London - Just four weeks after a blind
date with US actress Meghan Markle that left him beautifully
surprised, Britain's Prince Harry took his wife to be on a trip
to Botswana to camp under the stars in his tent.
Harry, 33, Queen Elizabeth's grandson and fifth-in-line to
the British throne, and Markle, 36, best known for her role in
the U.S. TV legal drama "Suits", got engaged this month in
London, announcing the news on Monday.
"I had never watched Suits, I had never heard of Meghan
before and I was beautifully surprised when I walked into that
room and saw her. I was like I'm going to have to really up my
game here," Harry told the BBC.
"It was I think about three maybe four weeks later that I
managed to persuade her to come and join me in Botswana and we
camped out with each other under the stars."
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Harry and Markle, who is a divorcee, met in July 2016 after
they were introduced through a friend who set them up on a blind
date. But it was not until September that they made their first
public appearance together at the Invictus Games in Toronto, a
sports event for wounded veterans.
They are due to marry in the spring of next year.
"The fact that I fell in love with Meghan so incredibly
quickly was confirmation to me that all the stars were aligned,
everything was just perfect," Harry said. "This beautiful woman
just tripped and fell into my life, I fell into her life.
"I know the fact that she'll be unbelievably good at the job
part as well is obviously a huge relief to me because she'll be
able to deal with everything else that comes with is. We're a
fantastic team. We know we are."
The prince, the younger son of heir-to-the-throne Prince
Charles and his first wife Diana, publicly confirmed their
relationship months later in a rebuke to the media over its
alleged intrusion into Markle's private life.
Markle said she was not prepared for the huge attention
their relationship would have.
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"I did not have any understanding of just what it would be
like," she said, saying there was a misconception that because
she was an actress she would be used to being in the media
spotlight.
In his office's warning to the media, Harry referred to the
sexism and racism directed at Markle, whose father is white and
her mother African-American.
"Any the end of day I'm really just proud of who I am and
where I come from and we have never put any focus on that," she
said.