Meghan Markle says the Queen was ‘always wonderful to her’ and she ‘loved being in her company’

MEGHAN Markle has gushed over the Queen saying she was “always wonderful to her” in her tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The Duchess of Sussex, 39, told the chat show host, 67, that she “loved” being in Her Majesty’s company. 

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Meghan spoke about the difference between the royal family as a “business” and a “family”, on Oprah With Meghan And Harry: A CBS Primetime Special.

The duchess told Oprah: “It's hard for people to distinguish the two, because it's a family business right, there's the family, and then there's the people that are running the institution, those are two separate things and it's important to be able to compartmentalise that because the Queen, for example, has always been wonderful to me.”

Speaking of her Cheshire engagement with the Queen weeks before her wedding, Meghan said: "I mean, we had one of our first joint engagement together. She asked me to join her, and I was on the train.

"And we have breakfast together that morning and she gave me a beautiful gift and I just really loved being in her company, and I remember we were in the car and she gave me some beautiful pearl earrings and a matching necklace, and we were in the car going between engagements.”

"And she has a blanket that sits across her, her knees, for warmth and it was chilly and she her knees, for warmth and it was chilly and she was like, 'Meghan, come on.'

“And put it over my knees as well. And it made me think of my grandmother, where she's always been warm and inviting and really welcoming."

The couple said they were now thriving in their new life, loving trips to the beach with son Archie while revealing they were expecting a little girl in the summer.

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The explosive interview aired on CBS in the US, and will be shown in the UK on ITV on Monday at 9pm.

Meghan and Harry, 36, along with one-year-old son Archie now live in Santa Barbara in a £11m mansion and are neighbours of Oprah. 

Meghan stunned in a black £3,600 Armani dress featuring a lotus flower design, and also has her hair pulled back in a centre-parted up-do.

The “primetime special” with Meghan and Harry was initially set to last 90 minutes, but CBS extended it to two hours.

Meghan and Harry signed up for the interview to have the freedom to "speak their truth".

Oprah confirmed ahead of the two-hour special airing that "no subject is off-limits”.

In a dramatic preview of their tell-all interview, Harry said that his "biggest concern was history repeating itself" in a hint towards his mother's own struggle in the Firm.

Meghan cradled her baby bump while the host asked her whether she was "silent, or silenced"; by the Royal Family.

And the Duchess of Sussex also accused Buckingham ­Palace of “perpetuating falsehoods”.

In the clip, released by CBS, Meghan claims she wasn’t even allowed to speak to Oprah in 2018 without someone listening in.