Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been on a hell of a journey since they started dating back in 2016.
The early stages of the couple’s relationship have been kept largely under wraps due to the secrecy of their encounters.
But the Sussexes later opened up about how they met when they sat down with the BBC for an interview in November 2017.
Meghan recalled the adorable way in which Harry proposed to her.
She said: “It was just so sweet and natural and very romantic. He got on one knee. As a matter of fact, I could barely let [him] finish proposing. I was like, ‘Can I say yes now?”
Harry popped the question while they were at home making a chicken dinner together.
However, these remarks from Meghan were raised in the Sussexes’ Netflix series, released in 2022.
Meghan branded the interview with the BBC an “orchestrated reality show” and ‘”rehearsed.”
She added: “So we did the thing out with the Press, then we went right inside, took the coat off, and did the interview, so it was all in that same moment.
“But then also like, ‘and then there’ll be a moment when they’ll ask to see the ring’. My point is we weren’t allowed to tell our story because they didn’t want…”
Harry then said: “Well, we’ve never been allowed to tell our story…That’s the consistency.”
Mishal Hussain, the journalist who interviewed Harry and Meghan, questioned their version of events after royal fans became suspicious.
She said: “We know recollections may vary on this particular subject, but my recollection is definitely very much: asked to do an interview and do said interview.” Some years later, she spoke to Saga magazine about the incident. “When the Duchess of Sussex said that my engagement interview with her and Harry was an ‘orchestrated reality show’, I didn’t know what to make of it.
“They seemed to have thought through what their new lives would be like and what marriage would mean for her life in particular.”
Lord Hall, then-director general of the BBC, added that Meghan’s allegations were “simply untrue.”
He continued: “Mishal is not easily riled, to put it mildly, so this is a notable intervention.”
Eagle-eyed royal fans spotted a number of inconsistencies with Harry and Meghan’s comments.
One example was how the Sussexes claimed they had met on a blind date. But in the Netflix series, Harry said they met on Instagram.
In the BBC interview, Meghan also said: “Because I’m from the States, you don’t grow up with the same understanding of the Royal Family,” she said.
“I didn’t know much about him and so the only thing that I had asked her when she said she wanted to set us up was — I had one question. I said, ‘Well, is he nice?”’
But a photo later resurfaced of Meghan posing outside Buckingham Palace with her friend Ninaki Priddy when she was just 15.
