The Mail on Sunday

New love is set to meet Wills and Kate in weeks

- By Katie Nicholl ROYAL CORRESPOND­ENT

PRINCE HARRY is flying Meghan Markle to the UK ‘in a matter of weeks’ so they can see each other before he heads to the Caribbean for a fortnight on behalf of the Queen, The Mail on Sunday can disclose.

Harry is also keen for his brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to meet his new flame for the first time and has planned an informal get-together at Kensington Palace. The actress stayed there a number of times over the summer, but William and Kate were in Norfolk at the time.

The loved-up Prince has only just returned from a secret week-long trip to Toronto, where US-born Miss Markle lives, but sources say he can’t bear to be parted for long from the 35-year-old actress and plans to see her before he jets off to the Caribbean on November 20.

‘Harry was planning their next meeting before he left Toronto,’ said a source close to Miss Markle.

In a twist to the whirlwind romance, a friend of Harry, 32, has revealed how he announced two years ago that the divorcee, who plays Rachel Zane in the US drama Suits, was his ‘ideal woman’.

The friend said: ‘It’s uncanny given what has happened but he told a group of us two years ago that Meghan Markle was his dream girl. Now it seems like he’s got her.’ Harry is said to have bombarded Miss Markle with texts until she eventually agreed to a date.

Contrary to reports they met at the Invictus Games in Toronto in May, Meghan and Harry actually met in London and were set up on a date by Markus Anderson, creative director of private members’ haunt Soho House. Their first meeting took place at one of the group’s London clubs and the couple then enjoyed a night away at the Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshir­e.

Last week they were reportedly seen at a Halloween party at Soho House in Toronto, where the Prince donned a mask and costume to try to avoid being recognised.

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