A "devastating call" on Halloween shook Harry and Meghan's lives

The relationship between Harry and Meghan has long been kept a secret.

With a call to a Halloween party in 2016, that should have changed.

London - Harry and Meghan were married in 2018 in a grand ceremony that was followed on TV around the world.

Today the two are no longer part of the British royal family in London, but live in the USA.

But the public interest remains unbroken.

Not least through statements about life behind the palace walls and revelations.

However, the couple did not always have such a large audience.

Harry and Meghan: They met on a blind date

At the beginning of the relationship between Prince Harry and then Meghan Markle, the two lovebirds tried to keep their connection as secret as possible.

They met on a blind date in 2016 after dating a mutual friend.

The public did not find out about it until months later.

Harry and Meghan: On Halloween 2016, they celebrated unrecognized in public

At that time Meghan Markle was still living in Toronto, Canada, where she was in front of the camera for the series "Suits".

As the British

reports, she is said to have jetted to London more often and he also to her to Toronto on Halloween in October 2016.

It was to be the last Halloween together before the relationship became known.

The newspaper describes that the couple felt strengthened enough at the time to go to a public Halloween party. The paper refers to the recently published unauthorized biography "Finding Freedom" by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand. Accordingly, the two are said to have spent a “perfect” evening in the “Soho House” in Toronto, dressed up in masks - until they received a devastating phone call.

The authors write: “They didn't feel like spending the Halloween weekend in hiding because there was a lot to celebrate.

About four months into their relationship, they were deeply in love and desperately wanted to be part of one of their favorite holidays.

On the evening of October 29th, when Harry was in town, the couple decided to go to a big costume party at Soho House in Toronto.

Harry's cousin Princess Eugenie and her current husband Jack Brooksbank were also at the party.

A phone call shook Harry and Meghan's lives

But then supposedly the call came.

“After about a cocktail at the party, they were both relaxed and absorbed in the Halloween mood.

It was probably the perfect evening - until they got a call from one of Harry's helpers at Kensington Palace.

It wasn't good news, ”the book says.

A British newspaper is said to have found out about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and threatened to publish everything.

Not a call that the two of them would have liked to receive in the middle of a party.

Duchess Meghan recently showed up reading from her own book.