I left after an hour,
and, um, I told him that I had other plans.
And then I, um, called him that evening
and I was like, "I'm leaving the day after tomorrow."
"Do you wanna grab dinner tomorrow night?"
And I'm sure he thought it was so forward and American.
I'm sure he told me it was so forward and American.
[soft music playing]
Then, yeah. We went and had dinner the next night at the same place.
[Harry] [Whispering] She was late!
[Meghan] I what? I what?
[Harry] That's when you were late.
[Meghan] I was late?
[Harry] Yeah.
Remember? You came rushing in from having a shower.
[Meghan] From Wimbledon.
[Harry] Yeah. There you go.
[Meghan] Yeah.
[Harry] Not half an hour.
[Meghan] No, no, no. Like five, like--
[Harry] A mere few minutes.
[Meghan] Yeah.
[Harry] But you were quite flustered.
[Meghan] I hate being late.
[Harry] [Laughs]
[Meghan] Well, I had come back from Wimbledon and,
you know, you get all dolled up...
and I just wanted to go home and take a shower
and then run over looking more like myself.
[Harry] I was like,
I don't ... You could be as late as you want, cause I ain't moving.
I wanna see you again.
[Music: I'm in the mood...]
[Meghan] There was one photo. We just wanted to capture the feeling
of just sitting in that little restaurant and going, "Oh my gosh."
"I think we're gonna give it a go."
[Music: Honey, but when you're near me...]
[Harry] That was when it just hit me. I was like, "Okay, this girl, this woman is amazing,
is everything that I've been looking for.
And she's so comfortable and so relaxed in my company."
[Meghan] He had a list, apparently, of what he was looking for.
[Harry] Let's not go there.
[Meghan] An extensive list.
[Interviewer] What were a few things on that list?
[Harry] Not sharing the list.
[Meghan] Okay.
[Harry] Good... Nice try.
[Meghan] [Laughs]
[Harry] [Sweeping his hand up and down Meghan] This is the list.
[Meghan] Good answer.
[instrumental music playing]
[Silver] She texted me after
and she was just like, "Silver, I'm crazy about him."
[Ignacio "Nacho" Figueras, Friend] Right after they'd met, my wife, me and him, we had dinner together
and he sat like that, he looked at us and he said, "Guys, I met a girl."
"We've just met, but, um, I think this may be the one."
You could tell right away
that those were the eyes of someone that had fallen in love.
[Lucy] It was apparent to both of them very quickly that
they wanted it to be something and they needed to figure that out.
[Lindsay] I mean, she was giddy.
But I also know that she was trying to live in the moment.
She wanted to just get to know him for him.
Not for who the public thought he was.
[Harry] I think, for so many people in the family, especially obviously the men,
there can be a temptation or an urge to marry someone
who would fit the mold,
as opposed to somebody who you perhaps are destined to be with.
The difference between making decisions with your head, or your heart.
And my mum certainly made most of her decisions, if not all of them, from her heart.
And I AM my mother's son.