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The soccer legend posted a festive photo at a fancy table with the former Spice Girl and her parents on New Year’s Day

David Beckham and Victoria Beckham at the ‘Beckham’ U.K. premiere in London on Oct. 3, 2023. PHOTO: SAMIR HUSSEIN/WIREIMAGE

David Beckham is doubling down on a now-infamous exchange with his wife Victoria Beckham, who alleged in their documentary that she had “working-class roots.”

In an Instagram post on Sunday, David, 48, shared a festive photo at a fancy table with his wife, 49, and her parents, all dressed up.

“Just a nice casual New Year’s Eve lunch at The Ritz ❤️ @victoriabeckham. Very working class,” he teased, jokingly noting that his in-laws left in their “Rolls Royce.”

David, who wore a suit in the photo, was referencing the now-viral clip from Netflix’s four-part documentary Beckham, which was released on Oct. 4.

The video showed David playfully interrupting the Spice Girls alum during a sit-down discussion for the doc. Victoria had explained that she and David come from families that were “very working class,” and as she finished her thought, her husband popped his head into the room during her interview and said, “Be honest.”

David and Victoria Beckham enjoy love with her parents.DAVID BECKHAM/INSTAGRAM

“I am being honest,” Victoria replied with a hint of defensiveness.

David, however, didn’t seem convinced, and then asked his wife, “What car did your dad drive you to school in?”

After nipping back and forth about the specifics of the vehicle, he kept repeating the question. Victoria eventually folded. “OK, in the ’80s, my dad had a Rolls Royce.”

“Thank you,” David responded with a satisfied grin, closing the door and retreating back to the room he was in.

David Beckham Tells Victoria Beckham to ‘Be Honest’ After She Claims She Grew Up ‘Working Class’

The Beckham family attends the Victoria Beckham Spring/Summer 2023 runway show in Paris on Sept. 30, 2022.DARREN GERRISH/WIREIMAGE

The parents of sons Brooklyn, 24, Cruz, 18, and Romeo, 21, along with daughter Harper, 12, are known for lovingly roasting each other online — and Victoria doesn’t hold back on giving fans what they want: thirst traps of her tattooed husband.

Last month, the former pop star shared a cheeky photo of a shirtless David doing some handyman work around the house in his white Calvin Klein boxer briefs.

“Electrician came to fix the TV…..You’re welcome! 😂,” the fashion designer captioned the shot.

David recently teased his “dramatic” wife for getting tired at the gym, sharing a humorous photo of her “napping” on the floor.

“Not that my wife’s dramatic or anything but this is what happened this morning,” he wrote on a picture of Victoria stretched on her back next to a treadmill. The athlete also added an eye roll emoji and a GIF with the rotating sentence, “I wanna nap.”

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All jokes aside, the couple doesn’t hesitate to share their love for one another and their family. Over Christmas, Victoria showed some shots of family fun during the Beckhams’ night out. “Special night with my family. I love you all so much x,” she captioned the pics.

David, for his turn, shared a featured photo of the pair embracing outside surrounded by palm trees with a margarita in front of him. “Merry Christmas to my amazing family & feeling very thankful for everything they do for me, love you all 🩷.”

“Morning work out with this Love Machine,” the Spice Girls alum captioned her Instagram post

PHOTO: VICTORIA BECKHAM INSTAGRAM

Victoria Beckham is showing off the view she had during her morning workout.

On Tuesday, the Spice Girls alum, 49, posted a video on Instagram while in the gym with husband David Beckham. In the clip, David, 48, is wearing a pair of short and fitted blue shorts while doing a series of push ups into a downward dog position.

“Morning work out with this Love Machine 🔊😂 @davidbeckham” she captioned the post while filming different angles of her husband’s butt.

Fans flocked to the comments section over the view of her husband’s tight shorts.

“She knows what she’s doing to us all 😍🔥😂” one follower wrote while another added, “VB out here doing the Lord’s work 🙌 🥰”

“Holy Crap I can almost see the golden balls🙌😂” another person commented.

