Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were at a party when their lives changed forever, the duke revealed in his memoir.
In Spare, originally released in 2023, Harry spoke about when his relationship with Meghan, 43, was about to be revealed to the world.
Before then, the couple had been dating in secret, with the prince adamant about keeping their love life out of the papers, which he believed could have been the downfall of his past relationships.
However, his ambition to keep Meghan out of the press was over when they received a call at a Halloween party in 2016.
According to The Mirror, in the biography Finding Freedom, authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand said the couple was having the “perfect” evening at a party in Soho with Princess Eugenie before they found out their lives were set to change forever.
The authors wrote: “Some four months into their relationship, they were madly in love and eager to take part in the fun of one of their favourite holidays.
“The evening of October 29, with Harry in town, the couple decided to go to a big costume party being thrown at Soho House in Toronto.
“A cocktail or so into the party, they were both feeling relaxed, absorbing the Halloween spirit. It was possibly the perfect night out – until they received a call from one of Harry’s aides at Kensington Palace. It wasn’t good news.”
The duke, who quit life as a senior royal in 2020 and blamed press intrusion as one reason, also shared the moment he found out his relationship was about to be hurled into the public eye in Spare.
He wrote: “Well, we said, staring anxiously at our phones, it was going to happen eventually.
“In fact, we’d had a heads-up that it was likely to happen that day. We’d been tipped, before heading off to the Halloween Apocalypse, that another apocalypse might be coming. More proof that the universe had a wicked sense of humour.”
A year after their relationship was announced, the couple confirmed their engagement in November 2017.
They then married in Windsor in 2018.
