Prince Harry has made a very revealing admission about the first time he saw his "beautiful" wife, Meghan Markle. The couple, who now reside in California, tied the knot in 2018 and are now proud parents to Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3.

In one section of his bombshell memoir Spare, which was released in January 2023, Harry revealed that Meghan is the "captain of my soul". Harry wrote: "I was sitting around Nott Cott, scrolling through Instagram... They were playing with a new app that put silly filters on your photos.

"Violet and the woman had dog ears, dog noses, long red dog tongues hanging out. This woman with Violet...my god. I watched the video several time, then forced myself to put the phone down."

He then went on, "Then picked it up, watched the video again. For thirty-two years I'd watched a conveyor-belt of faces pass by and only a handful ever made me look twice. This woman stopped the conveyor belt. This woman smashed the conveyor belt to pieces."

Sweetly discussing exactly he thought of Meghan, he added: "I'd never seen anyone so beautiful. There was an energy about her, a wild joy and playfulness.

"There was something in the way she smiled, the way she gazed into the camera. Confident. Free. She believed life was one grand adventure, I could see that.

"What a privilege it would be, I thought, to join her on that journey. I got all that from her face. Her luminous, angelic face."

Harry officially met Meghan, who was visiting the UK, in London in 2016. The pair, who kept their relationship private for some time, were spotted together in Canada at the Invictus Games in 2017 - which Harry founded in 2014.

The couple's engagement was officially announced in November 2017, and they tied the knot just six months later.

After welcoming their son in May 2019, the pair - after stepping down as senior working royals and moving to the US - welcomed their daughter in June 2021.