Meghan Markle watches the NHL game between the Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks at Rogers Arena on November 20.Photo:Derek Cain/Getty
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Meghan MarkleandPrince Harrywere spotted in the stands of the Vancouver Canucks hockey game with an old friend who helped bring them together.
TheDaily Mailpreviously reported that Meghan has described him as one of her “closest friends in the world.” A bio onMr Porterstates that Anderson is the Chief Membership Officer of Soho House, a private members’ club with locations around the globe.
Meghan, 42, and Harry, 39,famously had their first dateat the exclusive club’s London hub in July 2016, and theycontinued to returnto the club during their transatlantic courtship before getting engaged the following fall.
Meghan Markle watches the NHL game between the Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks at Rogers Arena on November 20.Derek Cain/Getty
While Prince Harry wrote in his memoirSparethat he and Meghan first connected on Instagram after she spotted her photo there with a mutual friend named Violet, theDaily Mailreported that Anderson “arranged for the couple to meet secretly in private rooms” at Soho House in Toronto and London.
Anderson helped open Soho House’s first Canadian location in downtown Toronto in 2012, where Meghan lived while filmingSuits. The two reportedly ran in the same social circle for years, and Anderson often appeared on Meghan’s eponymous Instagram,which was deletedahead of her royal wedding in May 2018.
Meghan’s Instagram documented many dinners, get-togethers and fun times with Anderson, including a vacation to Spain in 2016.
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“What would I do without you, my loving, supportive, and endlessly fun friend??” Meghanwrote in a postcelebrating her pal’s birthday that August. “I know what….I would be bored, and life would be infinitely less interesting. I love you SO much.”
Meghan’s friend also came out to support her at theMs. Foundation Women of Vision Awardsin New York City in May. The Duchess of Sussex was honored as a Woman of Vision Award honorees for her global advocacy to empower women and girls, and posed for a photo with Anderson, her friend Genevieve Hillis and agentJill Smoller, who began representing Meghan after it was announced shesigned with talent agencyWilliam Morris Endeavor in April. Smoller is the longtime agent to Meghan’s palSerena Williams.
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Markus Anderson, Genevieve Hillis, Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, and Jill Smoller attend the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awards: Celebrating Generations of Progress & Power at Ziegfeld Ballroom on May 16.Kevin Mazur/Getty
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Meghan, Harry and Markus seemed to be in good spirits during the hockey game on Monday, where the Duke of Sussex made the ceremonialpuck dropbefore the game began.
Harry’s appearance on the ice came 21 years after his grandmother,Queen Elizabeth, had herown ceremonial puck drop(also at a Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks game!). The late monarch visited Vancouver while on an 11-day tour in Canada in honor of her Golden Jubilee at the time.
King Charles’s younger son is a former captain in the British Army and founded the international adaptive sports tournament for wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans in 2014.
Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, and Meghan Markle, The Duchess of Sussex, celebrate a Vancouver Canucks goal on November 20.Derek Cain/Getty
source: people.com
