In light of all that has been revealed in the Duke and Duchess's docuseries, L'OFFICIEL gives a rundown of their complete relationship timeline.

Ever since news spread of the relationship between <a href="https://www.instagram.com/princeandprincessofwales/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prince Harry and Meghan Markle</a>, the world can't stop talking about the couple. Even six years after word broke, the relationship between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex continues to make numerous headlines. After being the subject of so many stories, told by people other than themselves, the couple recently released their docuseries, <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/culture/meghan-markle-prince-harry-netflix-docuseries-release-date-trailer-details" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harry &amp; Meghan</a>,&nbsp;to finally tell the world their story from their point of view.
With the docuseries having already reached the top watched list on Netflix, it's clear that the hunger for the inside scoop about the couple and their ties to the royal family has only intensified. Whether you've already watched the docuseries and need a recap on the events that ensued or are just curious about the rundown on one of the world's most talked about couples, L'OFFICIEL has provided the complete timeline of Harry and Meghan's relationship.

July 2016: Prince Harry and Meghan meet.

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The meeting of Prince Harry and Meghan was completely unexpected and done by the hands of fate (or more accurately, friends). In the first episode of Harry &amp; Meghan, Meghan explains that a friend reached out to her saying "Prince Haz" was interested in meeting her. As Prince Harry recalls, he was scrolling through Instagram and came across a post of Meghan and was completely enamored.
Before reaching out to him, Meghan went through his Instagram feed to get a sense of what Harry is actually about (not how he is portrayed by the media), was intrigued by what she saw, and agreed to exchange numbers. From there, they grabbed a drink in London and Meghan thought Harry was "refreshingly fun."&nbsp;

August 2016: Prince Harry and Meghan spend a week in Botswana.

After weeks of back-and-forth texting and Facetime calls, the couple desperately wanted to see each other again face to face. Harry was already heading to Botswana, and Meghan was free for the week, so she agreed to travel with him where they would spend a week isolated from the world in Africa. With no cell phone service, no plumbing, and having to share a tent, the couple had their initial awkward moments but found their footing as it "just felt so right," said Harry.

October 2016: News break that Prince Harry and Meghan are rumored to be dating.

After months of secretly dating, the press finally finds out that Harry and Meghan are dating and spread the news. Having been alerted a day before that the news was going to come out, the couple used their last day of freedom partying with friends at a Halloween party.

November 2016: Prince Harry confirms dating rumors.

Prince Harry confirmed the dating rumors after <a href="https://www.royal.uk/statement-communications-secretary-prince-harry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting an unexpected statement</a> regarding the unfair and unjust negative press Meghan has been subjected to. Part of the statement read, "But the past week has seen a line crossed. His girlfriend, Meghan Markle, has ben subject to a wave of abuse and harassment. Some of this has been very public&mdash;the smear on the front page of a national newspaper; the racial undertones of comment pieces; and the outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments."

May 2017: Harry and Meghan attend their first public event together.

On May 6, 2017, Prince Harry and Meghan attend their first public event as a couple at a charity polo match. As Prince Harry competed on the second day of the Audi Polo Challenge, Meghan supported him from the stands.

September 2017: Meghan opens up about her relationship to Vanity Fair.

In a <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/09/meghan-markle-cover-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cover story with Vanity Fair</a>, Meghan opened up about life after dating Prince Harry. Through all the gossip and never-ending tabloids, she expressed that "we're two people who are really happy and in love...Nothing about me changed. I'm still the same person that I am, and I've never defined myself about my relationship."

November 2017: Prince Harry and Meghan get engaged.

On November 27, 2017, Prince Harry and Meghan announced their engagement. Per the docuseries, the couple revealed that their engagement photoshoot and interview were completely rehearsed and were told what to say and do in front of the camera. While the series of public events from the day weren't necessarily organic, the excitement was still very much real. The engagement ring was custom designed by Prince Harry and consisted of a center diamond sourced from Botswana and two side stones from the late <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/fashion/princess-diana-royal-portrait-dress-1991-sothebys-auction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princess Diana's</a> jewelry collection.

