Prince Harry was hailed ahead of his 40th birthday on Sunday by one of his pals who let slip what he and wife Meghan Markle are really like.

Prince Harry was hailed by one of his pals for being “kind, funny and pretty damn normal” as the duke prepares to hit a major milestone during the weekend.

The Duke of Sussex will turn 40 on Sunday and British journalist Bryony Gordon, who’s known Harry since 2016, opened up about what he and Meghan Markle are like behind closed doors.

Ms Gordon claimed that the Montecito couple, who she visited at their home just before the release of Harry’s explosive memoir, Spare are “a pretty ­ordinary ­couple existing in an absolutely ­extraordinary situation.”

She wrote for the Mail: “I spent an afternoon at the house, the kids running around happily as we drank tea. Harry proudly showed me the DIY photo wall he’d recently ­created, featuring pictures of his mum.

“When I left, packed off by the happy couple with a jar of their homemade jam (which I then left in the back of a taxi in a ­jet-lagged stupor; somewhere in Los ­Angeles, a cab driver has one of the earliest batches of ­American Riviera Orchard’s ­produce), I was reminded of the fact that they are a pretty ­ordinary ­couple existing in an absolutely ­extraordinary situation.”