Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's 'incognito' night out with Princess Eugenie and husband
Prince Harry is close pals with his cousin Princess Eugenie, and they once enjoyed a fun Halloween with their respective spouses Meghan Markle and Jack Brooksbank.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may be estranged from the core members of the Royal Family since they relocated to the US, however the Duke has maintained his friendship with Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank.
The cousins were seen chatting and laughing together when Harry made a brief visit to the UK for the Coronation in May this year, and Eugenie has also been to Los Angeles to see Harry in his new life.
In his memoir Spare the Prince recalled introducing Meghan to his cousin, writing: "I remember Euge hugging Meg, as if they were sisters. I remember [Harry's friend] Charlie giving me a thumbs-up. I remember thinking: If meeting the rest of my family goes like this, we're home free."
In a November 2021 interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show the Duchess also shared an insight into a night out that the four had enjoyed one Halloween, before it was known that she was in a relationship with Harry.
She said: "The four of us just snuck out in Halloween costumes to just have one fun night out on the town before it was out in the world that we were a couple."
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Harry and Meghan's relationship shares a touching similarity to Eugenie and Jack's, as both couples got married in the same year in the same venue.
The Sussexes tied the knot in a ceremony broadcast around the world at St George's Chapel in Windsor on May 19, 2018, with Harry's cousin walking up the same aisle five months later on October 12.
In Spare Harry revealed that he and Meghan had delayed the start of their first royal tour so they could attend Eugenie and Jack's big day.
He said: "Euge was getting married, to Jack, and we were deliriously happy for them and for ourselves, selfishly, since Jack was one of our favourite people. Meg and I were supposed to head off on our first official foreign tour as a married couple, but we delayed the departure several days, so we could be at the wedding."
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Eugenie and Jack are now parents to August, two, and Ernest, four months, with the family currently splitting their time between UK and Portugal due to Jack's work.
While in the UK they are based at Ivy Cottage in the grounds of Kensington Palace, and in Portugal they are residing close to the CostaTerra Ocean & Golf Club, where Jack is helping to manage a huge property development.
It is believed their second home inspired Harry and Meghan in their recent choice of romantic getaway, as following the Invictus Games in Germany the Sussexes jetted to Portugal for a few days.
Portuguese outlet Nova Gente reported that Harry and Meghan arrived in the country without their children in tow and stayed in Melides in the Alentejo region.
According to eyewitnesses the couple flew out of Lisbon on September 20 on a British Airways flight to London Heathrow, before carrying on home to Los Angeles.
The publication said: "After the Invictus Games finished, on Saturday September 16, the couple headed to our country for a lightning trip.
"In a mega-secret 'operation', and with the reserve that has characterized them since they abdicated their royal duties in 2020, Meghan and Harry preferred not to publicize, either through the press or through their social networks, this 'romantic getaway'."
