Prince Harry, Meghan Markle: Exciting details of Prince & actress' engagement

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement was officially announced yesterday, November 27 2017.

Following their televised interview and first joint appearance since that announcement, here are other details we learnt of the royal couple’s engagement.

playPrince Harry and Meghan Markle photographed together for the first time after their engagement was announced in November, 2017. (Getty)

1. They’ve been engaged for a while

Speaking of the cozy, roast-chicken-involved night of their engagement, the Prince says: “it happened a few weeks ago, earlier this month… it was here at our cottage.

“It was a standard, typical night for us.”

And the American actress was just so eager to say yes.

“I could barely let [him] finish proposing, I said - 'can I say yes now'?"

2. That engagement ring

“The ring is obviously yellow gold because that’s her favorite.” Prince Harry says.

playThe Prince says the engagement ring's major diamond stone was sourced by him personally from Namibia. (BBC)

3. Something from Africa

Prince Harry says he convinced his new fiancée to join him in Botswana two weeks after they met and it was in Botswana that he’s later select stones for the big moment.

“The main stone itself I sourced from Botswana,” he says of the huge diamond rock set firmly in the middle of the ring that now adorns the finger of the love of his life.

playMeghan Markle was a star on "Suits" but she'll no longer be an actress. (Cosmopolitan)

4. There’s a connection to Princess Diana

“The little diamonds on the side are from my mother’s jewelry collection to make sure she’s with us on this crazy journey together,” says the 33-year-old grandson of the Queen of England.

Prince Harry and Prince William are both sons of Princess Diana who was famously married to the Queen’s son, Prince Charles before her well-documented death in 1997.

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5. No more movie roles

Meghan Markle will no longer be acting, the couple have announced.

The actress’ most popular role is that of a paralegal named Rachel Zane in the American Legal Thriller series, “Suits.”

“I don't see it as giving anything up. I see it as a change. It's a new chapter…" she says.

"Now it's time to work as a team with you," she adds as she turns to Prince Harry in the clip of that interview [below].”

playThe venue of the engagement venue - where Prince Harry got on bent knee on a cozy intimate night - is circled in red here. (BBC)

6. Wedding date

While a particular wedding date has yet not been set, the couple have been billed to wed in the Spring of 2018.