How Meghan Markle Gracefully Saved First Royal Speech Following a Mix-Up with 'Fluff of the Lines'

The Duchess of Sussex used her nickname in a sweet text following the snafu

Meghan Markle's background as an actor may have come in handy when there was a mix-up with her first public speech before marrying Prince Harry.

On the latest episode of Hello! A Right Royal Podcast, the Invictus Games Foundation director David Wiseman joined the show to discuss the latest iteration of the event in Germany, his friendship with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and why Meghan wasn’t mad when he accidentally delivered the wrong script for her first public address as Prince Harry’s fiancée in 2018. Meghan hit the stage for the awards for The Endeavor Fund, which Harry established to support the ambitions of wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans — but struggled to start speaking due to the snafu!

"I messed up at work!” Wiseman said on the podcast when asked to recall an anecdote and turned to the 2018 Endeavor Fund Awards in London. “It was the first time she'd spoken in public as the [future] Duchess of Sussex. There weren’t many of us at The Royal Foundation, so everyone sort of mucked in for everything."

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“I was writing the scripts, and there was a last-minute request for a change from her team – yeah, no problem, put it in. But she got the old version, and the new version was sent to her co-host, my mate, [British Army veteran] Neil Heritage. And there were there on stage, and they had two different versions of the script,” he explained.

“I don't know if you remember, they were both sort of not arguing, but saying ‘No, this is the version,' and so there was a fluff of the lines in front of everybody on her first opening speech as the [future] Duchess of Sussex,” Wiseman said. As seen in a video shared to X by Rebecca English of the Daily Mail, Meghan and Heritage quietly laughed and couldn’t seem to locate the correct piece of paper on the podium to present the Celebrating Excellence Award.

Joking that he “died a little bit inside” from his front-row spot next to Harry, Wiseman (an Invictus Games alum who appeared in the August docuseries Heart of Invictus) said he was relieved as the duo moved through the moment and the event received positive press coverage.

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Wiseman, who first met Prince Harry and Prince William years before as students at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, said he later sent Harry apologetic texts about the accident and Meghan hopped on the phone.

“Meghan jumped on the text, ‘David, it's M, honestly, really really, don't worry about it.' She was just so kind,” he said on Hello! A Right Royal Podcast.

It was an unusual move for Meghan to present a prize that evening, as she was not yet officially in the royal family given her May wedding to Harry was still a few months away. In contrast, Kate Middleton did not give her first speech until nearly a year after her royal wedding to Prince William in 2011.

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The Endeavor Fund merged with the Invictus Games Foundation in June 2020, separating it from the Royal Foundation. The change came a few months after Prince Harry and Meghan stepped back from their royal roles and relocated across the pond, ultimately settling in Meghan’s home state of California.

The couple had a date night at the Endeavour Fund Awards in 2019 (while Meghan was pregnant with Prince Archie, 4) and attended the ceremony again the following year. The 2020 event was one of their last royal engagements in the U.K. before their transatlantic move, and their entry was glamorously captured in a now-iconic image below an umbrella by royal photographer Samir Hussein.

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