For the first time, Prince Harry reveals he and Meghan Markle met through Instagram after he saw a video of her with a puppy filter

• Prince Harry said that he and Meghan Markle met for the first time through Instagram in 2016.

• Speaking in Netflix's "Harry & Meghan," he said he saw a video of Meghan with a puppy filter.

• The couple were then introduced by a mutual friend.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry spoke about how they met, sharing for the first time how Instagram brought them together.

In the first episode of Netflix's "Harry & Meghan" docuseries, which aired on Thursday, Harry said a mutual friend set them up after he saw a video of Meghan with a puppy filter in the summer of 2016.

"Meghan and I met over Instagram. I was scrolling through my feed, and someone who was a friend had this video of the two of them, it was like a Snapchat," Harry said.

"That whole thing, the dog ears," Meghan said.

"That's what he saw of me," she added, as a photo of the duchess with a puppy filter appeared on the screen.

"That was the first thing, I was like, 'Who is that?'" Harry said.

Meghan said that the mutual friend ended up emailing her to let her know that "Prince Haz" had asked about her, to which Meghan asked who he was and if she could look at his Instagram feed.

"I asked if I could see his feed. That's the thing, when people say, 'Did you Google him?' No, but that's your homework. Let me see what they are about in their feed. Not what someone else says about them, but what they are putting out about themselves," Meghan said.

Royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand wrote in their 2020 book, "Finding Freedom," that Harry had a private Instagram account that Meghan started following shortly after they met, Town & Country reports.

The docuseries marks the first time that the couple shared how Instagram played a part in how they first met. Speaking in their engagement interview with BBC News in 2017, Harry said they were "introduced by a mutual friend," who he didn't name for privacy reasons.

The couple also spoke in the docuseries about their first date at Soho House in London. Meghan said that because Harry was late, she had initially assumed that he was "one of the guys with so much of an ego that any girl would sit around and wait for a half hour for you."

But when Harry walked through the door, she realized that wasn't the case. She said he was "genuinely so embarrassed" about being late.

Volume I of "Harry & Meghan" is available on Netflix, and Volume II will air on December 15.

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