Everything is garbage but at least Prince Harry and Meghan Markle held hands in public

LOVE IS REAL.
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Rachel Thompson
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Not since the Victorian era has the general public been so shook at two people holding hands in public.

But, these two star-crossed, hand-holding lovers are no ordinary people. They're Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. And, they just made their very first public appearance since word got out about their courtship.

Harry and Meghan were every inch the couple as they sat courtside at the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto watching the wheelchair tennis semi-finals between Australia and New Zealand.

Just look at them, smiling and flirting together.

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Is Harry leaning in for a kiss on the cheek?

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Credit: Getty Images for the Invictus Games Foundation

Or, is he merely whispering sweeting nothings in Meghan's ear?

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The cosy couple didn't stop there, though. They even held hands in public!

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OMG THEY'RE HOLDING HANDS! Credit: Chris Jackson/Getty Images for the Invictus Games Foundation

Of course, Harry was playing it super cool. "Pah, hand-holding. NBD," he was thinking to himself.

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Like, seriously Harry and Meghan, we can't handle this nonchalance.

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Meanwhile, some members of the public—commoners, as the royals might say—were basically screaming.

Harry and Meghan sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! (Well, not quite yet!)

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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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