In his memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex admitted he had ‘firm rules’ about relationships – including a strict three-year dating rule before proposing – but said he broke them all when he met Meghan
Prince Harry seemingly had a whirlwind romance with Meghan – whisking her off on holiday on just their third date and becoming engaged just over a year after they first met.
But it seems he previously had very strict personal rules about when he would feel ready to take the next step in a relationship — but admitted all of that went straight out of the window the moment he began dating his now wife.
A decade ago before they met, the Duke of Sussex’s life looked vastly different from how it does today. At that time, he was a full-time working royal residing in his Kensington Palace cottage, just a stone’s throw from his now estranged brother, Prince William.
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It was during the summer of 2016, as Harry’s romance with Meghan began to flourish, that everything started to shift for the prince. From the very early stages of their courtship, Harry has previously admitted he knew Meghan was the woman he would ultimately marry.
The couple wed in 2018, just two years after they first got together, which Harry acknowledged was a direct contradiction of a guideline he had set for himself as a young, eligible bachelor.
In his memoir Spare, Harry recalls always holding “firm rules” when it came to relationships, particularly given his royal status. He wrote in the 2023 autobiography: “The main one was that you absolutely must date a woman for three years before taking the plunge.”
He added: “But Meg seemed the shining exception to this rule. All rules. I knew her straightaway, and she knew me. The true me. Might seem rash, I thought, might seem illogical, but it’s true: For the first time, in fact, I felt myself to be living in truth.”
Just two years later in 2018, Harry and Meghan tied the knot in a fairytale Windsor wedding. Another two years on, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit the Royal Family and now reside in California with their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
Now, six years on from their relocation to America, the Sussex family are back in the UK after moving to the Cotswolds in August. Harry and Meghan are continuing their philanthropic work, while the children are enrolled in a British school.
Harry’s relationship with his family is still strained, although the Duke and Duchess reunited with the King and Queen during a private family meeting at Highgrove in July, which marked the first time Charles had seen his grandchildren in four years.
Despite making moving to reconcile with his father, it is believed that Harry and his brother and sister-in-law, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are still not on speaking terms, with no sign that they will mend their rift any time soon.
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