‘World’s best matchmaker’ says she ‘wouldn’t have picked’ Meghan Markle for Prince Harry

A woman dubbed the ‘world’s best matchmaker’ revealed she wanted to bag Prince Harry as a client when he was single. 

Lara Asprey, 35, head of UK-based Asprey Introductions, told Hello! that she ‘put the feelers out’ to see if she could get the royal bachelor on her books. 

‘We have friends in common and I had lots of people for him, ‘ she said. ‘Then he was introduced to Meghan… Someone else got there first.’

Matchmaker Lara Asprey, 35, revealed she wanted to bag Prince Harry as a client when he was single. Pictured, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the Lion King premiere in London in July

Lara, pictured in September last year, told Hello! that she ‘put the feelers out’ to see if she could get the royal bachelor on her books

Lara admitted while Prince Harry, 34, and wife Meghan Markle, 38, are ‘great together’, she would not have thought to introduce them. 

She said: ‘I would not have necessarily picked her as perfect for Harry so it just goes to show that chemistry is unpredictable.

‘Had I met her I’d have seen it because they’re great together’. 

Lara, formerly known as the Sloane Arranger, has built a reputation finding dates for high profile clients including ‘actors, models and billionaires’.  

The matchmaker said the chemistry between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex is clear to see. Pictured, the couple put on an affectionate display during an engagement in October 2018

She said she has been responsible for ‘hundreds of marriages’ and ‘babies too’. 

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex met on a ‘bind date’ set up by a mutual friend in 2016.

Their matchmaker is widely thought to be Violet von Westenholz, 36, daughter of Prince Charles’s pal, former Olympic skier Baron Piers von Westenholz. 

The socialite has mutual friends with the Duchess of Sussex and was snapped spending time with the royal at a publicity day at Wimbledon in 2017. 

However there have also been several other suggestions as to the identity of the mysterious royal matchmaker.

Other sources say that Meghan’s Bahrain-born best friend Misha Nonoo, the estranged wife of Harry’s friend, Alexander Gilkes, a pal of William and Harry’s from Eton, organised their blind date last year.

Initially many sources believed Miss Markle’s Canadian friend Markus Anderson acted as cupid.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced their engagement in November 2017 and married at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in May 2018. They welcomed their son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor in May this year. 

Read the full interview in Hello! Magazine, out now.