A guide to all of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's friends who appear in their Netflix docuseries
Samantha Grindell
- Volume I of "Harry & Meghan" featured interviews with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's friends.
- Meghan met Abigail Spencer on "Suits," and Harry has known Prince Seeiso of Lesotho since 2004.
Meghan Markle has been friends with producer Lindsay Jill Roth since college.
Roth is a producer and the author of the novel "What Pretty Girls Are Made Of," as stated on her website.
According to People, Roth and Meghan became close after meeting in a Toni Morrison literature class as freshmen at Northwestern University.
"We're the kind of friends who can be 3,000 miles away and still be talking about or thinking the same thing, and even texting each other the same thing at the same time miles away," Roth told People of her friendship with Meghan.
Meghan was even the maid of honor at Roth's wedding, according to People.
Serena Williams is one of Meghan's most famous friends to appear in "Harry & Meghan."
Williams, often referred to as the GOAT, is a world-renowned tennis star, and she also happens to be one of Meghan's closest friends.
Williams and Meghan met in 2010, but they didn't become friends until they participated in the DirecTV Beach Bowl in 2014.
Williams attended Meghan and Harry's wedding, and Meghan has often been spotted supporting Williams at her tennis matches.
And when Meghan launched her Archetypes podcast in 2022, Williams was her first guest.
Jill Smoller is Serena Williams' longtime agent.
The sports agent is a vice president and partner at WME Agency.
Smoller's most notable client is Serena Williams, though she also represents Allyson Felix and Sabrina Ionescu, according to the Sports Business Journal.
Smoller did not say how she and Meghan became friends in "Harry & Meghan," but it's likely they met because of their connection through Williams.
Prince Seeiso of Lesotho was the only foreign royal invited to Harry and Meghan's 2018 wedding.
Prince Seeiso is King Letsie III of Lesotho's younger brother, much like Harry is Prince William's younger brother.
As Prince Seeiso and Prince Harry shared in "Harry & Meghan," the royals have been friends since 2004, when Harry went on an extended trip to Lesotho amid a flood of negative press stories about him in the UK.
The pair ended up becoming close friends, drawn together by their love of giving back, with Prince Seeiso saying in the docuseries he felt a "warmth" and willingness to learn from Harry.
"I could see that Harry is very much his mother," Seisso said. In a clip shown in the documentary, Harry added that Seisso's mother inspired their work to help children with AIDs.
"His mother died shortly before I met him. Bearing in mind we both lost our mums, it didn't take very long until we became like brothers," Harry said in "Harry & Meghan" of his friendship with Seisso, with Harry going on to visit Lesotho almost annually after their initial meeting.
The princes went on to co-found the charity Sentebale together, and Seeiso and his wife were the only foreign royals invited to Meghan and Harry's wedding.
Harry met Ignacio "Nacho" Figueras through one of his charitable organizations.
Figueras is an international polo player and model, serving as the longtime face of Ralph Lauren.
Speaking to Insider about the royal in 2019, Figueras said Harry was "inspiring" and that philanthropy played a critical role in their friendship.
"Of course, I think the fact that we both feel the same way about giving back obviously helps you to have a good relationship," he said.
Meghan met Silver Tree on "Suits."
Tree is a director known for her work on shows like "Dead to Me," "You," "Shameless," and "The Flight Attendant."
According to IMDb, she was also an executive producer on "Suits" and directed 10 episodes of the series, which is where she met Meghan.
In the docuseries, Tree praised Meghan's acting skills. "She'd just bring this, like, lightness," she said. "And for a director, she is such a simple actor in that she is always natural, but is absolutely trusting. She didn't overthink it, she just did it."
Tree also posted a lengthy statement about Meghan on Instagram in 2021 after Buckingham Palace said it was looking into bullying allegations against her, calling her "one of my very nearest and dearest" and listing the selfless acts she's done for Tree over the years, including supporting her after her son got a "scary, complicated" medical diagnosis.
Meghan also became good friends with Abigail Spencer on "Suits."
Spencer has had recurring roles in shows like "Grey's Anatomy," "Timeless," "Rectify," and of course, "Suits."
Spencer and Meghan became close while working on "Suits" together, and Spencer attended Meghan's wedding and her 2019 baby shower.
