06 October 2023 , 06:00
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Like most couples, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle seemingly have private nicknames for each other that they use behind closed doors.
But Meghan once let slip the moniker she sometimes uses for her husband Harry - and it saw him mocked by one of his celebrity friends. It came in 2021 when Harry appeared on an episode of the Late Late Show with James Corden and the pair took a bus tour around LA. At one point, James video calls Meghan and she spots Harry in the background and asks him: "Haz, how is your tour of LA going?", revealing his nickname.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who has a nickname for her husband (ANP via Getty Images)Later James, a pal of Harry's, mocked: "Haz! I didn't know we were calling you Haz!" cried Corden. To which Harry quipped: "Well you aren't my wife." Meanwhile, it's not the only time Meghan has referred to Harry by a nickname. She also did it during an appearance on The Ellen Show, when she began to discuss the amazing bond between her children and revealed her nickname for Harry.
She said: "He [Archie] loves being a big brother. Everyone tells you, someone told H and I, you have one kid as a hobby, two children is parenting." And recently in his autobiography Spare, Harry revealed the nicknames he and brother William use for each other.
Throughout the book, he refers to his older brother as Willy with William calling his younger sibling Harold. Meanwhile, Harry's real name is rarely used and his surname even less so. His full title is Prince Henry Charles Albert David, Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton, Baron Kilkeel, formerly Prince Harry of Wales.
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Harry with James Corden on the Late Late Show in 2021 (YouTube/CBS)When Harry served in the army, he was known as Harry Wales, and even gave his son Archie a middle name after himself; Harry's son - Harrison. Meanwhile, similar to Harry, Meghan's real first name is also not Meghan.
When she was born, she was officially called Rachel Meghan but has used her middle name, which her parents have called her since birth. All of her friends call her Meghan, with many also referring to her as Megs in interviews. But ironically Rachel was the name of her popular character in her hit legal drama Suits.
Meanwhile, it also seems Meghan was given an unusual nickname by her father-in-law King Charles. In royal expert Katie Nicholl's book The New Royals, she explains that Charles admired Meghan's strength of character and gave her a fitting nickname to reflect this. Nicholl wrote in the book: "Charles reportedly nicknamed his future daughter-in-law 'Tungsten' because of her toughness and resilience."
This is not the first time that Charles' initial nickname for Meghan has been reported. In June 2018, the Daily Mail wrote that Charles called Meghan 'Tungsten', a type of metal because she is "tough and unbending". A source told the Mail on Sunday at the time: "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. It's become a term of endearment."