Victoria and David often post videos of their at-home couple’s workout.

Earlier this year, the fashion designer shared a glimpse at the daily fitness routine, joking that her husband “looks great not doing much” while she works up a sweat in their private gym.

“While one of us works really hard… the other one looks great not doing much 🥴” she wrote in the caption, tagging their trainer Bobby Rich.

Victoria and David Beckham.GARETH CATTERMOLE/GETTY IMAGES

Victoria Beckham Shares a Look at Her Workout — Featuring Shirtless Husband David in Background

In the first photo, David lied on the floor stretching his legs and using a massage gun on his shirtless chest while looking at his phone. Victoria also took a mirror selfie as she used a stair climber and her husband of 23 years stood nearby.

Victoria previously told The Sunday Times that she preferred to work out alone in 2017, as it was “really the only time in the day I get to myself.”

“No one comes into the gym, no one follows me in there with a laptop,” she said at the time.

“If I’m standing in the kitchen for too long, then laptops will come floating in my direction. Someone always wants something approved, something signed off,” explained Victoria. “Other than the children, no one dares come into the gym.”

Prince Harry’s decision to fly to Britain after King Charles’ cancer diagnosis gave him an opportunity to “further make amends for a lot of the pain he caused,” a PR expert told Newsweek.

The Duke of Sussex was on a plane just hours after Buckingham Palace announced Monday the king had begun treatment for cancer. Harry had already spoken to his father about his health, and the following day was with Charles at Clarence House by around 3 p.m. U.K. time.

The king delayed his departure from London to Sandringham, his Norfolk country retreat, for the meeting, believed to be about 30 minutes long. Harry was then seen back at the airport catching a return flight to Los Angeles, meaning he traveled 11,000 miles for a half-hour meeting.

While it may have been brief, the meeting has been widely perceived by commentators as a positive sign in their relationship after years of strain, amid allegations of leaks to the media and the bombshells from Harry’s Oprah Winfrey interview, memoir and Netflix show.

Eric Schiffer, chair of Reputation Management Consultants, told Newsweek: “Harry would probably rather chew glass than have to make this visit because of the past.

“At the same time, this is a beautiful moment for him to show up for his father and to further make amends for a lot of the pain he caused the family and demonstrate, through action, a greater relationship and bond between him and his dad,” he said. “It was really emotionally mature for him to show up and it probably meant a lot to his dad.

“This is a mission to be there for his father and he took action, stepped up and wants to be a son who cares and shows up for his dad, and that is honorable,” Schiffer said.

Prince Harry attends a Terrence Higgins Trust World AIDS Day charity fair in Nottingham, England, on December 1, 2017. Inset, on Tuesday King Charles is seen in public for the first time since his cancer… More MAX MUMBY/INDIGO/GETTY IMAGES
Harry’s visit came as Kate Middleton was continuing her recovery from abdominal surgery in January, while Prince William on Wednesday returned to work three and a half weeks after his last public engagement. The Prince of Wales looked in good spirits as he conducted an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, in which he made Brigadier Tobias Lambert an officer of (the Order of) the British Empire (OBE).

There is, however, no indication that Harry and William will meet to patch up their differences.

Schiffer said: “That relationship will continue to be affected by a death rattle that is not going away. Harry caused such pain, and William will hold that and is not about to let it go.”

Meanwhile, questions are still being asked on British news shows about why Buckingham Place has not revealed the type of cancer Charles was diagnosed with.

“The king has been remarkably transparent and the public loves it, and that authenticity really plays with young people as well,” Schiffer said. “He doesn’t have to go through the micro-elements of the diagnosis at this point.

“Most people understand what it likely is and he will benefit from the support and love of the public, who know he’s going to be really facing a struggle,” he continued. “At the same time, he wants to also do his duty on behalf of the country.”

