MEGHAN Markle boasted to pals about a “fellow she was dating from the UK” – before it was revealed the new flame was Prince Harry. The Duchess of Sussex met the royal on a blind date, with the couple starting to date in July 2016. Over the next whirlwind four years, Meghan and Harry would […]
MEGHAN Markle boasted to pals about a “fellow she was dating from the UK” – before it was revealed the new flame was Prince Harry.
The Duchess of Sussex met the royal on a blind date, with the couple starting to date in July 2016.
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Over the next whirlwind four years, Meghan and Harry would go on to get engaged and marry in a romantic ceremony at Windsor – welcoming baby Archie a year later before quitting the Royal Family and moving to America.
The couple are now living in LA – this week celebrating Meghan’s 39th birthday in coronavirus lockdown.
And in a sweet birthday message to the duchess, make-up mogul Bobbi Brown recounted how the former actress had told her about “a fellow” she had just started to date.
Sharing a photograph of herself smiling with Meghan, Bobbi wrote: “Happy Birthday to Meghan Markle who was such a joy to work with.
“Sweet, cool and so funny.
“At the time of the shoot she was telling me about a fellow she had just started to date from the UK. I didn’t ask who.
“Saw them again at a very special @sohohouseamsterdam birthday day. Sweet as always.”
Meghan and Harry had jetted off to Amsterdam in 2018 for a three-day party to celebrate the opening of private member’s club Soho House’s latest outpost.
At the time, it was reported the couple attended two parties with other high profile names.
Bobbi, who started her eponymous make-up line in 1990, had teamed up with Meghan in 2016 as part of a promotion with Uber to offer customers in New York and LA free touch-ups during their rides in 10 minutes or less.
Bobbi wasn’t the only one to wish Meghan a happy birthday, with well-wishes from the Royal Family flooding in on August 4.
The Sussexes have already celebrated one birthday in lockdown – releasing a sweet video of Meghan reading a book to son Archie to celebrate his first birthday.
And the contrast between this year’s birthday celebrations for Meghan couldn’t be more different to last year.
A year ago, she was a working member of the British royal family and living in the grounds of Windsor Castle with husband Harry and their son Archie.
Now, they are living in the Tyler Perry’s $18m mansion after breaking away from the Firm to live financially independently.
They have started to issue statements about equality and race, particularly after the death of George Floyd.
Meghan’s legal battle with the publishers of the Mail on Sunday has also continued to heat up with the Duchess winning the latest round in their High Court fight.
The Duchess of Sussex is suing Associated Newspapers (ANL), the publisher of the Mail on Sunday, after a “private” letter she sent to her estranged father Thomas Markle, 76, was revealed.
She claims publishing the letter was an “invasion of her privacy” but ANL says its existence was already in the public domain after being discussed in an anonymous interview given by five of her pals to People Magazine.
And yesterday, Justice Warby ruled that the pals’ identities would remain a secret.
