By now most royal watchers have heard the story about Meghan Markle ‘s first meeting with Prince William and the Princess of Wales ( formerly known as Kate Middleton ) after she started dating Prince Harry . The Duchess of Sussex spoke about her first encounter with her future in-laws during the Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan . The duke then backed up his wife ‘s claim by again detailing a frosty meeting in his memoir Spare .
But no one has ever heard William and Kate’s version of that meeting or how the couple acts when they first meet other people dating someone in their family. That is until now. What Harry and Meghan said made Will and Kate ‘recoil’ and ‘freak out’ during first meeting In the second episode of the Sussexes’ docuseries, Meghan talked about meeting William and Kate for the first time and the Princess of Wales not wanting to hug saying: “I was a hugger, always been a hugger.
I didn’t realize that is really jarring for a lot of Brits. I guess I’d start to understand very quickly that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside. There is a forward-facing way of being, and then you close the door and you relax now.
But that formality carries over on both sides. And that was surprising to me.” In Spare , Harry doubled down on Meghan’s version of that first encounter with William and Kate at Kensington Palace in 2016 and claimed that the future king also “recoiled” from the duchess’s hug.
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