Meghan’s touching moment with Harry’s ‘biggest fan’

“NEXT time we see you we’ll have a little one with us,” the Duchess of Sussex told 98-year-old Daphne Dunne.

SHE’S already met Prince Harry twice and 98-year-old Daphne Dunne was able to make it a trifecta today.

Mrs Dunne has been dubbed Prince Harry’s “favourite Aussie” with the Duke of Sussex stopping to have lengthy chats with her during both his 2015 and 2017 trips to Australia.

On Tuesday Harry stopped again to speak to Mrs Dunne, this time also introducing the royal fan to his wife Meghan Markle.

“It’s fantastic. I’m so happy to finally meet you. I’ve heard so much about you — all good things,” the Duchess of Sussex told Mrs Dunne.

Harry introduced Meghan to Mrs Dunne. Picture: Benita Kolovos/AAP

“I think it’s wonderful, the two of you,” Mrs Dunne replied.

Accepting flowers and cards from Mrs Dunne, Meghan thanked her and said: “Hopefully next time we see you we’ll have a little one with us.”

Speaking to news.com.au before meeting the famous newlyweds, Mrs Dunne said it was “just marvellous” that her favourite prince was having a child.

Harry had a touching reunion with his biggest Australian fan on Tuesday

“I think it’s wonderful … it’s what he’s always wanted. He will be a marvellous dad,” she said. He won’t let anything stand in his way and he will be so gentle and loving. This should be an Australian baby.”

Mrs Dunne said Meghan and Harry were “beautiful together” and it was nice to see the couple show such affection for each other in public.

98-year-old Sydneysider Daphne Dunne has met Harry for a third time in Sydney. Harry introduced his wife to Daphne for the first time today. "Marvellous." #RoyalWatch #7News pic.twitter.com/OgDIKnQpyU

— 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) October 16, 2018

Meghan also shared a touching moment with the 98-year-old

“I’m excited to see Harry. He’s a wonderful friend … That’s how I feel about him. He’s my favourite royal and so good-looking too. I’m sorry he’s taken,” she said.

Chatting to Today’s Sylvia Jeffreys outside Admiralty House this morning, Mrs Dunne raved about the 34-year-old royal.

“He’s a natural,” she said. “He just loves what he’s doing.

“I’m very happy for him. I’m glad he’s got a wife now, and soon have a b-b-bubba. I was stuttering there purposely,” Mrs Dunne joked.

Prince Harry meets Daphne Dunne outside the Sydney Opera House on May 7, 2015.

The widow’s first husband, Lieutenant Albert Chowne, died aged 25 in 1945 during an attack on a Japanese machine gun post in Papua New Guinea.

He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross which Mrs Dunne was wearing when she first met Prince Harry.

“He said, ‘That’s what attracted me over here,’” Mrs Dunne told Jeffreys about her first meeting with the Prince.

“He said, ‘I’m glad I came over.’ We were just chatting for a little while and then they kept saying to him, ‘We’ve got to go. We’ve got to go.’ But he didn’t worry about that. He just continued on with what he was doing which was talking to me and then when he started to go he gave me a kiss on the cheek.”

Mrs Dunne joked that when she met Prince Harry again in 2017 he gave her a kiss on the other cheek “because I was lopsided”.

Prince Harry didn’t let the rain stop having a second smooch with Daphne Dunne when he met her again in 2017. Picture: Toby Zerna

“So where does the third kiss go then today?” Jeffreys asked.

“I don’t know — mightn’t even get it,” Mrs Dunne laughed.

As excited as she is about potentially chatting to Prince Harry again, Mrs Dunne is even more eager to meet Meghan Markle, and she’s even got a gift for the couple.

“Just some flowers and I’ll tell them they will be very, very happy. I think that’s more important than any gift. I think it’s a gift on its own, to wish them happiness.”

Jeffreys asked Mrs Dunne what she’d like to say to them if she meets them.

“‘Hello, it’s wonderful to meet you and meet you Harry again, it’s absolutely wonderful. But to meet your wife I think it is absolutely marvellous.’”

On two occasions 98-year-old Daphne Dunne stole Prince Harry's heart! Now she's looking to get a third kiss from the royal as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex begin their official tour. #9Today pic.twitter.com/ocFKkKsLIH

— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) October 15, 2018

Mrs Dunne previously opened up to the Canberra Times about losing her first husband.

Lieutenant Albert Chowne had arranged for some flowers to be delivered to Mrs Dunne’s work to celebrate her birthday and their first wedding anniversary.

“Just after the flowers he had arranged to have sent arrived, my lieutenant came over and told me I was ‘wanted at home’,” Mrs Dunne said in 2013.

“My heart sank. You were rarely sent home and it was never good news.’’

Mrs Dunne was told that her husband had keen killed, and was later informed that he was being awarded the Victoria Cross.

“I am proud for him but it doesn’t make up for everything,’’ Mrs Dunne told the Sydney Morning Herald at the time of her husband’s death in 1945.

“I would rather he had remained just ordinary and was alive. He was a wonderful man and a grand husband. I have no plans for the future. It is all dead to me now.’’

Mrs Dunne did go on to marry again a decade after her first husband’s death. Her second husband was Corporal John Dunne, another war hero who was captured by the enemy in 1942 and spent time in Changi.

Daphne Dunne on her wedding day with first husband, Albert Chowne, in 1944. Picture: Tim Hunter