"Meghan Markle is one of the loveliest human beings on the planet, in the world," Spencer told People of Meghan in 2018. "I'm just so excited that the world will get to experience her loveliness, and I really think that with her platform for charity and her fortitude — she's going to have a great moment to change the world. If anyone can do it, it can be her."
Harry's childhood friend Nicky spoke about how the royal dealt with the loss of Princess Diana.
Nicky, whose last name was omitted from the show, met Harry when they were 13 at Eton, as he shared in the series. He said they lived next door to each other.
In "Harry & Meghan," Nicky reflected on watching Princess Diana's funeral, saying he wasn't sure how to speak to Harry about his mother's death when they were young.
Chantelle Humphrey was Meghan's personal assistant.
As stated in the series, Humphrey worked for Meghan as her personal assistant. It was unclear when she worked for her.
In the series, Humphrey said Meghan had a "beautiful life" in Toronto "before everything exploded" when her relationship with Harry went public.
Vicky Tsai owns the beauty brand Tatcha.
Tatcha is a skincare and beauty brand Tsai founded after a trip to Japan in 2009.
According to Tatler, Tsai lives in Montecito, California, where Meghan and Harry now reside.
Dhru Purohit discussed his reaction to finding out Meghan was dating Harry in the docuseries.
According to his Instagram, Purohit is a podcast host and entrepreneur.
The documentary didn't specify how Purohit and Meghan met, though he did previously contribute to Meghan's now defunct blog, The Tig.
In the docuseries, he shared the excitement he felt when her relationship with Harry became public.
Nick Collins was Meghan's agent until 2021.
Collins represented Meghan while she was on "Suits" and after her acting career.
He worked for Meghan through 2021, helping her and Harry with their step back from royal life, according to the Daily Mail.
The outlet reported that unnamed sources said Collins was a "key advisor and independent voice" for the couple as they planned their new life in California.
Lucy Fraser attended Harry and Meghan's private engagement party.
Fraser is a former public-relations specialist, according to the Daily Mail, and as shown in "Harry & Meghan," she's been friends with Meghan since before she met Harry.
In episode one of the series, Fraser said she warned Meghan about the British press, and she revealed Meghan and Harry had a secret engagement party before they publicly announced they would be getting married.
"They were gonna keep [their engagement] quiet because it was gonna be announced a few weeks later," Fraser said, speaking of the formal announcement that was made on November 27, 2017. "We had a little engagement party, and everyone was dressed in animal onesies."
"Meg and Harry were dressed in matching penguin onesies, because penguins mate for life," she said. "And they were so sweet. And we had so much fun."
Meghan and Susan Williger have been friends since they were in seventh grade.
Williger is a marketing and communications director for a golf club, according to her LinkedIn, and she's a mother, as listed on her Instagram bio.
As Williger shared in "Harry & Meghan," she met the future duchess when they were in middle school.
"I met Meghan in the seventh grade," she said. "We were walking into all of our new classes, and she was holding the door open, and tap dancing, and we became fast friends."
Misan Harriman is a photographer who has taken pictures of Harry and Meghan.
Harriman is a world-renowned photographer, as well as the chair of Southbank Centre, a cultural center in the UK.
Harriman has documented moments in Meghan and Harry's lives on multiple occasions.
Most recently, he photographed them ahead of the One Young World Summit in September 2022.
Meghan revealed she has a close relationship with her niece, Ashleigh Hale, in episode three of the series.
In episode three, Meghan introduced her niece, Ashleigh Hale, who is the daughter of Samantha Markle, Meghan's estranged half-sister.
As Hale shared in "Harry & Meghan," she was not raised by Samantha. Instead, her paternal grandparents raised her and her brother, and eventually adopted them.
Hale is an immigration attorney, as Insider previously reported.
Meghan and Hale connected in 2007, and they grew close, taking trips together and speaking frequently, as they shared in the docuseries.
"I think she takes on a lot of roles for me. There's a sister element, there's something maternal," Hale said of Meghan. "She's a best friend, she's kind of all the things."
Hale said she stopped speaking to her biological mother after Meghan and Harry's relationship became public.
"After the news first broke, Samantha pretty quickly began expressing a lot of angry words about Meg towards me. What was communicated to me was maybe some resentment," she said in the docuseries. "And it felt like no matter what I said, you know, her perspective didn't change and seemed to get angrier and bigger."
The royal family also advised Meghan not to invite Hale to her wedding because of the way it would look to invite Hale but not Samantha.
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