Prince Harry was out of the country for Valentine’s Day this year, and because she’s likely in her third trimester of pregnancy, Meghan couldn't join him. However, Harry managed to stay super close to the Duchess of Sussex despite them being thousands of miles apart, because he spent it in a Meghan and Harry 'shrine'.
The Duke of Sussex, in his role as Captain General of the Royal Marines, spent the day with them, in Bardufoss, 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle, where the average February temperature is -12C. He was there to see how the Royal Marines train out in the cold, bleak wilderness, but they treated him to more than just training drills.
On his arrival, the British servicemen had created a makeshift igloo for him, filled with framed images of the Royal Wedding, candles and soft music. Of course, Harry was just as weirded out as all of us by it.
'You weirdos,' Harry laughed when entering the igloo. 'It’s very kind of you to invite me into your private shrine or whatever you want to call it. And the music, is that part of it? Very romantic.'
Clearly eager to get back to the real deal, Harry spent three hours on the training base in Norway before travelling back to Kensington Palace by private plane to spend the evening with Meghan.
After a hectic week of joint engagements, we don't doubt a romantic night in was exactly what the Duke and Duchess needed. Especially after Harry spent the day training with the military.
The military exercise he practiced is called Exercise Clockwork, and happens once a year, training over 16,000 Royal Marines and Royal Navy sailors and airmen for 50 years.
While her love will be away, Meghan’s not short on love in the UK, as Victoria Beckham has recently spoken very highly of the royal.
When asked by an American talkshow about what it was like seeing Meghan wearing a Victoria Beckham design on the much-photographed and publicised royals’ trip to church on Christmas Day, Victoria replied: ’She looked so beautiful. It was such a lovely surprise to wake up to on Christmas morning. I think that she's such a beautiful, strong, wonderful woman, so it was a huge honour.’
Back to Meghan, even that supposed Kate-Meghan feud has well and truly been buried, if clothes, the fortune-telling tea-leaves of royal rules of engagement, are to be believed. The Duchess of Cambridge has apparently made a supportive nod to the Duchess of Sussex in a royal appearance. Through her clothes. Kate wore a blue-green tartan Alexander McQueen coat-dress to the opening of the V&A museum in Dundee, which looks strikingly reminiscent of Meghan’s green-blue tartan Burberry coat-dress she recently wore to her first visit to Scotland last year. Could this be Kate’s tacit nod to Meghan, a settling of that feud? Or do they just like similar clothes? Either way, the coat dress reminds us that these two women, both famous, both under pressure to perform and look great while doing so, are hardly worlds apart.
Anyway, as you look forward to the prospect of Valentine’s Day - whether that’s going out for a fancy dinner or staying in because going out is a rip off, ignoring the whole thing or organising a galentines’ night for you and your pals because, can’t romantic friendship be just as legit and fulfilling as romance-romance? - if you’re facing an evening apart from your other half for whatever reason, you’ll still be in good, royal company.