December 2017: Prince Harry and Meghan complete their first walkabout.

After their engagement was announced, the couple completed their first royal task by participating in a walkabout. If you're asking what a walkabout is, know that Meghan asked the same thing: "I never saw pictures or videos of a walkabout. Like, what's a walkabout?" A walkabout is simply when members of the royal family walk through the streets as they greet fans and well-wishers.

December 2017: Prince Harry and Markle spend Christmas at Sandringham.

For Meghan's first Christmas spent with the royals, she and Harry spent time with the family at Sandringham followed by their attendance at the royals' Christmas dinner. In the third episode of Harry &amp; Meghan, Meghan recalls having a wonderful time throughout the day, "I remember so vividly the first <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/kardashian-luxury-christmas-gifts-wish-list" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christmas</a> at Sandringham, calling my mom, and she's like 'How&rsquo;s it going?' and I said 'Oh my gosh it&rsquo;s amazing'."

May 16, 2018: Prince Harry and Meghan have a private wedding.

In her interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan unveiled that she and Prince Harry had a private wedding three days before the televised royal one. "Three days before our wedding, we got married &mdash; no one knows that &mdash; but we called the Archbishop and said, 'This thing, this spectacle is for the world, but we want our union between us.' So the vows that we have framed in our room are just the two of us in our backyard with the Archbishop of Canterbury," Meghan said.

May 19, 2018: Prince Harry and Meghan have a royal wedding.

There's nothing like a royal fairytale wedding. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex got married at St. George's Chapel in Windsor on May 19, 2018. The wedding was one of the largest televised events of the year as more than 1 billion people tuned in to watch. The wedding itself was no small matter as around 600 guests attended the event, including A-listers such as Serena Williams, Priyanka Chopra, George and Amal Clooney, David and Victoria Beckham, Oprah Winfrey, Idris Elba, and <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/men/elton-john-greatest-hits-fashion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elton John</a>.&nbsp;

October 2018: Meghan is confirmed to be pregnant with her first child.

After an anonymous source <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/prince-harry-meghan-markle-are-trying-for-a-baby/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told US Weekly</a> that Meghan and Prince Harry were trying for a baby, their desires seemed to come true as Meghan was publicly confirmed to be pregnant in October 2018. The Kensington Palace released a statement to announce the pregnancy that read, "Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Sussex is expecting a baby in the Spring of 2019. Their Royal Highnesses have appreciated all of the support they have received from people around the world since their wedding in May and are delighted to be able to share this happy news with the public."

March 2019: Prince Harry and Meghan split joint "court" from Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Prince Harry and Meghan&nbsp;split joint "courts" from Prince William and Kate Middleton. The split simply means the couple moved their residence to Frogmore Cottage and moved their personal court of media and staffers from Kensington Palace to Buckingham Palace. While the split came as a shock, it did not mean that there was bad blood between the two families.
As reported by royal author Sally Bedell Smith to People Magazine, "The arrival of Meghan has changed the dynamic of the relationship in a fairly significant way. It is inevitable and practical because it gives Harry and Meghan some freedom to build up their own collection of interests and charities. Meghan has very strong views on what she is interested in and that may be what Harry shares, but not what William and Kate share."

May 2019: Harry and Meghan welcome their first child into the world.

On May 6, 2019, <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/politics-culture/why-archie-is-not-a-prince-harry-meghan-markle-son" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Archie </a><a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/politics-culture/why-archie-is-not-a-prince-harry-meghan-markle-son" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harrison Mountbatten Windsor</a> was welcomed into the world. After his birth, Prince Harry spoke to the press to announce the exciting news. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m very excited to announce that Meghan and myself had a baby boy this morning, a very healthy baby boy,&rdquo; Prince Harry told the press. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s been the most amazing experience I can ever possibly imagine ... This little thing is absolutely to die for.&rdquo;

September 2019: Harry, Meghan, and Archie travel to South Africa for their first royal tour as a family.

Once a royal baby is born, it is tradition for the family to travel around on a tour to present the baby to the world. Four months after Archie was born, the Duke and Duchess took their first royal tour as a family to South Africa.

