Jenna Bush Hager’s Plan to Set Up Prince Harry With Her Sister Backfired Due to…Sun shades?

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Considered one of former President George W. Bush‘s daughters may have develop into the Duchess of Sussex.

Whereas co-hosting NBC’s At this time present on Friday, Jenna Bush Hager, 37, recalled attempting to arrange Prince Harry along with her twin sister Barbara Bush, earlier than he bought collectively along with his now-wife Meghan Markle.

“I interviewed Prince Harry as soon as. We get to the shoot, we’re on the Invictus Video games. It’s so sunny…we are able to barely open our eyes,” Jenna stated. “And he is like, ‘Can we do that?’ I am like, Prince Harry, is that you simply?’ And he has actually stunning mild eyes, that are delicate to the solar. I do know, as a result of my daughters have mild eyes. So Prince Harry was like, ‘We now have to put on sun shades, do not you assume?'”

They each did through the interview, and Jenna stated she regretted it.

“I regretted it as a result of the images…it was like a barrier between us,” she stated. “And I attempted to set him up with my sister and it did not work…That is earlier than Meghan, clearly earlier than child Archie, that is way back.”

Harry, 34, and Meghan, 37, wed in 2018 and welcomed their first little one, son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, this previous Could.

“I felt like perhaps if he may see straight into my eyes…that might have labored if my sun shades weren’t blocking that match,” Jenna stated. “He stated, ‘Let’s speak later. However then he bought married to Meghan Markle.”

Barbara can also be married; she wed screenwriter Craig Coyne on the Bush household compound in Maine final October, a number of months after the royal marriage ceremony.

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