Meghan Markle's one word response to meeting Princess Kate for the first time

Meghan Markle had a one-word comment to make about her first meeting with the Princess of Wales. The Duchess of Sussex may be estranged from her royal in-laws now after she and her husband, Prince Harry, stepped down as senior working royals in 2020, but her relationship with them wasn't always so frosty.

Meghan started dating Harry in 2016, but it wasn't long until he popped the question in 2017, with the couple getting married one year later. After their engagement in 2017, the Sussexes gave an interivew to the BBC, where they described Meghan's first meeting with the Prince and Princess of Wales. Harry told Mishal Hussein: "It was exciting I mean I've - you know I'd been seeing her for a period of time when I literally didn't tell anybody at all.

"And then William was longing to meet her and so was Catherine, so you know, being our neighbours, we managed to get that in a couple of - well, quite a few times now, and Catherine has been absolutely..."

To which Meghan commented: "Wonderful."

Elsewhere, while the Duchess may have now made various claims about how "unsupportive" the "institution" was during her time as a working royal, she has always praised the late monarch, Queen Elizabeth, for being an "incredible woman".

She said: "I think, you know, to be able to meet her through his lens, not just with his honour and respect for her as the monarch, but the love that he has for her as his grandmother.

"All of those layers have been so important for me so that when I met her I had such a deep understanding and of course incredible respect for being able to have that time with her. And we've had a really - she's - she's an incredible woman."

A few years later, in 2022, Meghan talked about her first meeting with the Waleses again during her and Prince Harry's Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan.

She said: "When Will and Kate came over, and I met her for the first time, they came over for dinner, I remember I was in ripped jeans and I was barefoot.

"I was a hugger. I've always been a hugger, I didn't realise that that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.

"I guess I started to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside.

"There is a forward-facing way of being, and then you close the door and go 'You can relax now', but that formality carries over on both sides. And that was surprising to me."