Prince Harry memoir tells selkie superstition story
Prince Harry has recalled an unusual superstition from his memoir, describing how a seaside encounter in Scotland left a member of King Charles III’s staff “horrified”. The anecdote dates to a summer stay at the Castle of Mey, where the Duke of Sussex said the then-Prince of Wales told him and Meghan Markle a local legend about “selkies” that could grant wishes.
Express.co.uk reported that Prince Harry wrote about the couple singing to seals they spotted off the coast, before he stripped off and swam out to them after taking it as a good omen.
In the book, Prince Harry described serenading the seals and claimed they “sang back” after Meghan joined in, before he went into the water. He said King Charles’s Australian chef warned it was a “supremely bad idea”, telling them the Caithness coast was “teeming with killer whales” and that singing to seals could be like calling them to their “blood-soaked deaths”.
The story is one of several personal recollections from his memoir, and in a previous account of the same episode the Duke also linked the moment to the period shortly before the couple discovered Meghan was pregnant with Prince Archie.
Prince Harry wrote that after returning to Nottingham Cottage, Meghan took two pregnancy tests which were positive the next morning. He added that he saw the incident with the seals as an omen, reflecting on the moment as the couple prepared to start their family.
