A body language expert believes that Harry was angered by Meghan’s story about meeting the Queen (Image: Netflix)

Prince Harry was once left red “with anger” after his wife, Meghan Markle, appeared to do an exaggerated curtsy to the late Queen Elizabeth when meeting her for the first time, an expert has claimed. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex made a series of revelations about their life within the Royal Family in the Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan.

In the bombshell show, the couple opened up about Meghan’s first meeting with the late monarch. The meeting took place when Harry and Meghan were in Windsor to have lunch at the Royal Lodge with Princess Eugenie. Harry said: “How do you explain that to people? How do you explain that you bow to your grandmother? And that you will need to curtsy. Especially to an American. That’s weird.”

Prince Harry revealed the awkwardness when telling Meghan to curtsy his Grandmother (Image: Getty)

Meghan added: “It’s surreal. It wasn’t like some big moment of like, ‘Now you’re going to meet my grandmother,” Meghan said. “I didn’t know I was going to meet her until moments before.”

“And I remember we were in the car and we were driving up and he’s like ‘You know how to curtsy right?’ And I just thought it was a joke.”

It was then that the duchess re-enacted the moment she met the late Queen and performed a long and exaggerated curtsy before saying while giggling: “Pleasure to meet you, Your Majesty”, while the camera showed Harry.

Body language expert Jesús Enrique Rosas noted the duke’s discomfort and analysed Harry’s appearance in the clip on his Youtube channel.

Meghan believed that Harry was joking about the royal convention (Image: Getty)

He said: “The first part of Harry’s reaction tells me that he knew what was coming. He is serious even if Meghan is speaking quickly, joyfully but there’s no connection, no empathy in him. He is serious and maybe even angry, notice what happens with his throat, he is swallowing at that moment.”

“He is looking at Meghan and he displays contempt. A split second after that, he looks away and presses his jaw,” the body language expert explained.

He added: “You can see the patches of red on his face are much redder – the cheeks, the bridge of the nose, the temples – it could be that he feels ashamed or angry.

“I’m going to tell you why this is covert anger and not [Harry being] ashamed. If he was ashamed, he would have smiled a bit more, or [had] a nervous laughter.

“But he knew what was coming and he couldn’t stand it – that he had that face at the beginning and had that subtle swallow right before Meghan did the curtsy.”