Moment Meghan mocks her attempts at royal protocol with a deeply exaggerated curtsey.

 

Recounting the 'intense' moment, she performed a deep curtsey as husband Harry watched on, stone-faced, earlier than he glanced off digital camera appearing awkward. The pair then chuckled afterwards.

Meghan met the Queen for the first time for the duration of a lunch at the Royal Lodge in Windsor, rapidly after her and the Duke published they were dating, in 2016.

But she said the complete occasion felt like an antiquated feast at Medieval Times, a household dinner theater in the US offering staged medieval-style games, sword-fighting, and jousting.

The Queen was once the first senior member of the Royal Family that Meghan met after she and Prince Harry introduced their relationship in 2016.

'She had no notion what it all consisted of,' Harry tells the docu-series, as he sits with his arm round his wife. 'So it used to be a bit of a shock to the gadget for her.'

Grinning, Meghan added: 'I mean. it is surreal. There wasn't like some big moment of "Now you are gonna meet my grandmother".

'I didn't be aware of I was going to meet her until moments before. We had been in the vehicle and we had been going to the Royal Lodge for lunch, and he [Harry] was like, "Oh, my grandmother is here, she's gonna be there after church.".

'I take note we had been in the car, riding and he is [Harry] like, "You know how to curtsy, right?". And I just idea it was a joke.'

The Duke continued: 'How do you explain that to people? How do you provide an explanation for that you bow to your grandmother? And that you would want to curtsy, especially to an American. That's weird.'

Meghan then tells the documentary: 'Now I'm starting to understand this is a massive deal. I mean, American's will apprehend this. We have Medieval Times dinner and tournament. It was like that. Like, I curtsied as though I was like... "Pleasure to meet you your Majesty."

'It used to be so intense. And then when she left, Eugenie and Jack and Fergie say "you did great!". Thanks. I didn't comprehend what I used to be doing.'

Meghan and Harry's Netflix documentary is out today and starts offevolved with an attack on Buckingham Palace's decision not to co-operate with the sequence that publicizes a clean combat on the Royal Family and the media.

The highly-anticipated sequence is being put out in two parts, with the first three episodes of the six-part docu-series now reachable to stream.

The collection includes tears from Meghan, who Harry repeatedly compares to Princess Diana claiming that each his mother and wife had been being hunted via the press.

There are also a series of jibes at his father, King Charles III, and brother Prince William as properly as speaking about alleged racism and 'unconscious bias' in the Royal Family.

During the 2nd episode, Meghan speaks about the 'formality' of the royals behind closed doors, announcing she was 'surprised' with the aid of this.

'I was a hugger constantly being a hugger I didn't understand that that is virtually jarring for a lot of Brits,' she added.

'I wager I commenced to apprehend very shortly that the formality on the outside carried thru on the inside.

'That there is a forward-facing way of being. And then you shut the door and you are like (sighs) "Oh great. Okay, we can loosen up now". But that formality carries over on each sides. And that used to be surprising to me.'

The Duchess admitted that becoming a member of the Royal Family was once nothing like The Princess Diaries as she stated she did now not get hold of training on royal protocol.

Meghan referenced the 2001 coming-of-age comedy about an American excessive school pupil who discovers she is heir to the throne of Genovia, a fictional European kingdom, as she spoke about struggling to adapt to life as a working royal.

The Disney film, based on Meg Cabot's 2000 novel of the same name, was a business success, grossing round a hundred sixty five million US greenbacks worldwide.

During the 1/3 episode of her Netflix docuseries, Meghan said: 'Joining this family I knew that there was a protocol for how matters were done. Do you take into account that old movie Princess Diaries with Anne Hathaway?'

The episode featured a clip from the movie in which Hathaway, in personality as gawky teen Mia Thermopolis, discovers her ancestry and exclaims: 'Me a princess? Shut up.'

Dame Julie Andrews, taking part in her grandmother, the Queen regent of Genovia, guarantees to help her adapt to royal life. 

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