October 2019: Markle sues Associated Newspapers Limited for publishing a private letter sent to her father.

The British media's ruthless attack on Meghan continued as The Mail On Sunday&nbsp;published parts of a private letter for the world to see, originally sent by Meghan to her father, Thomas Markle. Meghan ultimately filed a lawsuit against the media company on the issue of privacy and copyright. Prior to their lawsuit, for months the couple had tried to work with the palace to take legal action, however, nothing was being done. As said by Meghan in the fifth episode of the docuseries, "that litigation served as a cataylst of everything unraveling."
While Meghan ends up winning the lawsuit, Prince Harry expressed in a statement the frustrations he's felt by the endless attacks by the media against his wife: "Unfortunately, my wife has become one of the latest victims of a British tabloid press that wages campaigns against individuals with no thought to the consequences &ndash; a ruthless campaign that has escalated over the past year, throughout her pregnancy and while raising our newborn son...To stand back and do nothing would be contrary to everything we believe in&hellip;There comes a point when the only thing to do is to stand up to this behaviour, because it destroys people and destroys lives.&rdquo;

January 2020: Harry and Meghan step back as senior royals.

After a previous announcement about taking time off to focus on their family and then deciding to spend Christmas away from Sandringham and instead visit Meghan's mom, Doria Ragland, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex officially announced they would be stepping back from their duties as senior members of the Royal Family. Originally the plan was to only reduce their roles. As Meghan said, "We were stepping back, not stepping down, but just to have a reduced role."
Later that month, once Meghan was back in Canada with Archie, Prince Harry, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, and other senior royals were called into a roundtable meeting at Sandringham. In the docuseries, Harry explains that he was, essentially, presented with five options for how to move forward in which he chose option three: "Half in, half out. We would have our own jobs while still working in support of the Queen." However, it was clear to Harry that he was officially in a position where he was battling against those who were choosing obligations to the Institution over supporting the family. It was this time when a "wedge was put in between [Harry] and his brother."
Once a story came out that Prince William was bullying Meghan and the palace quickly worked to squash the story, it was clear to Harry and Meghan that the palace would never be willing to protect them as they would other members of the family. It was that moment in which they made the decision to step down from their roles completely.

March 2020: Prince Harry and Meghan move to Canada and have their "Farewell Week."

The official signifier of Prince Harry and Meghan's exit from the royal family (deemed Megxit), the couple packed their bags in the UK and moved their family to Vancouver Island. In January 2020, the couple had already been in talks of moving to Canada. The pack of the royal rota (UK press) is based in London, so Harry and Meghan's moving meant that they would no longer have to deal with the endless negative press nor would the palace continue turning a blind eye.&nbsp;
The couple also had their UK "Farewell Week," in which they had back-to-back engagements all week long saying goodbye to the public and officially letting go of their royal responsibilities. This served as the last time the couple would be with the royal family on an engagement.&nbsp;

Late March 2020: Harry, Meghan, and Archie temporarily live at Tyler Perry's house in Los Angeles.

Shortly after going to Canada Harry received word that the royal family would be removing all of their security. With everyone knowing where the couple lives, and now having no security, Harry &amp; Meghan desperately needed to move somewhere else for their own safety. On top of this, the COVID-19 pandemic had started to move rapidly through North America. Meghan ended up getting in touch and connecting with Tyler Perry, who offered the couple a place to stay at his house for as long as they would like. With the world shut down because of the pandemic, and nobody knowing that Harry and Meghan were at Perry's house, the couple was finally given a moment to take a breather.&nbsp;

July 2020: Meghan suffers from a miscarriage.

In a personal opinion piece <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/opinion/meghan-markle-miscarriage.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">written for The New York Times</a> in November 2020, Meghan shared that she suffered from a <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/prince-charles-william-support-harry-meghan-markle-miscarriage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">miscarriage</a> in July 2020. "Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few," she wrote. "In the pain of our loss, my husband and I discovered that in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered from miscarriage. Yet despite the staggering commonality of this pain, the conversation remains taboo, riddled with (unwarranted) shame, and perpetuating a cycle of solitary mourning."
Amidst this tragic period of time, the couple also <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/prince-harry-unhappy-move-united-states-meghan-markle-royal-family" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly moved</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;Montecito, CA (where they still live).

