How Meghan Markle's Dog Guy Played a Special Role When Prince Harry Proposed

Mar. 15, 2025

Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and Guy in a photo shared in “Harry & Meghan” on Netflix.Photo: Netflix

Meghan MarkleandPrince Harryare mourning the death of their dogGuy, prompting a look back at the role the rescue beagle played when Harry proposed.

In his memoirSpare, published in January 2023, the Duke of Sussex wrote about the night he asked Meghan to marry him and how Guy the dog was involved. While Prince Harry, 40, and Meghan, 43, had previously spoken about how he proposed at their London home in their 2017 BBCengagement interviewand the 2022 Netflix docuseriesHarry & Meghan,Spareshed new light on the emotional moment — and how Guy was there for it all.

Prince Harry recapped how Guy made the move with Meghan from Canada (where she lived while filmingSuits) to be with him in the U.K., and how they all settled into a rhythm at Nottingham Cottage, Harry’s home on the grounds of Kensington Palace. Guy was seriously injured in an accident shortly before Meghan moved (which she mentioned in herInstagram tributeeulogizing her dog on Jan. 7) and Harry wrote inSpareabout how he helped care for the beagle as he healed.

Guy and Prince Harry in Meghan Markle’s Jan. 7, 2025 Instagram video.Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Instagram

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Instagram

“I loved that dog. I couldn’t stop kissing him, petting him. Yes, my intense feelings for Meg spilled over onto anyone or anything she loved, but also I’d wanted a dog for so long, and I’d never been able to have one because I’d been such a nomad,” Prince Harry wrote of Guy, and shared the story of thenight he proposedin November 2017.

“One night, not long after Meg’s arrival in Britain, we were at home, making dinner, playing with Guy, and the kitchen of Nott Cott was as full of love as any room I’d ever been in,” Harry wrote.

“Now I knelt on the blanket, Guy at my side. Both of us looked up searchingly at Meg,” Prince Harry said inSpare. It relived a scene that audiences got a glimpse of in theHarry & Meghandocuseries — ring box and all!

Prince Harry and Guy in “Harry & Meghan” on Netflix.Netflix

He popped the question and Meghan said yes. “Then we were crying and laughing, and petting Guy, who looked frozen solid,” Prince Harry wrote inSpare.

Prince Harry and Prince Archie walk with Guy and Pula in Meghan Markle’s Jan. 7, 2025 Instagram video.Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Instagram

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s son and daughterPrincess Lilibet, now 3, made rare cameos in Meghan’s video tribute to Guy. Footage in the montage showed Archie expertly walking Guy on a leash as he explored the outdoors with Harry, and a still shot showed Lilibet and Meghan on a blanket in the grass with Guy and the family’s two other dogs,Pulathe Labrador and rescue beagleMomma Mia.

“We love you Guy, yes we do. We love you Guy, and we’ll be true. When you’re not near us, we’re blue,” Princess Lilibet and Meghan seemed to sing in audio overlaid as the tribute closed with the slide, “In Memory of Guy.”

Princess Lilibet and Meghan Markle with Guy, Pula and Momma Mia in Meghan Markle’s Jan. 7, 2025 Instagram video.Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Instagram

On Jan. 7, the Duchess of Sussex posted a 90-second montage to hernew Instagram accountto announce that Guy had died.

“In 2015, I adopted a beagle from a dog rescue in Canada. He had been at a kill shelter in Kentucky and given a few days to live. I swooped him up … and fell in love,” Meghan wrote in part.

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“They referred to him as ‘the little guy’ because he was so small and frail, so I named him ‘Guy’. And he was the best guy any girl could have asked for,” she wrote.

source: people.com