Meghan and the Queen have first Harry-free royal adventure together

They're basically BFFs now.
 By 
Rachel Thompson
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Take a deep breath, everyone. Two of your favourite people on earth just shared their first official visit together.

Meghan Markle and the Queen have just arrived in Cheshire on their very first joint public engagement alone together.

After the pair spent the night on the Royal Train, the Duchess of Sussex and the Queen arrived in Chester where they'll be conducting a "day of engagements".

The day marks Meghan's first royal engagement without Prince Harry.

This could be the start of a budding friendship.

Topics Celebrities

Rachel Thompson, sits wearing a dress with yellow florals and black background.
Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

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