Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have made a number of bombshell claims in the last five years since walking away from both the UK and royal life.

While the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now happily settled in California, where they live in a sprawling Montecito mansion with their two children, they did spend some time after quitting royal life making a number of shocking revelations.

One of these included a claim the couple made in their interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, where they claimed they were allegedly married in secret three days before their huge 2018 Windsor wedding.

As reported by The Mail, she said in the interview: “Three days before our wedding, we got married.

“No one knows that but we called the Archbishop and we just said, ‘Look, this thing, this spectacle is for the world but we want our union [to be] between us.”

Meghan then said they had the private ceremony in the garden at Nottingham Cottage, on the grounds of Kensington Palace.

However, while many were shocked to hear this, the claim was quickly debunked as the General Registrar Office revealed that Harry and Meghan were officially married on May 19, 2018 - the day of their star-studded wedding.

The Archbishop Justin Welby, who the couple claimed married them days prior to the broadcast ceremony, also denied marrying the couple before the legal wedding.

Instead, he claimed that he did meet the couple beforehand 'in a private and pastoral setting', which was not an exchange of vows.

He previously told Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper: “The legal wedding was on the Saturday.

“I signed the wedding certificate which is a legal document and I would have committed a serious criminal offence if I signed it knowing it was false.”

After it was revealed Meghan, 43, and Harry, 40, had not married in secret, a spokesman for the couple confirmed to The Sun that the ceremony before the wedding only involved “privately exchanged personal vows”.

The couple’s official wedding took place less than two years before they quit life as senior royals in 2020.