September 2020: Prince Harry and Meghan announce upcoming Netflix project.

In a statement, the couple announced they would be working with Netflix to share their passions whilst also providing a platform to shed light on others within their community and around the world: "As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us, as is powerful storytelling through a truthful and relatable lens. We are pleased to work with Ted and the team at Netflix whose unprecedented reach will help us share impactful content that unlocks action."

February 2021: Meghan is confirmed to be pregnant with the couple's second child.

On <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/film-tv/valentines-day-movies-to-stream-netflix-hulu-hbo-max-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Valentine's Day</a>, the couple officially confirmed they were expecting their second child. A spokesperson <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/meghan-markle-pregnant-expecting-2nd-child-with-prince-harry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told US Weekly</a> that the couple was excited for this sweet addition to their growing family: "We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother,&rdquo; the source said. &ldquo;The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child.&rdquo;

March 2021: Prince Harry and Meghan sit down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The moment when numerous truths were revealed and hidden skeletons came out of the closet, Harry and Meghan didn't hold back in their interview with Oprah Winfrey. From unveiling that members of the royal court inquired about "how dark [Archie's] skin might be after he's born" to the couple feeling unprotected by the family, viewers learned more about Harry and Meghan's royal experience than we have ever had before.&nbsp;

June 2021: Prince Harry and Meghan welcome their second child into the world.

On June 4, 2021, <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/meghan-markle-prince-harry-share-family-christmas-card-2021-first-photo-baby-lilibet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor</a> entered the world. In a statement, the couple expresses their joy for the birth of their daughter and their gratitude for all the well-wishes: "On June 4, we were blessed with the arrival of our daughter, Lili. She is more than we could have ever imagined, and we remain grateful for the love and prayers we've felt from across the globe. Thank you for your continued kindness and support during this very special time for our family."

September 2022: Prince Harry and Meghan attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

After the death of <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/pop-culture/queen-elizabeth-strips-prince-andrew-royal-military-titles-jeffrey-epstein-sexual-abuse-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queen Elizabeth II</a>, the couple joined Prince William and Middleton at Windsor Castle where they greeted the public. They later attended the memorial service at Westminster Hall followed by the funeral service at Westminster Abbey.

December 2022: Harry &amp; Mehgan released on Netflix.

The couple dropped their highly anticipated docuseries <a href="https://www.lofficielibiza.com/culture/meghan-markle-prince-harry-netflix-docuseries-release-date-trailer-details" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harry &amp; Meghan</a> in which the pair recounts the series of events that have happened throughout their relationship. Viewers are given a glimpse into Harry and Meghan's world, but this time it's on their terms. From the opening scene, Harry and Meghan express that so many people have talked and written about them (people that they've never met) and so this docuseries is their chance to give their point of view on their own story.&nbsp;

March 3, 2023: Prince Harry and Meghan's daughter Lilibet is christened.

On March 3, 2023, the couple held a small christening ceremony for their daughter Lilibet at their home in Montecito, California. <a href="https://people.com/royals/meghan-markle-prince-harry-daughter-princess-lilibet-christened-california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to People</a>, there were around 20-30 guests. Of those guests, King Charles,&nbsp;Queen Camilla,&nbsp;Prince William,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Kate Middleton were not in attendance, though they were given an invite.

March 2023: Prince Harry and Meghan are invited to King Charles's coronation.

Since the plans for King Charles's coronation went underway and after Prince Harry released his memoir, one of the biggest questions asked was regarding the attendance of Prince Harry and Meghan. Would they be invited? And if so, would they attend? Well, the first question has been addressed as there's been official confirmation that the couple has received an invite to the coronation. Though they have been invited, there is still no word on whether or not the couple plans on attending.&nbsp;

A Complete Timeline of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's Relationship

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