Meghan Markle opened up about a major incident during her time as active royalty, five years later.

The Duchess of Sussex made a surprise appearance (along with neighbor and fellow author Oprah Winfrey) at the grand opening of Godmothers, a bookstore near her home in Montecito, California, at a particularly chaotic moment in her life back in 2019. She spoke about the important role.

“For me, sneaking into New York five years ago was a really big deal,” Markle told the crowd at Godmothers' grand opening event, according to Town & Country. 'I was still very reluctant to go out into the world. I knew that the safe things I craved could be found in bookstores”

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Markle said that when she “snuck” into New York City five years ago, she wore a hat and kept her head low to avoid being noticed. The expression “snuck in” recalls an outfit the former Suits actress was last photographed wearing on her way to the airport in February 2019, when she visited New York to attend a baby shower thrown by friends.

To review (it was five years ago, after all), Markle's attire for the airport at the time consisted of leggings, fashion sneakers, a camel-colored coat, and a “Rectify” cap (which her friend and fellow actress Abigail Spencer once wore on her show ” Rectify” promotional item, photographed just hours before the Duchess of Sussex was spotted wearing the same cap that Spencer wore on her way to Markle's baby shower).

Markle did not clearly confirm the date of the bookstore moment she shared with the audience at Godmothers, but it turns out that 2019 was an emotionally draining time for her. In one of the most emotional moments of the Sussex couple's televised 2021 interview with Winfrey, Markle revealed her struggle with suicidal thoughts and shared those struggles with Prince Harry before attending an event at the Royal Albert Hall in January 2019 She explained that she had.

She did not say which bookstore she found safety in at the time of 2019, but Markle's connection to Godmothers is strong. According to Town & Country, her husband called Winfrey and Godmothers co-owners literary agent Jennifer Rudolph Walsh and cosmetics mogul Victoria Jackson “fairy godmothers” at the launch party for his memoir, Spare It was when they came up with the name for the store.

When Rudolph Walsh and Jackson decided to open the store, Winfrey recalled Harry's nickname: Godmothers.”