Before the world knew Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were a couple, the two were keeping their budding romance carefully under wraps — and using secret "code" names to do it.

"My husband's very, very handsome. But his heart is even more beautiful," she said of the Duke of Sussex on Jamie Kern Lima's podcast Monday.

Meghan Markle was once asked on a date by former Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole, but a journalist warned her off the idea of seeing him, and the former actress went on to marry Prince Harry