Prince Harry has given the public a rare update about the development of his two young children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, in a new interview.

Harry and wife, Meghan Markle, live with their children in Montecito, California, where the couple relocated from Britain in 2020 following their controversial split from the monarchy.

The duke and duchess have been conscious to keep their children mostly out of the public eye, however, provided fans with a detailed insight into their family life through home movie footage and snapshots included in their 2022 Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan.

Archie, 4, was born in London in 2019 and was joined by his baby sister, Lilibet, in 2021 who was born in California.

Speaking to Good Morning America‘s Will Reeve in an interview promoting Harry’s work with the Invictus Games in Canada which aired on Friday, the prince provided fans with some rare insight into his children’s development.

Prince Harry photographed in the Netherlands, April 22, 2022 and (inset) the prince with Meghan Markle, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet included in their Netflix docuseries “Harry & Meghan,” 2022. The prince has spoken about… More P VAN KATWIJK/GETTY IMAGES/NETFLIX
Harry’s eagerness to be a father was a prominent theme included in his 2023 memoir, Spare, which he dedicated to his wife and children.

In the book, the prince wrote of his desire to start a family of his own, keen not to repeat the mistakes observed from his childhood. In the summer of 2016 he met Meghan while she was visiting London between filming seasons of the hit legal TV drama, Suits. They began dating and in November 2017, announced their engagement.

The couple were married at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and set about creating their family.

Privacy is an issue that both Meghan and Harry have discussed in regards to their children and their decision to move to America.

In an interview with The Cut magazine in 2022, the duchess told writer Allison P. Davis that “she’d never be able to do school pickup and drop-off without it being a royal photo call with a press pen of 40 people snapping pictures,” had her family remained in Britain.

“Sorry, I have a problem with that,” she said. “That doesn’t make me obsessed with privacy. That makes me a strong and good parent protecting my child.”

The couple both visited Canada this month to mark the one-year waypoint to the 2025 Invictus Games that will be held in Vancouver and Whistler.

At last year’s games, Meghan revealed that the couple were excited to make the games a family event.

“We can’t wait to bring our kids also so they can experience just how awesome this is,” she said.

Over the past year, Prince Harry has faced increased scrutiny over his history with illegal drug taking after making a number of revelations about his experiences and their effects in his hit memoir Spare.

In the book—and interviews promoting it—Harry spoke in detail for the first time about his recreational use of cocaine, magic mushrooms and marijuana (illegal in Britain), as well as psychedelics such as ayahuasca as a form of therapy.

Though the prince made clear he was not wishing to encourage the use of these substances, he faced criticism for potentially doing so.

In a more serious form of backlash, a conservative think tank in the U.S., The Heritage Foundation, is seeking access to Harry’s visa paperwork to see if he disclosed his history with drugs when seeking to enter the country.

Initial attempts to access the paperwork were blocked by the U.S. government, with The Heritage Foundation currently embroiled in legal action seeking to have this blockade removed.

Compilation image showing the Duke of Sussex as photographed at Windsor Castle, April 17, 2021. Harry’s account of his past experimentation with illegal drugs has earned him criticism. VICTORIA JONES – WPA POOL/GETTY IMAGES
As this case remains ongoing, here Newsweek looks at what Harry said about his history with drugs, both in Spare and interviews given since his split from the monarchy in 2020.

‘I Was Trying To Mask Something’

In the 2021 docuseries The Me You Can’t See, developed in collaboration with Oprah Winfrey, Harry discussed how he failed to emotionally process the death of his mother Princess Diana when he was just 12 years old in 1997.

The prince revealed that he spent years trying to “mask” his emotions and in doing so looked to alcohol and drugs.

Prince Harry to Oprah Winfrey in The Me You Can’t See

“I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs. I was willing to do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling. But I slowly became aware that, ok, I wasn’t drinking Monday to Friday but I would probably drink a week’s worth in one day on a Friday or a Saturday night. And I would find myself drinking not because I was enjoying it but because I was trying to mask something.”

