Meghan Markle says a crew member on her final flight from the UK thanked her for her service to the country: 'It was the first time I felt like someone saw the sacrifice'
- Meghan Markle opened up about her flight leaving the UK after her last engagement as a senior royal.
- She said a crew member knelt down next to her, took off his hat, and thanked her for her service to the UK.
In the newest installment of their docuseries "Harry & Meghan," Prince Harry and Meghan Markle discussed what it was like in their final days as senior royals.
And Meghan said she had a touching moment with a crew member on her flight as she said goodbye to her brief but tumultuous time in the UK.
The couple had just left their final engagement at Westminster Abbey celebrating Commonwealth Day on March 9, 2020, and were racing to the airport.
"Unpinned the hat, quickly took this green dress off, threw on some clothes for the plane, I was saying goodbye," Meghan recalled. "Of course it was emotional."
After she and Prince Harry got on the plane, Meghan said a member of the crew came over, knelt next to her seat, and took his hat off.
"I just remember looking at him and he goes, 'We appreciate everything you did for our country,'" Meghan said. "And it was the first time that I felt like someone saw the sacrifice, not for my own country, but for this country."
The couple were headed back to Vancouver Island in Canada, where they had been staying in hopes of escaping the press while figuring out their next chapter in the royal family.
After the couple landed in Canada, Meghan said she collapsed in the arms of one of Prince Harry's security guards.
"I just collapsed in his arms crying," Meghan said. "I was like, 'I tried so hard.' He goes, 'I know you did. I know you did ma'am. I know you did.'"
"I tried so hard," she added. "And that's the piece that's so triggering because you go, 'And it still wasn't good enough and you still don't fit in.'"
But Meghan said she was surprised by how much love she and Harry were shown by the public during their farewell tour in the UK in March 2020.
"The people were just so embracing," she continued. "They were sad that we were leaving, and we were sad that we were leaving."
But the same couldn't be said for how the couple felt in their last engagement with the royal family.
"I felt really distant from the rest of my family, which was interesting because so much of how they operate is what it looks like rather than what it feels like," Prince Harry said.
"And it looked cold — but it also felt cold," he said.