It feels safe to say that few royals have ever captivated the public quite as much as Meghan Markle. As an American actor who married into the Royal Family, she won countless adoring fans. And as a royal who got fed up with that family and left royal life behind to start over in the U.S., she won over even more people.
Needless to say, Markle is very popular on TikTok. Users love to drink in every detail about her life in vivid detail. And you can feel closer to this celebrity royal, one video at a time.
But which videos are actually worth watching? To save you some time, we rounded up the most popular Meghan Markle videos on TikTok!
Before she became royalty
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A big part of Meghan’s charm is that the world fell in love with her before she became royalty. But because she makes new fans every day, many of them are unaware of what the old Meghan was like.
This video shows off some of her greatest looks over the years. And it’s fairly easy to see what Harry saw in her!
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She stays looking young
@harryandmeghan_ Periodt #foryou #fyp #beautiful #meghanmarkle #wealth #money #princessmeghan #royalfamily #xyzbca #parati ♬ ale że to mój dźwięk niezle – vixa
Even haters can’t deny that Meghan Markle is drop-dead gorgeous. And this video points out that this isn’t going to change anytime soon.
After turning 40, Meghan looks largely the same as she did many years ago. At this rate, she may give Queen Elizabeth a run for her money on staying well-preserved!
Dishing about America to Ellen
@etcanada Meghan Markle spilled *all the tea* to @Ellen about post-royal life and we’re living for it😱👑 #meghanmarkle #ellen #ellendegeneres #royal ♬ original sound – ET Canada
It’s easy to criticize most of the Royal Family for being out of touch with the common people. By contrast, this video shows how easy it is to relate to Meghan Markle.
With amusement and candor, she describes what it is like to try to move to America and get settled in so shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic. Like most of us, Meghan was stuck at home most of the time and tried to make the most of it by turning her new house with Harry into a true home.
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Meghan’s own royal portrait
@matta_of_fact #MeghanMarkle royal portrait 🖼 #PrinceHarry #Beyonce #QueenElizabeth #royalfamily #royalhistory #arthistory ♬ Savage Remix (feat. Beyoncé) – Megan Thee Stallion
As this video notes, Meghan didn’t exactly stick around the palace long enough to get a genuine royal portrait. But she did get the next best thing!
An artist created a faux-royal portrait of Meghan for her old sorority magazine. And it actually sums up her life and career quite well, showing a woman who is clearly torn between very different worlds.
Spilling the tea about her half-sister
@cbsnews Meghan responds to news that Samantha Markle, her half-sister on her father’s side, is writing a “tell-all” book about her. #news #meghanmarkle #royal ♬ original sound – cbsnews
As you may or may not know, Meghan’s half-sister has taken every possible opportunity to capitalize on Meghan’s celebrity. And in this clip from Meghan’s Oprah interview, she sheds additional light on the true nature of their relationship.
In this case, it’s the fact that there is no real relationship at all. Meghan saw the woman very rarely and they were never close. And in an amusing bit of shade, Meghan reveals that her half-sister Samantha only changed her last name back to “Markle” when Meghan began dating Harry, clearly hoping it would help her secure her own 15 minutes of fame.
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Meghan and Harry are adorkable when they think the cameras aren’t rolling
@harryandmeghan_ They are so Goofy together #fyp #pourtoi #parati #love #heart #princeharry #meghanmarkle #couple #goals #single #lilibet #xyzbca #tv #wow #luv #aww ♬ Like I Can – Sam Smith
You can learn a lot about celebrities, politicians, and even royals when they don’t know a camera is rolling or a microphone is still on. And this usually leads to them saying or doing something that “royally” angers their supporters.
And then there is Meghan and Harry. They didn’t realize this camera was still rolling, and the two turned into completely adorable dorks, complete with funny faces and hand gestures. Regardless of how you feel about the two, this is the kind of video that proves they were 100% made for each other.
Getting an English award when she was in high school
@theiconicelebs Meghan Markle The Duchess of Sussex receiving a English award in the 90s #meghanmarkle #fyp ♬ original sound – theiconicelebs
This video captures rare footage of Meghan Markle’s teenage years. And in that way, it ends up being very bittersweet.
It’s genuinely heartwarming to see a young Meghan beaming to “Daddy” about her English award. But it’s very sobering to think about how Meghan and her father are now completely estranged and how he has made her life miserable in many ways.
Fortunately, the story has a happy ending. Many would say that Prince Harry is the ultimate “English award,” so points to Meghan for being consistent!
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Oprah interview sheds new light on old footage
This moment of Meghan taking Harry’s hand may not seem very special. But the context of this moment makes the whole thing completely heartbreaking.
When these two came to the Royal Albert Hall in London for a charity event in January 2019, it was shortly after Meghan told Harry about her suicidal thoughts, including detailed plans of how she would kill herself. Their busy schedules didn’t really give the couple time to process everything before they had to attend the event.
In her bombshell March 2021 interview with Oprah, Meghan shed light on this exact moment. “If you zoom in, what I see is how tightly his knuckles are gripped around mine. You can see the whites of our knuckles, because we are smiling and doing our job, but we’re both just trying to hold on.”
Stunning the entire world
@harryandmeghan_ Duchess Meghan #pourtoi #fyp #xyzbca #goals #millionaire #meghanmarkle #time #wealth #royalfamily #harryandmeghan #Queen #PrincessMeghan #boss #parati ♬ space song – favsoundds
If we’re being honest, most of us wouldn’t actually love the attention that comes from being royal. Fame is nice, but there is plenty of stress in knowing the whole world is watching everything that you see and do.
Meghan was never immune to those stresses. But watching her descend and stand next to Harry amid thunderous applause, we can see a bright young woman who is ready to take on the entire world.
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Meghan goes to war against the Royal Family
@cbsnews Oprah asks Meghan Markle how she feels about the palace hearing her “speak her truth” during their interview, airing March 7 on CBS. #news #royal ♬ original sound – cbsnews
Here we have another video with excerpts from Meghan and Harry’s explosive interview with Oprah. And in this interview, Oprah point-blank asks Meghan how she thinks the palace will react to her bombshell revelations.
Meghan stays polite as always, but she points out how the Royal Family should never have expected her to stay silent when they were helping “perpetuate falsehoods” about her. In addition to being a genuine “yass queen” moment, this showed the world Meghan was going to back down after revealing some of the Royal Family’s dirty laundry to the world.