Marijuana School Days

In Spare, billed as a “raw” and “unflinching” memoir telling his life story, Harry discussed his introduction to marijuana when he was a schoolboy at the prestigious Eton College near Windsor Castle.

The prince and his school friends would smoke together in a dormitory bathroom, going on to disclose regular use of the drug throughout his life.

Prince Harry in Spare

“I don’t remember how we got the stuff. One of my mates, I expect. Or maybe several. Whenever we found ourselves in possession, we’d commandeer a tiny upstairs bathroom, wherein we’d implement a surprisingly thoughtful, orderly assembly line. Smoker straddled the loo beside the window, second boy leaned against the basin, third and fourth boys sat in the empty bath, legs dangling over, waiting their turns. You’d take a hit or two, blow the smoke out of the window, then move on to the next station, in rotation, until the spliff was gone. Then we’d all head to one of our rooms and giggle ourselves sick over an episode or two of a new show. Family Guy. I felt an inexplicable bond with Stewie, prophet without honor.”

Country Houses and Cocaine

In his book, Harry recounts an incident where a tabloid editor claimed to have photographs of the teenage prince taking cocaine in a bid to convince him to collaborate on an interview.

After calling the editor’s bluff, where no photograph was ever produced, the prince revealed that he had used cocaine at that time, though quickly decided that the effect was not worth the risk associated with it.

At this time though, he said that drugs were an escape from his mental and emotional anguish still impacting him from the death of his mother.

Prince Harry in Spare

“Of course…I had been doing cocaine around this time. At someone’s country house, during a shooting weekend, I’d been offered a line, and I’d done a few more since. It wasn’t much fun, and it didn’t make me particularly happy, as it seemed to make everyone around me, but it did make me feel different, and that was the main goal. Feel. Different. I was a deeply unhappy 17-year-old boy willing to try almost anything that would alter the status quo. That was what I told myself anyway.”

Mushrooms and Ayahuasca

In discussing a way of better connecting with his emotions and past trauma, Harry also revealed in Spare his use of psychedelics. These included magic mushrooms and ayahuasca.

Prince Harry in Spare

“Psychedelics did me some good as well. I’d experimented with them over the years, for fun, but now I’d begun to use them therapeutically, medicinally. They didn’t simply allow me to escape reality for a while, they let me redefine reality. Under the influence of these substances I was able to let go of rigid preconcepts, to see that there was another world beyond my heavily filtered senses, a world that was equally real and doubly beautiful—a world with no red mist, no reason for red mist. There was only truth. After the psychedelics wore off my memory of that world would remain: This is not all there is. All the great seers and philosophers say our daily life is an illusion. I always felt the truth in that. But how reassuring it was, after nibbling a mushroom, or ingesting ayahuasca, to experience it for myself.”

‘These Things Have a Way of Working’

After Spare was published, Harry undertook several interviews promoting it with networks in both the U.S. and U.K.

Speaking to Anderson Cooper for a 60 Minutes special, the prince was asked about his use of psychedelics, after which he made clear he would “never recommend” their recreational use, but accepted that in a controlled environment he found them to be beneficial for his mental health.

Prince Harry to Anderson Cooper, 60 Minutes

Cooper: “You write in the book about psychedelics, Ayahuasca, psilocybin, mushrooms?”

Harry: “I would never recommend people to do this recreationally. But doing it with the right people if you are suffering from a huge amount of loss, grief or trauma, then these things have a way of working as a medicine.”

Cooper: “They showed you something. What did they show you?”

Harry: “For me, they cleared the windscreen, the windshield the misery of loss. They cleared away this idea that I had in my head that—that my mother, that I needed to cry to prove to my mother that I missed her. When in fact, all she wanted was for me to be happy.”

‘Public Interest’

In another interview, this time for a British audience, the prince said that he believed it was “important to acknowledge” his past drugs use, but when questioned whether as a royal prince in line to inherit the throne the media had a right to report on it as a matter of public interest at the time (something he has been critical of), he swerved giving an answer.

