Meghan Markle was "on a manhunt" and was "forensic" in her search for Prince Harry prior to their relationship starting, according to royal biographer Tom Bower.
Bower's latest book, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors, contradict Markle's own account of how she got together with the royal.
"Meghan's google search was more forensic," he claims in the book.
"As the master of online research for The Tig, she instinctively searched Google for information. I think that Meghan was on a manhunt.
"She was looking for a husband - and an English husband - and Harry was available."
Bower's claims differ from what Markle said during the infamous tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021.
When Markle was asked about her blind date with Harry, she said she had never searched for details about him on the internet before their first date.
"I never looked up my husband online," Markle told Winfrey.
"I just didn't feel the need to because everything that I needed to know, he was sharing with me - or everything we thought I needed to know, he was telling me."
The pair met in July, 2016 when a mutual friend set them up on a blind date.
At the time of the set up, Markle apparently asked the mutual friend only one thing.
"Because I'm from the [United] States, you don't grow up with the same understanding of the Royal Family," Markle said.
"I didn't know much about him, so the only thing that I had asked [our mutual friend] when she said that she wanted to set us up, was, 'Well, is he nice?' Cause if he wasn't kind, it just didn't seem like it would make sense."
