Meghan Markle claims she hadn't Googled Prince Harry when she was first welcomed into the royal family.
The Duchess of Sussex told Oprah Winfrey in the bombshell CBS interview that she'd hadn't done any research on the prince or his family ahead of marrying him.
“Thank God I didn’t know a lot about the family,” she said.
“Thank God I hadn’t researched. I would’ve been so in my head about it.”
The 39-year-old also recollected the moment her now-husband Prince Harry told her she'd be meeting the Queen.
She said she was excited and confident everything would be okay until he asked her: "Do you know how to curtsy?"
Meghan said: "I thought genuinely that's what happens outside, I thought that was part of the fanfare, but I didn't think that's what happened inside.
"And I said 'but it's your grandmother', and he goes 'it's the Queen'."
The explosive interview was broadcast in the UK by ITV after first airing on CBS on Sunday.
It has captured international media attention for the past weeks as teaser clips of the much-anticipated "tell-all" interview were gradually released.
Among the sensational revelations is how one unspecified royal was said to be worried about what skin tone their first-born Archie, born in May 2019, would have.
While the person has not been named, Oprah has since come out to say it is neither the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh.
The interview also hit the headlines when the duchess revealed to the chat-show star how she'd had suicidal thoughts while pregnant with Archie.
Meghan, who is due to give birth to a baby girl in the summer, said life in the family had taken a devastating toll on her mental health, stating: "I just didn't want to be alive anymore."
Prince Harry then intervened to say he went to “a very dark place” after his wife told him of her suicidal thoughts.
But he claims he didn’t know how to tell anyone - and that it was not normal to speak about such things in the Royal Family.
“That’s just not a conversation that would be had,” he tells Oprah, as she presses him for an explanation.
He said he felt ashamed admitting that he had issues, and he felt unsure whether other members of the family suffered with mental health.
“It’s a very trapping environment that a lot of them are stuck in,” he tells Oprah.
He adds: “I didn’t have anyone to turn to.
He tells Oprah that there is a mentality in the Royal Family that ‘that’s just how it is’ and you learn to deal with it.
Watch the full interview on the ITV Hub, Courtesy of Harpo Productions/CBS.
