Prince Archie’s former nanny has shared her “surprising” first encounter with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

Lorren Khumalo, a paediatric nurse and consultant, was employed to care for their first child shortly after his birth.

She recently opened up about her initial visit to Frogmore Cottage, where she was greeted informally by a barefoot Harry.

Speaking on The Breakfast Club with Zenzele Ndebele, she said: “I thought to myself, ‘I wonder how their nannies look, do they wear heels?’

“Prince William has got a Norland Nanny, so they’ve got a brown uniform that for my skin colour and the way it looks in khaki brown, I knew it wouldn’t even go, it would just not work.

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“So [I thought] I’ll wear something dark and nice kitten heels but I’ll look presentable for a royal so I need to do my best. But I didn’t use any make-up, I said if they take me, they take me as I am.

“I wasn’t born with a silver spoon, I’m not blue blood, I will go as I am and trust me with my God, I’ll get this job.”

When she first arrived at the couple’s home, she said she expected to see a “princely somebody, in those very expensive German, Swiss suits or something,” but Harry was just wearing jeans and a t-shirt. He was also walking barefoot, Khumalo said.

The nanny went on: “And I kept asking his PPO, so his protection officer, ‘Do I curtsy, do I have to?’ And he just looked at me and laughed and he said, ‘You’ll see, Prince Harry is amazing’.

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