Meghan Markle’s comments about a “final fun night out” she had with Prince Harry before going public with their relationship have gone viral, after footage from a 2021 interview with Ellen DeGeneres has resurfaced on TikTok.

Meghan and Harry have been increasingly open about their early relationship and how it developed into marriage since they stepped down from their working roles within the royal family and moved to the U.S. in 2020.

In 2021, after the couple spoke about the difficult aspects of their time in the royal spotlight in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan made a more lighthearted TV appearance, sitting down with friend and neighbor Ellen DeGeneres.

Meghan’s interview was filmed at the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, California, where The Ellen DeGeneres Show was shot. The duchess appeared as a guest on its final season, airing in November 2021.

Meghan Markle

DeGeneres raised the subject of Harry and Meghan’s early relationship and the need to keep it a secret from the press. To illustrate this point, Meghan referenced a 2016 Halloween party she and the prince had been able to attend in Toronto, Canada, without anyone knowing it was them.

“[Harry] came to see me in Toronto and our friends and his cousin [Princess] Eugenie and now her husband Jack they came as well,” she said. “The four of us snuck out in Halloween costumes to just have one fun night on the town before it was out in the world that we were a couple.”

When pushed on the topic by DeGeneres, Meghan said: “It was a post-apocalypse theme so we had all this very bizarre costume on and we were able to just sort of have one final fun night out.”