Meghan Markle during a tour of Nigeria with Prince Harry (Image: Getty)
– despite telling US chat show veteran Oprah Winfrey that her passport was taken away when she became a member of the .
The Firm was left red-faced and alarmed after the landmark televised interview between , Meghan and Oprah, in March 2021.
This came around a year after the couple relocated to California and stepped back from their roles as senior working royals.
Meghan claimed in the tell-all chat with Oprah that after joining the royals, her passport was taken from her and was not given back until she was leaving for the .
Meghan Markle during her 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey (Image: Getty)
She said during the interview: “You couldn’t just go. You couldn’t. I mean, you have to understand, as well, when I joined that family, that was the last time, until we came here, that I saw my passport, my driver’s licence, my keys.
“All that gets turned over. I didn’t see any of that anymore.”
According to , royal sources claimed her passport was kept secure to make sure it did not fall into the wrong hands. But, it would still have been used by her for her holidays.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during the Invictus Games in 2023 (Image: Getty)
The publication added that the former Suits star would have had to display her passport in the 13 countries she visited as a tourist during the period she was a member of the Royal Family.
The opulent trips she took after she started dating included visits to New York, Ibiza, Italy and Botswana.
The pair also went on three official royal tours, visiting Morocco, South Africa and Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji.