{"id":2161708,"date":"2025-11-17T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2161708"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:57:07","slug":"king-charles-nickname-for-meghan-markle-before-royal-rift-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/king-charles-nickname-for-meghan-markle-before-royal-rift-celebrity-news-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles&#8217; nickname for Meghan Markle before royal rift &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>King Charles once shared a strong bond with Meghan Markle, but their relationship broke down when she left the royal family in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>During Meghan&#8217;s brief time as a working royal, reports suggest she made such an impression on her father-in-law that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/190257\/royal-staff-meghan-markle-tacky-kris-jenner\">he gave her an unexpected nickname<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/king-charles\">King Charles<\/a> has never publicly referred to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/meghan-markle\">the Duchess of Sussex<\/a> by this moniker, it&#8217;s thought he used to call her &#8220;tungsten.&#8221; This term, referring to a hard and brittle metal with the highest melting point of any known element, is seen as a testament to Meghan&#8217;s strength and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Royal fans have suggested that the king came up with this nickname in recognition of Meghan&#8217;s &#8220;tough&#8221; character, with a palace source also indicating it was used affectionately.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/king-charles-nickname-for-meghan-markle-8780576\" rel=\"nofollow\">Instyle<\/a>, during Meghan&#8217;s time as a working royal, when King Charles was still The Prince of Wales, a palace insider told the Mail on Sunday, &#8220;Prince Charles admires Meghan for her strength and the backbone she gives Harry, who needs a tungsten-type figure in his life as he can be a bit of a softy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s become a term of endearment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meghan herself has never publicly commented on this nickname given to her by her father-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the only pet name she&#8217;s known by, as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\">Prince Harry<\/a> &#8211; her husband of seven years &#8211; also has tender nicknames for his wife. These are terms he still uses today as the pair relish their Montecito lifestyle with their two kids &#8211; Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex is thought to frequently address Meghan as &#8220;Meg&#8221; or &#8220;M&#8221; instead of her complete name, while Meghan reciprocates by calling him &#8220;H.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on the Jamie Kern Lima Show this year, Meghan disclosed that the pet names &#8220;M&#8221; and &#8220;H&#8221; date back to when they first started dating and were attempting to maintain secrecy around their romance.<\/p>\n<p>She explained, &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t tell anyone who I was dating, and who was keeping [the secret]. So I think we were just on a letter basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Meghan said the nicknames then &#8220;just stuck,&#8221; and she revealed all of their close friends and family now use the single letter nicknames as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like nicknames a lot,&#8221; Meghan confessed to the podcast host. &#8220;I love nicknames.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the podcast, Meghan admitted she&#8217;s still in the &#8220;honeymoon stage&#8221; with Harry and said, &#8220;You have to imagine, at the beginning everyone has butterflies and then we immediately went into the trenches together \u2014 right out of the gate, like six months into dating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She continued, &#8220;When you have a little bit of breathing space, you can just enjoy each other in a new way. That\u2019s why I feel like it\u2019s more of a honeymoon period for us now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles once shared a strong bond with Meghan Markle, but their relationship broke down when she left the royal family in 2020. During Meghan&#8217;s brief time as a working royal, reports suggest she made such an impression on her father-in-law that he gave her an unexpected nickname. 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