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Meghan Markle Didn't Know She Needed to Curtsy to Queen Elizabeth the First Time They Met

Photo credit: Handout - Getty Images
Photo credit: Handout - Getty Images

From Town & Country

Just a few minutes into Meghan Markle's sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Duchess of Sussex opened up about the first time she met Prince Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth.

She and Harry were heading to Royal Lodge, where Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew live, and where Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice frequently spend time.

"It turned out, the Queen was finishing a church service in Windsor and so she was going to be at the house," Meghan told Oprah. And when Harry heard the news, he asked Meghan: "Right, Do you know how to curtsy?"

Meghan hadn't realized that she would need to curtsy when she met the Queen.

"I thought genuinely that was what happens outside I thought that was part of the fanfare. I didn't think that was what happens inside. And I said, 'But it’s you’re grandmother,' and he said, 'It’s the Queen.'"

"That was really the first moment that the penny dropped," Meghan recalls.
She learned quickly, with Fergie even rushing out of the home to help her practice.

And despite being unprepared, she curtsied "deeply, to show respect."

"And I met her and apparently I did a very deep curtsy and I don’t remember it and then just we sat there and we chatted and it was lovely and easy and and I think thank god i hadn’t known a lot about the family. Thank god I hadn’t researched," Meghan said.

Later in the interview Meghan revealed that despite the difficulties of joining the royal family, the Queen had always been "wonderful to me," and that she'd been "warm" and "inviting."

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