Meghan Markle is in mourning.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, announced on Tuesday that her rescue dog Guy has died.
Captioning a video montage she posted on Instagram, Markle wrote, “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.”
“They referred to him as ‘the little guy’ because he was so small and frail,” the Duchess added. “[S]o I named him ‘Guy’. And he was the best guy any girl could have asked for.”
Meghan found Guy prior to meeting Prince Harry when she lived in Toronto, where her show “Suits” filmed. At that point in her life, the former actress was active on social media and ran a lifestyle blog called The Tig.
Harkening back to that time, she said, “If you followed me on instagram back in the day, you saw a lot of him – and on The Tig too. He was with me at Suits, when I got engaged, (and then married), when I became a mom….he was with me for everything: the quiet, the chaos, the calm, the comfort.”
“He endured a terrible accident shortly before I moved to the UK which had him undergoing surgeries for several months and unable to leave the clinic,” Meghan continued.
“Doctors said he would never walk again, but Dr Noel Fitzpatrick said he could do it.”
Referring to Prince Harry, who she often calls “H,” she recalled, “H and I would drive late at night, after hours, to see Guy as he recovered in Surrey for months on end.”
“I will always be grateful to Noel and his team, the team at Queen West Animal Hospital in TO, our vets now, and my friends and community: Thank you for loving him so.”
Speaking of her upcoming cooking show on Netflix, “With Love, Meghan” (out Jan. 15), the Duchess wrote, “Because many of you will now see Guy in this new series, I hope you’ll come to understand why I am so devastated by his loss.”
“I think you may fall a little bit in love too,” she said in the caption.
“I have cried too many tears to count,” Meghan confessed. “[T]he type of tears that make you get in the shower with the absurd hope that the running water on your face will somehow make you not feel them, or pretend they’re not there.”
“But they are. And that’s okay too.”
She concluded, “Thank you for so many years of unconditional love, my sweet Guy. You filled my life in ways you’ll never know.”
Meghan signed off, “As ever, Meghan.”
Guy was included in Meghan and Harry’s 2024 holiday card, along with their new dog, another rescue beagle, Momma.
Meghan had another rescue dog while living in Toronto prior to marrying Harry, a labrador-shepherd mix named Bogart.
Unlike Guy, Bogart did not come with Meghan when she moved to the UK.
“He’d been so traumatized by the siege of her house, by the constant ringing of the doorbell, that his demeanor changed when Meg was around,” Prince Harry wrote of Bogart in his memoir “Spare.” “He’d become an aggressive guard dog.”
“Meg’s neighbors had graciously agreed to adopt him,” he added.
Meghan spoke about Bogart and Guy in the interview she and Harry did with the BBC in 2017 following the announcement of their engagement,
“Well, I have two dogs that I’ve had for quite a long time, both my rescue pups,” she said. “And one is now staying with very close friends and my other little guy is — yes, he’s in the U.K., he’s been here for a while.”
