Prince Harry and Meghan went on first date in London 2016 (Photo: BackGrid/Disney)
Prince Harry revealed he smoked a spliff and watched a Disney film after his first date with Meghan Markle.
The couple first met in London in 2016 after which Harry met with a friend to tell him all about the date.
After Harry ‘barged into his house off the King’s Road’, the pair started drinking and put on a film.
‘Out came the tequila. Out came the weed. We drank and smoked and watched… Inside Out,’ he wrote in highly-anticipated biography ‘Spare’.
Harry recalled he felt ‘peacefully numb’ from the ‘good weed’, until he received a Facetime call from Meghan, telling his friend: ‘Oh shit, it’s her.’
Presumably hearing the Disney film in the background, Meghan asked him if he was watching cartoons, to which he replied: ‘No, I mean, yeah. It’s… Inside Out.’
‘I moved to a quiet corner of the flat. She was back at her hotel. She had washed her face, and I said “God, I love your freckles. That’s insane, they’re beautiful”.’
The pair chatted for a while before agreeing to meet for a second date at Soho House.
In a recent Netflix documentary, Harry revealed he first became interested in Meghan after seeing a video of her dancing with a Snapchat filter on her face on a friend’s Instagram feed.
He made clear to his friend he wanted to meet Meghan – then an actress on TV drama Suits – before the two swapped numbers and began talking.
Other claims in the Duke of Sussex’s tell-all autobiography
With excerpts from the Duke of Sussex’s tell-all book leaked ahead of its publication, here are the claims and revelations so far.
– Harry claims William, now the Prince of Wales, physically attacked him
Harry writes: ‘(William) called me another name, then came at me. It all happened so fast. So very fast. He grabbed me by the collar, ripping my necklace, and he knocked me to the floor.
‘I landed on the dog’s bowl, which cracked under my back, the pieces cutting into me. I lay there for a moment, dazed, then got to my feet and told him to get out.’
– William called Meghan ‘difficult’ and ‘rude’
The Guardian revealed the alleged incident took place at Harry’s then home in Nottingham Cottage and that William called the Duchess of Sussex ‘difficult’, ‘rude’ and ‘abrasive’.
Harry told him he was parroting the press narrative about his wife.
– Charles pleaded with William and Harry to stop fighting, at Windsor, after the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral
In a tense meeting after Philip’s funeral, a grieving Charles, now King, told his sons: ‘Please, boys. Don’t make my final years a misery.’
– Harry claims William and Kate encouraged him to wear the Nazi uniform
Harry sparked outrage in 2005 when he wore a Nazi uniform complete with swastika armband to a fancy dress party.
But according to US website Page Six, he claims he phoned William and Kate to ask them whether he should chose a pilot’s uniform or a Nazi one for the fancy dress party, and William and Kate said the latter, and both howled with laughter when he went home and tried it on for them.
– Harry and William ‘begged’ Charles not to marry Camilla
Harry claims that he and William told Charles they would welcome the now-Queen Consort into the family on the condition he did not marry her, and ‘begged’ him not to do so.
The Duke alleges that his father did not respond to their pleas.
– Harry killed 25 people while serving as an Apache helicopter pilot in Afghanistan
The Telegraph, which obtained a Spanish language copy of the memoir from a bookshop in Spain, reported Harry said flying six missions during his second tour of duty on the front line resulted in ‘the taking of human lives’ of which he was neither proud nor ashamed.
– Harry reveals his use of cocaine
Harry said he had ‘taken cocaine’ during a shooting weekend by the summer of 2002, when he was 17, and did ‘a few more lines’ on other occasions, according to the Times.
He wrote that it was not ‘fun and it did not make me feel as happy as it seemed to make others but it did make me feel different and that was my main goal. To feel. To be different’.
– Harry asked a driver to replicate the journey Diana took in Paris before her death
While in Paris for the 2007 Rugby World Cup semi-final, Harry, who was 23, was driven through the Pont de l’Alma tunnel at the same speed as the car that was carrying Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed when it crashed in August 1997.
Harry said there was ‘no reason anyone should ever die inside’ the tunnel, adding that the drive was ‘a very bad idea’, People Magazine said.
– Harry claims a woman passed on a message from his mother
Harry said the woman, who ‘claimed to have “powers”,’ told him Diana is ‘with’ him and that she knows he is ‘looking for clarity’ and ‘feels’ his confusion.
He says the woman, who is not referred to as a psychic or medium, caused his neck to grow warm and his eyes to water, The Guardian reported.
– The King refused to allow Meghan to join him at Balmoral as the Queen was dying
Harry said to his father: ‘Don’t ever speak about my wife that way,’ according to the Telegraph.
– Harry accuses Charles of being jealous of the public attention William and Kate receive
The duke claims he became aware in 2015 his father was unhappy with the amount of attention his brother and sister-in-law received as it overshadowed Charles and Camilla.
According to The Telegraph, Harry writes in his memoir: ‘Willy did everything he (Charles) wanted, and sometimes he didn’t want him to do much, because my dad and Camilla didn’t like Willy and Kate getting too much publicity.’
He alleges that ahead of one particular public engagement, Charles’s staff had insisted Kate was not photographed holding a tennis racket, writing: ‘Undoubtedly that kind of photo would have pushed Dad and Camilla off every front page. And that couldn’t be tolerated under any circumstances.’
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Harry visited a friend after the meeting where they drank tequila and got high.