Meghan Markle admitted a ‘girl crush’ Liz Hurley in 2015 as the British actress starred in TV drama The Royals, it has been revealed.
Despite the Duchess of Sussex professing to have known very little about the royal family before she met Prince Harry, she wrote in her resurfaced blog The Tig, which she kept for several years, she admitted she was taking an interest in the drama, which documents a fictional British royal family.
In the show, which aired on E! in the US, Liz Hurley plays Queen Helena, a queen consort who has married into the royal family but is left reeling as the soap-style show begins when her eldest son and heir to the throne, Prince Robert, is killed.
Ahead of the show’s release, Meghan, now 41, wrote in a 2015 post on her now defunct blog which has recently resurfaced which detailed her admiration for the actress, and even conducted a mini-interview with her ahead of the royal drama.
Meghan’s interest in Liz, as well as her apparent excitement about the show about a fictional monarchy, comes as the Duchess insists it only dawned on her that the British royal family were a ‘big deal’ after meeting Prince Harry.
In Meghan Markle’s now-defunct blog The Tig, which has recently resurfaced, the Duchess wrote in a post dated 2015 that she was a huge fan of Liz Hurley and ‘has always loved everything about’ the actress. She added that, as Liz was set to star in E! drama The Royals playing Queen Helena (pictured), which depicts a fictional British royal family, she had ‘an in’ to speak to her
In the Duke and Duchess’s $100 million Netflix docuseries Meghan & Harry, the former Suits actress claimed she knew very little about the British monarchy before being introduced to her now-husband.
However, some may argue her interest in Liz Hurley’s royal series would have given the Duchess something of an education in how the British monarchy works, even if it was played out in a fictional drama.
Meghan did not confirm in her blog post if she has watched the drama, or if she plans to in future, however she did write: ‘I have always loved everything about Liz Hurley’ suggesting she is a huge fan.
The Duchess of Sussex (pictured in October 2019) has insisted on several occasions that she knew very little of the royal family before meeting Prince Harry
The Duchess revealed she ‘had an in’ with the British actress as The Royals was set to debut E!, a network which comes under the NBC Universal umbrella, which also created Meghan’s show Suits.
However, despite the royal drama being Meghan’s hook for a mini-interview with Liz, she did not ask the actress any questions about the TV show or the royal family as she fired off an email to her.
Instead, Liz revealed to Meghan that her nickname is ‘minx’, she loves vodka and that she cannot live without her son Damian, ‘cuddles and giggles’.
It is unclear from Meghan’s blog if she knew much more about the royal family after her brush with the actress playing Queen Helena, however the Duchess has repeatedly insisted over the years she barely had any knowledge about the royal family before marrying into it.
Recalling the time she met Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, for the first time in the Harry & Meghan documentary, she said: ‘Now I’m starting to realize this is a big deal. I mean, Americans will understand this. We have Medieval Times dinner and tournament. It was like that. Like, I curtsied as though I was like… “Pleasure to meet you, your Majesty”.’
She added Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank gave her words of comfort as she admitted she ‘had no idea what [she] was doing’.
In another episode of the documentary, the Duchess revealed she had to Google the British National Anthem (which at the time, was God Save the Queen) so she could practice singing it before appearing at any public events as a senior royal.
Prior to the documentary, in the Duke and Duchess’s explosive sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, Meghan revealed she she didn’t grow up ‘knowing much about the royal family’ and in hindsight, feels she went into it all ‘naively’.
‘I didn’t do any research about what [joining the royal family] would mean,’ she told the TV mogul, continuing: ‘I never looked up my husband online.’
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