Prince Harry to Tom Bradby, ITV

Bradby: “There’s a fair amount of drugs [in the book], um, marijuana, magic mushrooms, cocaine. I mean, that’s gonna surprise people.”

Harry: “But important to acknowledge.”

Bradby: “I mean, I think it’s an example of the scale of honesty. You don’t seem to hold anything back. You tell the story about cocaine through this tabloid editor, you said, came to you and said, ‘I’ve got a picture of you taking cocaine…’”

Harry: “Didn’t come to me, he came to someone else.”

Bradby: “Yeah. OK. ‘But we’re gonna release it unless you give us a tell-all interview,’ whatever it was they wanted. And you say, ‘I called their bluff,’ and you’re quite pleased with it. But I just wanna be clear, are you really saying that, third in line to the throne or whatever you were, you taking a class A drug is not a matter of public interest? Cause I think that’s a question people will have. Do you accept that is a matter of public interest for the press?”

Harry: “I think what’s a matter of public interest is, is the relationship between the institution with the tabloid media. That to me is more public interest in, anything else.”

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have become the focus of a new viral video as fans praised the couple’s relationship in home movie footage that has resurfaced on social media site TikTok.

Harry and Meghan have shared a number of personal insights into their relationship since going public about it in 2017, followed by their large-scale royal wedding a year later.

Since the couple’s dramatic split from the monarchy in 2020, they have presented fans with carefully curated perspectives into their personal lives, most explicitly through their media projects, such as podcasts, documentaries and memoirs.

Uploaded to TikTok by user harry.nd.meghan on February 23, footage of the couple, which was self-shot and included in their bombshell-packed 2022 docuseries for Netflix titled Harry & Meghan, has gone viral, prompting a warm response from supporters.

Composition image showing the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as photographed in London, January 18, 2018. And (inset) as seen in Netflix’s “Harry & Meghan”, 2022. Footage of the couple’s affectionate interactions have gone viral… More BEN BIRCHALL – WPA POOL / GETTY IMAGES/NETFLIX

Captioned “Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are a vibe 🩵,” the video has been viewed over 1.3 million times on the social media site so far, gaining in excess of 36,000 likes and over 800 comments, many of which have praised the couple and their demonstratively affectionate relationship.

“They are just the sweetest!” wrote one TikTok user.

“They are two really super down to earth and real people. Prince Harry is very much like his mother [Princess Diana] was. She was very down to earth and real,” posted another, with a further comment reading: “Such a beautiful couple. Love them and hope they stay strong and continue to love each other. 😅🙏👍.”

Harry and Meghan will celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary in May and their public displays of affection at official appearances have increasingly found popularity on social media, most prolifically on TikTok.

In February, the couple made a three-day visit to Canada where they attended events connected with the one-year waypoint marking for the 2025 Invictus Games, which will be held in Vancouver and Whistler.

During their visit, the couple were photographed holding hands and taking part in winter sports exercises, as well as meeting members of the Invictus community and organizers.

Royal fans have highlighted a subtle tribute to Prince Harry and Princess Diana which is on display in Prince William’s London home at Kensington Palace.

Resurfaced footage from a behind-the-scenes video marking King Charles III’s coronation featuring the tribute has gone viral on social media site TikTok.

The tribute comes as fans have increased their focus on Harry and William’s relationship in recent months, after Harry published his memoir Spare, in 2023, which made several revelations about William.

Among these, the prince said that he and his brother had never been as close as the palace and media had portrayed them to the public, recounting a breakdown in relations in 2019 that led to a physical altercation over Meghan Markle’s treatment of palace staff.

Despite family tensions, social media users have highlighted that just five months after Spare‘s release, William still displayed a touching reminder of his brother at his London home.

