Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Explain ‘Cold’ Final Engagement With His Family in March 2020

By Kim Brown |

Dec 15, 2022

Two months after announcing their intention to exit as senior members of the royal family, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry returned to the UK in March of 2020 – before the pandemic shut down many parts of the world – to do one last week of engagements.

It was their final commitments as senior royals, and after that, they permanently moved out of the UK.

“Until that last week in the UK, I rarely wore color, and I never wanted to upstage or ruffle any feathers, so I just tried to blend in,” Meghan said during the last episodes of Harry & Meghan on Netflix. “But I wore a lot of color that week. It just felt like, ‘Well, let’s just look like a rainbow.’”

However, the final engagement, Commonwealth Day 2020, caused a ton of media attention.

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Their very last engagement was alongside Queen Elizabeth, then-Prince Charles, Camilla, Prince William, Kate Middleton, Prince Edward, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and it was the first public engagement with the whole family since their exit.

“The first time that we saw the other members of the family was in public at Westminster Abbey,” Meghan shared.

“We were nervous seeing the family because all the TV cameras and everybody watching at home and everybody watching in the audience. It’s like living through a soap opera where everybody else views you as entertainment,” Harry said.

“I felt really distant from the rest of my family, which was interesting because so much of how they operate is about what it looks like, rather than what it feels like,” he continued. “And it looked cold. But it also felt cold.”

“We had left Westminster Abbey, and then that was it. I had to go to the airport,” Meghan added. “We get on the plane. And it’s not the pilot — but whoever is sort of overseeing the crew — and he came and he knelt next to my seat and he took his hat off. I just remember looking at him, and he goes, ‘We appreciate everything you did for our country.’”

“It was the first time that I felt like someone saw the sacrifice. Not for my own country. For this country, that’s not mine,” she added.

At the time, a lip reader actually revealed what Prince Harry said after greeting Prince William at the 2020 event, and it went viral…