Meghan Markle and the queen's close relationship has been widely reported, so it is no surprise that their first official meeting was a huge success, according to royal biographers Omid Scobie and Caroline Durand in their new book, Finding Freedom In fact, they hit it off very well. In fact, the two hit it off so well that, unusually for the queen, the meeting ran 10 minutes over schedule.

Hello! reported (opens in new tab), Scobie and Duran reveal that the future Duchess of Sussex officially met the Queen on October 12, 2017 (although they had a fleeting encounter earlier that year when Meghan and Harry "literally bumped into each other") . The meeting took place in the Queen's private apartment at Buckingham Palace. Harry and Meghan rode in the Queen's elevator. 'Harry and Meghan rode in the Queen's elevator, a magnificent wrought-iron elevator built in the last century, up to the Queen's private entrance,' wrote a royal correspondent. The interior of the queen's private apartment was not at all what Meghan had expected. Not that Queen Meghan knew what to expect."

"Harry entered his grandmother's sitting room and kissed her on both cheeks. 'Princess Meghan knew she needed to bow and had practiced it dozens of times before that day,' Scobie and Durand continued. In fact, she didn't have to worry about it." In truth," Scobie and Duran continue, "the monarch was just happy for Harry.

The first sign that things were going well: the queen's corgis, Candy and Vulcan, quickly became fans of Meghan (the dogs' judgment is second to none)" "As the dogs lay at her feet wagging their tails, Meghan, like Harry had told his grandmother she would be, also reassured by the warm and loving queen. Before Meghan had to leave, the conversation flowed naturally. Adorable!