Meghan Markle's comments about a "final fun night out" she had with Prince Harry before going public with their relationship have gone viral, after footage from a 2021 interview with Ellen DeGeneres has resurfaced on TikTok.
Meghan and Harry have been increasingly open about their early relationship and how it developed into marriage since they stepped down from their working roles within the royal family and moved to the U.S. in 2020.
In 2021, after the couple spoke about the difficult aspects of their time in the royal spotlight in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan made a more lighthearted TV appearance, sitting down with friend and neighbor Ellen DeGeneres.
Meghan's interview was filmed at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, California, where The Ellen DeGeneres Show was shot. The duchess appeared as a guest on its final season, airing in November 2021.
DeGeneres raised the subject of Harry and Meghan's early relationship and the need to keep it a secret from the press. To illustrate this point, Meghan referenced a 2016 Halloween party she and the prince had been able to attend in Toronto, Canada, without anyone knowing it was them.
"[Harry] came to see me in Toronto and our friends and his cousin [Princess] Eugenie and now her husband Jack they came as well," she said. "The four of us snuck out in Halloween costumes to just have one fun night on the town before it was out in the world that we were a couple."
When pushed on the topic by DeGeneres, Meghan said: "It was a post-apocalypse theme so we had all this very bizarre costume on and we were able to just sort of have one final fun night out."
Footage from the interview has resurfaced on TikTok in recent weeks, uploaded by user entertainmentuhd. The post has gained over 900,000 views so far and in excess of 10,000 likes.
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Since the interview, Harry and Meghan have both shared more details about the Halloween party which was held at Soho House in Toronto, including never before seen photos from the event.
In the Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, the couple showed the photos of them dressed in their post-apocalyptic costumes. They were talking about the calm before the storm of the press finding out about their relationship.
"We'd been so petrified about when it [the story] would break and H trying to prepare me for what that might look like, knowing what he had experienced in the past. And then he and his brother's communications secretary, Jason, called him to let him know that the story was scooped by a tabloid. We said: 'Well, if its going to come out tomorrow then lets go and have fun tonight,'" Meghan said.
Harry added: "We went to this Halloween party together where we could be completely dressed up and no one would know...with a bandanna and goggles."
"His cousin, Eugenie, and her boyfriend at the time, Jack, and my friend Markus were there too," Meghan continued before referencing the fallout of being publicly outed as Harry's girlfriend. "It was so great. It was silly fun. And then... [snap],'" she said.
James Crawford-Smith is Newsweek's royal reporter, based in London. You can find him on X (formerly Twitter) at @jrcrawfordsmith and read his stories on Newsweek's The Royals Facebook page.
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