Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly had a “pleasant encounter” with John Travolta! The Duke and Duchess of Sussex met with the 69-year-old Grease icon on the famed Polo Lounge contained in the Beverly Hills Resort in January 2023, in response to a Page Six story that ran on Sunday, August 6. John was in attendance for the discharge social gathering of Harry’s bombshell memoir Spare launched earlier this yr, and The Sun additionally reported that the couple “bought on extraordinarily effectively” with John.
John has had encounters with different members of Prince Harry’s household, most famously his late mom Princess Diana. Again in 1985, John danced with the late Princess of Wales throughout the first night time of her Royal Tour of the U.S. with then-husband King Charles. The notorious second came about on the White Home once they have been company of President Ronald Reagan and first girl Nancy Reagan. Diana’s look specifically went on to turn into one in all her most iconic appears to be like: she wore a velvet blue couture robe by Victor Edelstein alongside together with her signature blue sapphire and pearl choker.
John beforehand mirrored on the historical past making dance in In Their Personal Phrases: Diana, Princess of Wales. “About 10 o’clock at night time, Nancy Reagan tapped on my shoulder and mentioned, ‘The princess, her fantasy is to bop with you. Would you want to bop together with her tonight?’” he remembered of how the second got here to fruition. “And I mentioned, ‘Nicely in fact.’” The late First Woman then informed John, then 31 years outdated, she would convey John over to Diana, then simply 25, at midnight so he might ask her to hitch him on the dance ground.
“My coronary heart begins to race, , and I faucet her on the shoulder and he or she turns round and appears at me, and he or she had that sort of bashful dip [of her chin] that she did, and he or she seemed up at me, and I mentioned, ‘Would you care to bop with me?’” he recalled. “The entire room cleared…We danced for what felt like quarter-hour.”
Whereas the second was brief, the pictures went on to dwell endlessly — remaining among the most well-known photographs of not simply Diana and John, but in addition of that point. “It was a storybook second,” John went on. “We bowed when it was over, and, , she was off, and I used to be off, and my carriage become a pumpkin,” he joked, referencing Cinderella.
Since Harry and Meghan’s transfer to Montecito, California, the pair have stored a comparatively low profile — however are noticed within the space every now and then. Just some days in the past, Meghan marked her forty second birthday at in style Italian restaurant Tre Lune. The previous editor of weblog The Tig seemed trendy in a black and white gown with strappy sandals for the date night time with Prince Harry.
