Meghan Markle has revealed she was drawn to Prince Harry’s ‘childlike wonder and playfulness’ in a rare interview. And one expert notes how the duchess is drawing on her time in the royal fold
10:00, 23 Nov 2025Updated 10:20, 23 Nov 2025
Meghan Markle has given a rare and emotional interview where she talks about how Prince Harry’s love for her changed her life. The Duchess of Sussex, 44, revealed she fell for Harry’s “childlike sense of wonder,” adding that he loves her “so boldly” and “fully” that she knows he will always have her back.
In the bombshell chat with Harper’s Bazaar, Meghan apprently put have “put her hand on her heart” when she spoke about the Duke of Sussex. “He loves me so boldly, fully, and he also has a different perspective because he sees media that I wouldn’t,” she gushed. “No one in the world loves me more than him, so I know he’s always going to make sure that he has my back.”
She adds of her husband: “You have someone who just has this childlike wonder and playfulness. I was so drawn to that, and he brought that out in me. That’s translated into every part of our life. Even in business, I want us to play and have fun and explore and be creative.”
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Meghan told the magazine that Harry’s “playfulness” has “translated into every part of our life” (Image: Malick Bodian/Harper’s Bazaar)
And according to body language and communications expert Judi James, the new interview drips “with signals that define Meghan’s unique ‘specialness’ and status.”
Decoding the duchess’ proud words on her fairytale prince, she said: “Harry sounds like the ultimate status signal here. In a rare and almost unique trait, Meghan will often tell the world how loved she is rather than how much she loves other people. Toasting guests at an event she hosted on TV, she once thanked them all for loving her. During interviews she will say how much Harry loves her. Here she goes even further saying he ‘Loves me so boldly, fully….Nobody in the world loves me more than him’.
“This is a breathtaking statement. We often describe how much we love someone else but saying how deeply they love us is rare. Even a ‘we love each other deeply’ would be more usual but for Meghan it is about telling how adored she is.
“This has to be the ultimate status symbol, especially in Hollywood. Hollywood stars, no matter how huge, tend to live in a state of paranoia that their partners are cheating or about to leave them. It’s like a marital battleground strewn with A-list names from Nicole Kidman to virtually all of the Kardashians. Wariness is the norm.”
Meghan said she was drawn to Harry’s ‘childlike wonder and playfulness'(Image: Netflix)
Explaining just how unprecedented Meghan’s praise is, Judi added: “But here is Meghan who has not only married a Prince but who is able to coo about how much and in what extreme ways he loves her, placing one hand on her heart as she does so. It’s a relationship confidence many women would crave but for Meghan it sounds as natural to her as her bare-faced beauty.
“This wording has echoes of a comment Harry’s own father made to Camilla years ago when he told her: ‘Your greatest achievement is to love me’ which has the same unique ring to it from someone equally confident of being adored by someone other than their mother.
“Her own feelings about Harry are sweet but her choice of words is way less romantic and passionate in this interview. As she basks in the glow of Harry’s love she praises his ‘childlike wonder and playfulness.’ which makes Harry sound a world away from the polo-playing, military action man we know him as in the UK.”
The Duchess of Sussex has a Christmas special coming out next month on Netflix(Image: Netflix)
During the interview, the writer notes how Meghan’s hair is “pulled back, and if she has any makeup on, it’s difficult to tell; her skin is bare, and some of her freckles are visible. She looks like she could still be in college.”
It’s no surprise that natural beauty Meghan has opted for a barefaced look, given it’s always been part of her feminist message around the standards placed on women.
Judi added: “The first message comes from the shoot. At a time when Hollywood A-listers are all about the cosmetics, the surgery and the carefully curated glamour, Meghan poses almost bare-faced with her hair pulled straight back off her face and in a variety of simple, basic, pared-back outfits.
The former Suits actress, 44, talked about her drive to succeed(Image: Malick Bodian/Harper’s Bazaar)
“The ‘less is definitely more’ suggestion is that beauty is an effortless state of being for her, and the second suggestion is one of classiness. The royals still retain a preference for natural looks and Meghan seems to be channelling this symptom of aristocratic ‘soft power’ here.”
As she poses for her first magazine cover since joining the Royal family, Meghan discusses the homemade pots of jam that inspired her luxury brand As Ever. Discussing how she hopes her kids, Prince Archie, six, and Princess Lilibet, four, observe when they see her working, she adds: “I hope they see the value of being brave. They saw it when the jam was just a pot on the stove, bubbling. When you’re young. I think you are a little bit more fearless. As we get older, we lose some of that.”
The duchess added: “I’m a mum with kids at that age where they are constantly learning something new. I watch them face things that feel completely insurmountable every day. But you can remember and say, ‘I know it seems really hard right now, but trust me, that’s going to come so easily soon.’ I can give myself the same grace as a founder. There’s no such thing as perfect. I, too, get to make mistakes.”
Harry and Meghan with children Archie and Lilibet at Disneyland
During the chat, Meghan was announced by her full title to a room that only had the journalist in it. Recouting the moment, the reporter wrote: “We’re in a grand brownstone on the Upper East Side that belongs to one of Meghan’s friends. When I enter, the house manager announces, ‘Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’, even though we appear to be the only other people in the house.”
Reacting to the astonishing move, Judi told us: “This sense of ‘specialness’ runs through her interview too. She seems to be ‘announced’ on arrival like a royal. She dishes out advice like a leading entrepreneur. When she’s asked about her ‘mistakes’ she deflects verbally as though taking the 5th Amendment approach to the idea she has any failures or flaws. Her use of the ‘I’ word vanishes and she changes to the more general ‘You’ as in ‘You learn to…’ to seem to avoid any personal ownership of possible mistakes in her career.”