The Prince of Wales in London, February 18, 2024. And (inset) a 1995 portrait of William, Prince Harry and Princess Diana as displayed at Buckingham Palace, July 20, 2017. The photograph was spotted by fans… More JORDAN PETTITT – WPA POOL/GETTY IMAGES/TOLGA AKMEN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
The public has rarely seen inside the private apartment at the palace, with the coronation footage presenting an opportunity not only to see the interiors but the objects with which they are decorated—including family photographs.

Captioned “This photo in William’s home,” the viral footage highlights a framed photograph displayed on a piano in one of the reception rooms.

The image shows William alongside Harry and Princess Diana, shot in black and white, in a portrait that was used by the princess for her official Christmas card in 1995.

The portrait was clearly one of Diana’s favorites as she kept a framed copy on her desk, which was carefully reconstructed from her personal items for a display at Buckingham Palace in 2017, marking the 20th anniversary of her death.

The TikTok video highlighting the inclusion of Harry and Diana’s photo in William’s home has been viewed over 120,000 times on the social media site so far, gaining in excess of 6,000 likes and numerous comments.

Prince Harry’s protective gesture towards Meghan Markle during a milestone royal appearance is the focus of a new viral video after footage taken in the aftermath of Queen Elizabeth II’s death in 2022 resurfaced online.

Harry and Meghan will celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary in May. Since splitting from the monarchy in 2020, the couple has spoken in-depth about their relationship across a number of media projects. In his memoir Spare, Harry recounted events that unfolded on the day his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, died and how he had been in Britain at the time to attend charity events with Meghan.

Despite tensions between the couple and members of the royal family still being apparent to the public after being laid bare by Harry and Meghan in their interview with Oprah Winfrey a year earlier, they were reunited in the wake of the monarch’s death.

On September 10, 2022, two days after the queen had died, the couple made their first joint appearance with Prince William and Princess Kate in over two years. The in-laws stepped out together presenting a united front in grief to view floral tributes and meet members of the public outside the gates of Windsor Castle.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex in Windsor, England, on September 10, 2022. Footage of Harry’s PDA with Meghan went viral on TikTok. KIRSTY O’CONNOR – WPA POOL/GETTY IMAGES
Captioned “he will always cover her back!” the clip has been viewed over 22,000 times so far, receiving in excess of 4,800 likes and over 150 comments, many of which have praised the couple.

“What a great man you are Harry; you’re a real prince,” wrote one TikTok user.

“Lovely couple,” posted another, with a further comment reading: “[It] is so Beautiful to see.”

Harry and Meghan’s PDA during the mourning events for the late queen between her death and state funeral was not always universally well received. When the pair were spotted holding hands during the monarch’s lying-in-state ceremony at Westminster Hall on September 14 they were criticized by some social media users and commentators as being disrespectful.

This didn’t deter the couple who were reportedly once again spotted hand-in-hand during the queen’s state funeral at Westminster Abbey five days later.

Atouching public display of affection (PDA) shared between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during their visit to Canada to mark the one-year waypoint to the 2025 Invictus Games has won praise from fans on social media.

The duke and duchess embarked on a three-day visit to Whistler and Vancouver on February 14, to attend a series of events in preparation for next year’s games which will be the first to include winter sports such as adaptive skiing.

The games support and showcase the rehabilitation of wounded, sick and injured ex-armed forces veterans through sports and have formed the core working output of Prince Harry since he co-founded the initiative in 2014.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex photographed in Whistler, Canada, for events marking the one-year waypoint to the 2025 Invictus Games, on February 14, 2024. The couple were spotted holding hands during an event, which… More ANDREW CHIN/GETTY IMAGES/KARWAI TANG/WIREIMAGE
Since he first started dating Meghan in 2016, Harry has included his wife in a number of appearances connected with Invictus. They made their first joint public appearance at the 2017 games in Toronto, and she has attended every major tournament in some way since then. Meghan also featured in Harry’s Heart of Invictus Netflix docuseries which aired in 2023.

