How Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s First Christmas Nearly Exposed Their Then-Private Relationship ELLE 12/21/2020
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After roughly six months of dating in 2016, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry had their first Christmas together. It was only a month after The Daily Mail broke the news that Harry was seeing Meghan. No photos of them together had ever been published and they were still largely able to fly under the radar. That almost changed, according to royal reporter and
Finding Freedom co-author Omid Scobie.
Scobie revealed during a Q&A on Friday with fellow co-author (and ELLE.com royal contributor) Carolyn Durand and CNN s Max Foster that the future Duke and Duchess of Sussex s first holiday season in London almost became much more public than either of them wanted.
Finding Freedom. He responded,
“One of the stories that didn’t make the final cut was about their first Christmas in London. And obviously at the time, there was so much talk about their relationship, and the couple had actually so they had gone out in London to buy their first Christmas tree together, and we later found out about that through one of the papers. But what we didn’t know is that someone had actually taken photos of the couple, and this was going to, much to their sort of surprise, this was going to be probably the first pictures that we saw of them, but because it was so dark when they went shopping, those photos never saw the light of day, and they were able to enjoy a few more months of privacy beforehand.”