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Rosaleen Fenton

Fans baffled as Meghan Markle and Harry appear to change story about how they met

When Meghan Markle and Prince Harry sat down to tell the world about their romance in their engagement interview, they couldn't keep the smiles off their faces when recalling meeting on a blind date.

Now, five years later, the couple have told the story again as part of their new Netflix docuseries - Harry & Meghan - but viewers have spotted a few inconsistencies in the two accounts.

As is traditional for royal couples, Meghan and Harry sat down with the BBC for their first chat after announcing their engagement. During the chat Harry said: "It was definitely a set-up — it was a blind date. It was a blind date for sure.”

How it turns out Harry took a slightly more proactive role in meeting his future wife.

In the show, he reveals he spotted her on a mutual friend's Instagram page and requested that they be introduced. The funny snap showed Meghan with the popular Snapchat dog ears filter.

He said: "I was scrolling through my feed and someone who was a friend had this video of the two of them, it was like a Snapchat. That was the first thing. I was like ‘Who is THAT?'”

The pair said this selfie captured the moment they decided to give their relationship a go, on their second date, at Soho House in London (Netflix)

Meghan said the friend then sent her an email, the words of which are typed out on the screen, saying: "Between you and I thought you might want to know this being newly single and all. I put our Snapchat on Instagram and Prince Haz follows me (he’s a friend) he called me last night dying to meet you. hehehe. I might just have to set you up” (sic).

Meghan’s hilarious reply, which was also typed out on screen, was: “Who is prince haz?????”

Below her reply, viewers can see the words: "Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse all technological mishaps. I’m a Luddite.”

The couple then exchanged flirty messages and did video calls before finally arranging to meet up in real life.
Meghan said that she "was really intent on being single, and just having fun girl time, adding: 'I had a career, I had my life, I had my path, and then along came H. Talk about a plot twist."

The first photo Prince Harry saw of Meghan Markle was a snap of the actress with a dog filter on (Netflix)
Meghan and Princess Eugenie in disguise (Netflix)

But the new details left many royal fans scratching their heads.

On Twitter, one person wrote: "I’m confused af. I thought Harry and Meghan met on a blind date? Now they met and started chatting after he saw a picture on Instagram? Which is it?"

Another wrote: "Was it on a blind date like they’ve said in older interviews? Or on Instagram like they now say in the doc? I’m surprised that nobody on their team edited that part before it was released."

"They said it was a blind date at first and now it's via Instagram?" asked a third.

Meghan and Harry first opened up about the romantic proposal during their engagement interview, which they sat for just hours after telling the world their happy news.

Now Meghan has now dubbed it an "orchestrated reality show” - potentially suggesting a royal communications aide guided what they should say about their love story.

Opening up to Netflix, the Duchess of Sussex admitted she was "petrified” about news of their relationship breaking and Harry tried to prepare her for what that may be like.

Meghan said communications secretary Jason Knauf called Harry in October 2016 to tell him the relationship was going to be revealed by a tabloid.

Speaking in the first episode, Meghan said: “I said 'Well if it’s going to come out tomorrow, let’s go and have fun tonight’.”

Harry said they dressed up and went to a Halloween party to "pull the pin on the fun grenade”.

The episode includes various pictures from the Halloween party including an image of Harry’s cousin Princess Eugenie.

Harry also revealed Meghan's a "two-week rule” which he described as "very smart” and meant they had to see each other in and around every two weeks as they embarked on their relationship.

In the first episode of Harry & Meghan he said: "I said ‘How is that even possible with the stuff that I’m doing? I’m not going to be able to travel to see you that much’.”

Meghan said it was "much easier” for her to visit Harry in the UK as she could just get a commercial flight and see him "under the radar”.

Harry said in the first few months when no one knew about their relationship it made more sense for Meghan to come to him, stay in the Kensington Palace grounds and the pair could drive up to Windsor and go for walks around Frogmore.

Harry said: "Getting her through the police barrier and on to Kensington Palace was a risk in itself because people talk, right? It’s not about who you trust. It’s about who they trust.

What are your thoughts on Harry & Meghan? Have your say in the comment section below.

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