During an interview with actor Dax Shepard on his "Armchair Expert" podcast (via Insider), Prince Harry recalled how he and now-wife Meghan Markle kept prying eyes away from them early on.
"The first time that Meghan and I met up for her to come and stay with me, we met up in a supermarket in London — pretending that we didn't know each other — so, texting from the other side of the aisle," he shared. Other shoppers naturally thought he was acting quite strangely, wandering around the aisles looking for her, while messaging back and forth about which items to find.
The duke explained, "I was there texting her saying, 'Is this the right one?' She goes, 'No, you want parchment paper.' I'm like, 'OK, [whispers] where's the parchment paper?'"
It wasn't Harry's first time in a supermarket, luckily, but, growing up as Princess Diana's son, he acknowledged that there were rarely times when the family wasn't trailed by photographers while out together. Per ET, during the same chat, the prince compared life as a royal to a combination of being in the Jim Carrey movie "The Truman Show" and being an animal, gawked at constantly, in the zoo.
Thankfully, everything has calmed down considerably since Meghan and Harry relocated to California, with a source telling Us Weekly they had "no regrets" about leaving. Further, the Sussexes are enjoying "being a normal family and having the freedom to make their own decisions without anyone watching over them."