On Wednesday, the couple attended the Invictus Games “One Year To Go” training camp in Whistler. Harry took part in some adaptive sports drills in the snow, supported by Meghan as they also met with organizers and participants.

“The Cutest couple,” one TikTok user wrote of the moment highlighted in a post uploaded by user harry.nd.meghan, with another adding: “Oh Canada! Where all the magic began. I love this for them.”

Meghan made a stylish appearance for the occasion wearing a chic new Calvin Klein coat styled with a black knitted beanie hat and boots by the American all-terrain brand, SOREL.

The couple’s visit to Canada marks their first joint public appearance since they attended a premiere screening of the biopic Bob Marley: One Love with movie executives in Jamaica in January.

Harry and Meghan’s entertainment industry careers as content creators producing docuseries and podcasts has become a subject of increased public interest in recent days.

On February 13, Meghan announced through the couple’s newly branded “Office of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex” website that she has signed a new podcasting deal with the audio network, Lemonada.

“I’m proud to now be able to share that I am joining the brilliant team at Lemonada to continue my love of podcasting,” Meghan said in a statement. “Being able to support a female founded company with a roster of thought provoking and highly entertaining podcasts is a fantastic way to kick off 2024.”

The duchess will re-release her 12-episode Archetypes podcast through the network onto open platforms and will record a new show, details of which have yet to be announced.

Meghan Markle’s relationship with her father-in-law, King Charles III, has become the focus of a new viral video after footage from the royal’s 2018 wedding to Prince Harry resurfaced on TikTok.

Meghan’s relationships with members of the royal family were pulled into focus in 2020 after the duchess stepped down as a working member of the monarchy alongside Harry and moved to the U.S.

Meghan joined the royal family upon her marriage to Harry at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, in England, on May 19, 2018. The couple met in 2016 and became engaged a year later. In 2024, they will celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary, and together they have two children: Prince Archie, 4; and Princess Lilibet, 2.

Little is known about Meghan’s relationship with her father-in-law, the king. In her 2022 Netflix docuseries, she described Charles as “charming,” but she did not attend his May 2023 coronation in London with husband Harry; it happened to take place on her son’s fourth birthday.

Uploaded to TikTok by user @europeanroyals_ on March 28, one of Meghan’s most-touching exchanges with Charles has gone viral, spotlighting the moment the then-Prince of Wales walked her down the aisle at her wedding.

The decision for Charles to walk Meghan down the aisle was an unusual one and received widespread coverage at the time. It followed a highly publicized set of events, which saw Meghan’s own father, Thomas Markle, miss the high-profile event following a paparazzi collaboration and medical emergency.

The father of the bride traditionally walks her down the aisle at her wedding. In Markle’s absence, there was speculation that Meghan’s mom, Doria Ragland, would step in to fulfill the role. However, on the day, Charles met his future daughter-in-law halfway through her walk at the chapel and guided her to Harry.

The viral clip has received in excess of 11,200 likes and over 140 comments, many of which have praised the royals and their interaction.

“The love the King shows Meghan is so special,” wrote one TikTok user.

“This was such a touching moment with the king. You can tell he liked Meghan. I’m sad she didn’t go to the coronation,” posted another, with a further comment reading: “Gorgeous wedding. The best royal wedding of all time.”

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It was in the 2022 Harry & Meghan docuseries that Meghan revealed she personally asked Charles to walk her down the aisle at her wedding.

“Harry’s dad is very charming,” she told viewers, before going on to note her own father’s absence.

“I said to him, like, ‘I’ve lost my dad in this.’ So, him as my father-in-law was really important to me,” Meghan said.

“So, I asked him to walk me down the aisle, and he said yes,” she added. “The whole thing was surreal.”

Charles has made few public comments about Harry and Meghan since their split from the monarchy. However, in his accession speech, given in the days after he became king, he made a touching reference to the couple.

“I want also to express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas,” Charles said.