Harry’s perfect love match

From meeting on a blind date to today’s royal wedding, ADRIAN LEE charts the fairytale romance between the Prince and Meghan Markle, and why their relationship will only go from strength to strength

bonded because both endured the agony of parents divorcing – Harry when he was eight, Meghan when she was six.

For Harry the premature death of his mother had a profound impact and he has since admitted that he sought counselling after enduring two years of “total chaos” in his 20s. Harry revealed that he “shut down” all his emotions for about two decades.

In Meghan the Prince, who is now campaigning to end the stigma around mental health issues, found compassion and understanding. The open American is a far cry from the stiff upper lip approach that exists among some older members of the Royal Family and throughout the aristocracy.

The Africa trip was a roaring success, making Harry more certain than ever that he had finally found his soul mate.

By now the romance was moving at a whirlwind pace and at the end of October 2016, some four months after first meeting, our sister newspaper the Sunday Express revealed that the pair were dating.

A week later Harry confirmed his relationship with the actress in a public statement and in a further sign of their love she began wearing a gold necklace featuring the letters M and H.

The pair celebrated New Year together at Kensington Palace then slipped away to Norway to see the Northern Lights, staying at a lodge in Tromso owned by Harry’s friend Inge Solheim.

MEETING your boyfriend’s relatives for the first time is always a nerve-wracking moment for any girl but for Meghan taking afternoon tea with the Queen was another landmark. Around the same time she accompanied Harry to a friend’s wedding in Jamaica.

The couple’s first public appearance together was at his Invictus Games for disabled service personnel, in September last year, although they did not sit next to one another.

If keeping them apart in front of the cameras was intended to take some of the pressure off Meghan it failed.

By then the nation was buzzing with talk of a royal engagement and that duly arrived in November last year when she showed off a ring designed by the Prince himself. Both Harry and Meghan come with “baggage” from previous relationships and she is tying the knot for the second time.

Harry split from his last serious girlfriend Cressida Bonas in 2014 and before that was in a long-term relationship with Chelsy Davy for