- Meghan recalls her life changed after dating Prince Harry.
- The couple’s new docuseries, “Harry & Meghan,” debuted on Netflix.
Meghan Markle is thinking on the constant public scrutiny that has come with dating Prince Harry.
Meghan, 41, recalled how her life changed after it was revealed she was dating the British royal in the second episode of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new docuseries Harry & Meghan, which debuted on Netflix Thursday, and how the paparazzi became terrifying while she was living in Toronto filming Suits.
“I remember going to get flowers, coming out of the flower shop, and there must have been 9 or 10 paps standing in the street. They were all sort of blocking the cars, and saying, ‘Hey, how are you doing Meghan?’ ” and I was like, ‘Oh thanks, stay warm guys!’ ” the Duchess of Sussex said.
“And I remember H the next day saying, ‘You can’t talk to them,’ ” Meghan said, shifting to a serious tone. “And I was like, ‘I’m just trying to be pleasant, I don’t know what to do, I’ve never dealt with this before. And he’s like, “Right, but the U.K. media are saying you love it. You’re smiling, you love it.” The camera panned to an old headline from The Sun saying Meghan “couldn’t stop smiling” while out and about buying flowers, wearing a necklace with her and Harry’s initials.
A friend, Lucy Fraser, said that Meghan had a hard time adjusting to her new life, and Meghan said in a separate interview that it felt like all of the U.K. press had “descended upon Toronto” at the time. The host of Archetypes said that her house was “surrounded” by photographers who would wait for her to do something.
“I was hearing all of this from thousands of miles away,” Prince Harry, 38, recalled. “And trying to do something about it but being completely helpless.”
As the attention grew, Meghan’s neighbours told her that paparazzi would knock on their doors looking for her, and some of them were paid to put a livestream camera in her backyard.
“Suddenly, it was like everything about my life got so much more insular. All the curtains were pulled, all the blinds were pulled,” she said. “It was scary.”
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