The author said: He was very welcoming to Meghan because of course she was a newcomer and a very different newcomer, but of course at the time of Meghan and Harry’s romance, he wasn’t around nearly as much because he’d retired.
“So he didn’t see very much of Meghan at all. So he didn’t really have a chance to form a relationship with her.”
Despite this, he was apparently pleased with the relationship and made a special effort to be there for their wedding in May 2018 despite having an operation just weeks before.
Ms Seward said: “He was determined that he was going to go to the wedding because he literally just had a hip operation six weeks before, which is a really good example of him being absolutely determined that whatever happened, he was gonna walk down that aisle at the wedding and take his seat and he was not gonna have a [cane] and he was not going to have a wheelchair.
