Harry and Meghan began dating in July 2016 and announced their engagement in November 2017. The former senior working royal wrote in his 2023 memoir, Spare, that William told him his relationship with the actress was moving far too quickly.
“It’s too fast, he’d told me. Too soon [to propose],” Harry claimed. “In fact, he’d actually been pretty discouraging about my even dating Meg. One day, sitting together in his garden, he’d predicted a host of difficulties I could expect if I hooked up with an ‘American actress,’ a phrase he always managed to make sound like a ‘convicted felon.’”
Harry went on to write that from their very first meeting, things were tense between Meghan and her future in-laws after she hugged William and Kate when greeting them.
“[It] completely freaked him out,” Harry wrote. “He recoiled. Willy didn’t hug many strangers. Whereas Meg hugged most strangers.”
Harry also wrote that Kate became “offended” when Meghan told her she had “baby brain” during a run up to her wedding after giving birth to Prince Louis the month prior, after she forgot something.
He wrote that Kate angrily responded, “You talked about my hormones. We are not close enough for you to talk about my hormones!”
Once the conversation got back to William, he allegedly confronted Meghan about the “rude” comment, and she told the future king, “Take your finger out of my face.”