Though this was their first meeting, McDonald previously told Vanity Fair about her admiration for Markle. “I don’t know how she continues to walk through this world with the grace, strength and purpose that she does given the unbearable amount of vitriol and hate she has been subjected to, but she does. I wish she didn’t have to,” she said in 2023.
Over the years, Meghan Markle has often found herself in New York—having filmed for her TV series Suits in the not-too-far city of Toronto, and it’s also where she and husband Prince Harry had their baby shower when expecting son Archie in 2022.
Prince Harry, meanwhile, was on an unannounced trip to Ukraine meeting victims of the war, military personnel, and civilians, at a facility called the Superhumans Center in Lviv that provides necessary services for free. This follows his recent trip back to the UK where he appeared in court to appeal for publicly funded security detail for his family, which he lost in 2020 after stepping back from royal duties.
