{"id":209770,"date":"2025-12-01T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209770\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T14:58:10","slug":"prince-harry-repeatedly-checked-meghan-markles-instagram-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/209770\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry ‘Repeatedly’ Checked Meghan Markle’s Instagram \u2014 Source"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry<\/strong> reportedly checked Meghan Markle<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s profile on Instagram multiple times even before meeting her. According to a report, multiple sources revealed how deeply the Duke of Sussex was smitten with his now-wife\u2019s beauty in the initial days. He has also mentioned in his book, \u201cSpare,\u201d that he first saw the duchess on her friend\u2019s Instagram post. At the time, the mother of two used to appear in the legal drama, \u201cSuits.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Prince Harry looked into Meghan Markle\u2019s Instagram profile before they dated, claims source<\/p>\n

Prince Harry \u201crepeatedly\u201d looked into Meghan Markle\u2019s Instagram profile even before they started dating, as per a source. They told RadarOnline<\/a> that the duke was \u201csmitten\u201d after he saw the 44-year-old on social media. As he described in his book, \u201cSpare,\u201d Harry spotted the Duchess of Sussex <\/a>in her friend Violet von Westenholz\u2019s Instagram post in 2016.<\/p>\n

Markle and her pal created a short clip using the then-trending dog filter. In the autobiography, Harry confessed that he watched the video \u201cseveral times,\u201d claiming that he had \u201cnever seen anyone so beautiful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Referring to those times, an insider told the outlet that the author was \u201cdetermined to meet her.\u201d \u201cHarry said he\u2019d never seen anyone like her and wasn\u2019t about to let the opportunity slip,\u201d they added. Another claimed that he was \u201cglued to his phone\u201d after he watched the clip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One source also mentioned that he was hoping for a \u201cchance\u201d to meet her. According to him, \u201ceverything would fall into place\u201d once they met. As revealed in \u201cSpare,\u201d Harry reached out to Westenholz and requested her to introduce him to Markle. Recalling those initial days, he claimed that he used to continuously text her \u201clike a teenager.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harry also narrated his first date with his now-wife and described her as \u201cheart-attack beautiful.\u201d After their second date and a trip to Botswana, he admitted that she was his \u201csoulmate.\u201d Speaking about the time, a friend of the duke told the outlet: \u201cHe kept saying it felt like there might be \u2018only one face\u2019 for him, and now he\u2019d found it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry reportedly checked Meghan Markle\u2019s profile on Instagram multiple times even before meeting her. According to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,3521,41053,5091,5092],"class_list":{"0":"post-209770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-lifestyle","14":"tag-lifestyle-news","15":"tag-meghan-markle","16":"tag-prince-harry"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115644904502153616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}