Prince Harry and Meghan met in a supermarket on their first date

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Prince Harry has revealed how he secretly met Meghan in a supermarket on their first date and pretended not to know her to avoid drawing attention.

Speaking on Dax Shepard’s new Armchair Expert podcast, the Duke of Sussex told of the extreme lengths the couple had to go through just to keep their relationship private.

Harry said: “The first time Meghan and I met up for her to come and stay with me, we met up in a supermarket in London, pretending we didn’t know each other, texting each other from the other side of the aisles.

“There’s people looking at me, giving me all these weird looks, and coming up to me and saying ‘hi’.

“I texted her saying ‘is this the right one’, and she said ‘no you want parchment paper’, and I’m like, “Where’s the parchment paper?”

He added that he was wearing a baseball cap on the day and spent most of the time looking down at the floor, trying to stay “incognito.”

“It’s amazing how much chewing gum you see, it’s a mess,” he joked.

Harry discussed his mental health, growing up in a privileged family, unconscious bias and his time in the military service.

The duke, who is expecting a daughter with wife Meghan and is already father to son Archie, aged two, compared his life to “a mixture between The Truman Show and being in a zoo”.

The Truman Show, which starred Jim Carrey as the main character, was based on an insurance salesman who is oblivious of the fact that his entire life is a TV show and his family members are mere actors.

“I think the biggest issue for me was that being born into it you inherit the risk that comes with it – you inherit every element of it without choice,” Harry said.

“And because of the way that the UK media are, they feel an ownership over you, literally – like a full-on ownership – and then they give the impression to some, well most, of their readers that that is the case.

“But I think it’s a really dangerous place to be if you don’t have a choice. But then of course people, quite rightly, will turn around and go, “so what if you didn’t have a choice? It was privilege,” he said.

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