Serena Williams and Meghan’s friendship has been well documented over the years.
The tennis superstar and the Duchess first met in 2010 at a Superbowl Party, then once again in 2014 where they ‘hit it off immediately’ according to The Tig.
The close relationship between the pair was evident when Serena starred in the Duke and Duchesses’ Netflix docuseries, Meghan and Harry.
She featured in the third episode where she said: ‘I’m looking at it through the lens of my friend, not a princess.
They as a couple are so tight. And rely on each other so much… I was just super excited.’
Williams added Meghan and Harry are each other’s’ ‘best, best, best friends’.
In 2014, Meghan spoke about the first time she met Serena: ‘We hit it off immediately, taking pictures, laughing through the flag football game we were both playing in, and chatting not about tennis or acting, but about all the good old fashioned girly stuff.
‘So began our friendship. She quickly became a confidante I would text when I was traveling, the friend I would rally around for her tennis matches, and the down to earth chick I was able to grab lunch with just a couple weeks ago in Toronto.’
Their friendship continued to grow over their love of fashion, ‘hot sauces’ and their ‘endless ambition’.
After Meghan became Prince Harry’s girlfriend in 2016, the Duchess leaned on the tennis pro who advised her on how to handle the paparazzi.
According to Mark Hodgkinson in Serena: A Graphic Biography of the Greatest Tennis Champion, the women’s friendship evolved through regular phone calls and texts.
Serena told Meghan to ‘stop being so nice’, according to Hodgkinson.
She went on to be invited to Meghan’s hen do and her New York baby shower in 2019.
More recently, as well as appearing in the Netflix series, Meghan invited her to star on the first episode of her Spotify podcast Archetypes.
