{"id":218840,"date":"2025-12-06T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218840\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:10:12","slug":"meghan-markles-close-friend-reveals-prince-harry-surprise-in-netflix-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/218840\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s close friend reveals Prince Harry surprise in Netflix special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle\u2019s close friend has revealed a surprise from Prince Harry during an off-camera moment filming the royal\u2019s Netflix special.<\/p>\n<p>The Duchess of Sussex released her With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>The special saw a host of Meghan\u2019s friends make appearances, with one highlighting a sweet moment involving Prince Harry.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Jill Roth joined the Duchess for the wreath-making segment of the Netflix show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"a7c78\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"ddd44c4b83e7bfc993b88e38b7c55bea\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201196%20858'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/meghan-markle-lindsay-jill-roth.png\" width=\"1196\" height=\"858\" alt=\"Meghan Markle, Lindsay Jill Roth\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meghan Markle and Lindsay Jill Roth have known each other for over 25 years <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>INSTAGRAM<\/p>\n<p>Ms Roth and Meghan have known each other for more than 25 years, first meeting in a literature class.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Roth revealed that even though Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet did not feature in the Netflix special, they came to set alongside Prince Harry.<\/p>\n<p>She recalled: \u201cI don&#8217;t get to see them all the time now, so I got to have Archie with me when I was making my wreath and he helped me put a few little things on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting to see him and give him big cuddles and give Harry a big hug and just have a few moments with them was such a nice surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also spoke about the atmosphere on set: \u201cThe vibe was amazing. Meg was already filming when I arrived, but as soon as I walked in, Daniel Martin (makeup artist), gave me a big hug and welcomed me to set. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then I saw Jake Rosenberg (photographer) who was there taking photos \u2014 we\u2019ve all been friends for years \u2014 and he gave me another big hug.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt instantly felt like a family day. So warm, so fun, so easy. We were just ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Roth opened up about her long friendship with the duchess to People, as she revealed: \u201cWe haven&#8217;t always lived in the same place at the same time, but we find ourselves connected through the same interests, or we&#8217;ll be thinking the same thing at the same time and message each other about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe laugh a lot. There&#8217;s just always been that level of support for each other. When you find someone that you are just 100 per cent yourself with, it&#8217;s rare.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"d26fc\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"e3529c7853815315aba67f999147417c\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201196%20800'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lindsay-jill-roth.png\" width=\"1196\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Lindsay Jill Roth\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Jill Roth revealed that Prince Archie and Princess Lillibet during filming for the Netflix special <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>INSTAGRAM<\/p>\n<p>Having never made a wreath before, Ms Roth was wary going into the filming but said: \u201cIt could have been a disaster, but they did look beautiful, you could see our different styles coming through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the show may have debuted to negative reviews, Ms Roth believes that hosting is one of Meghan\u2019s passions: \u201cShe&#8217;d be staying with me, and she&#8217;d go into my fridge, and she&#8217;d pull out five things, and suddenly I&#8217;d have a beautiful dinner on my table of all these disparate things that actually make a beautiful dish that I would&#8217;ve never thought of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd not only would she throw something on the stove and cook a beautiful meal, but it would look really pretty too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s always been one of her outlets, so to see her combining that with being on set, which is also something she loves, is great to watch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This news comes as Markle has also &#8220;has reached out to her father&#8221; after he underwent &#8220;life-saving treatment&#8221; in which he is said to have had his leg amputated, on Friday, after her brother had urged the duchess to reach out.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Duchess of Sussex told GB News: &#8220;I can confirm she has reached out to her father.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The People&#8217;s Channel believes that Meghan has tried to contact her father in the past, after being estranged from Thomas Markle since her marriage to Prince Harry in 2018. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6d537\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"849024cf21842064170fc38745d9c6aa\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201196%20800'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765041012_947_meghan-markle-lindsay-jill-roth.png\" width=\"1196\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Meghan Markle, Lindsay Jill Roth\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meghan Markle&#8217;s Netflix special debuted to a slew of poor reviews <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>NETFLIX <\/p>\n<p>Thomas Markle Jr, confirmed his father had the operation on Thursday, saying: &#8220;My dad is being very brave. His foot turned blue and then black. It happened very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I took him to a local hospital, and they did some scans and an ultrasound and said the leg had to be amputated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no option. I was told the leg had to be removed, and it was a case of life or death.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle\u2019s close friend has revealed a surprise from Prince Harry during an off-camera moment filming the royal\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,5091,5092,21827],"class_list":{"0":"post-218840","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-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-royal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115673735234897405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218840","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=218840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}