Meanwhile, he also reveals a private conversation said to have taken place between the two women about bridesmaids’ dresses that left Meghan in tears. It came after a dress for Princess Charlotte was said to be too big – but Harry says that Kate did apologise.

In an ITV interview with Tom Bradby in January, Harry admitted Kate and William didn’t get on with Meghan “from the get-go”. Asked why the relationship got off on a bad note, Harry said there were “lots of different reasons”. He went on: “I don’t think they were ever expecting me to get into a relationship with someone like Meghan, who had, you know, a very successful career. There was a lot of stereotyping that was happening, that I was guilty of as well, at the beginning.”

Pushed on what he meant by that, Harry continues: “American actress, and that was playing out in the British press in the media at the time as well. I had that in the back of my mind, and some of the things that my brother and sister-in-law – some of the way that they were acting or behaving definitely felt to me as though unfortunately that stereotyping was causing a bit of a barrier to them really sort of, you know, introducing or welcoming her in.”

Asked specifically what he meant, Harry added: “Well, American actress, divorced, biracial – there’s all different parts to that and what that can mean but if you are, like a lot of my family do, if you are reading the press, the British tabloids, [yeah] at the same time as living the life, then there is a tendency where you could actually end up living in the tabloid bubble rather than the actual reality.”

Yesterday Meghan and Harry cheered on athletes among the crowds at the Invictus Games after walking hand in hand. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were sitting side-by-side clapping and also reacting to the game tensely as they watched the wheelchair basketball with Australia supporters on Wednesday morning in Dusseldorf, Germany. Harry hugged a competitor and shook hands with another during the morning.

The pair were all smiles as they held hands while walking in the Merkur Spiel-Arena, Harry in an Invictus Games polo top and trousers and Meghan wearing a black top with white shorts and a white cardigan with gold buttons. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex handed out medals to children on the basketball court and the couple also posed for photographs with others at the event. It comes after Meghan arrived late at the Invictus Games on Tuesday, saying she had to spend more time getting their “little ones settled at home”.