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Duchess Meghan put her Spanish skills to the test during an appearance in her and Prince Harry’s new Netflix docuseries, Polo.
The five-episode series, which premiered on December 10, follows the journey of several different professional polo players as they prepare for the 2024 U.S. Open Polo Championship in Wellington, Florida. Meghan and Harry served as the show’s executive producers through their company, Archewell Productions.
In one scene, Meghan and Harry make a joint appearance for the April 2024 Royal Salute Polo Challenge, a special sporting benefit for Harry’s charity, Sentebale.
Meeting Argentinian polo player Adolfo Cambiaso on the field, the Duchess of Sussex greets the athlete in Spanish. Harry then proudly tells Cambiaso, “She’s fluent in Spanish.”
The two then carry a conversation in Spanish together. “I lived there about 20 years ago. In Palermo Viejo,” Meghan says, referring to a neighborhood in Buenos Aires. “Las Cañitas, too,” she adds.
“That’s great, that’s where the polo fields were,” Cambiaso replies.
Meghan continues, “I love the 25th of May.” In Argentina, May 25 is a national holiday known as Día de la Revolución de Mayo, which celebrates the first independent government established in Buenos Aires.
Meghan honed her Spanish skills while working as an intern at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires in the early 2000s. She further developed her Spanish by studying abroad in Madrid, Spain.
While Meghan’s fluency in the language isn’t widely known, she got the chance to publicly brush up on her Spanish during a trip to Colombia this past August. At a summit for Afro-Colombian women, she delivered her opening remarks completely in Spanish.
“Because we are in your country, my husband and I can feel this embrace from Colombia—it’s incredible,” the duchess said at the time. “The culture, the history—all of it—was a dream. This trip was a dream. I can feel this community, and this is the feeling that is the best thing right now.”