The Duchess of Sussex was photographed with the group on their way to dinner
Meghan Markle was in Los Angeles before her trip to New York.
The Duchess of Sussex, 42, smiled for a selfie with journalist Jen Su and two other friends that the TV host posted on Instagram on Thursday.
“We landed in LA and on our way to dinner, ran into Meghan Markle. Totally quiet and super friendly, nice conversation,” Su captioned the photo, which was taken in a parking lot at night.
Su re-shared the image to open the next Instagram carousel and shed more light on the surprise meeting.
“Arrived in LA and ran straight into the fabulous Meghan Markle. What a great way to start the trip!” said Su.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Head to NYC to Host World Mental Health Day Summit (Exclusive)
The photo surfaced on social media on the same day that PEOPLE exclusively revealed that Meghan and Prince Harry will be stepping out in New York next week for World Mental Health Day.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be in NYC on Tuesday, October 10 for the first in-person event of their Archewell Foundation, providing a platform for parents facing mental health challenges in today’s digital age.
The Archewell Foundation will host ‘Archewell Foundation Parent Summit: Mental Health in the Digital Age‘ to give a voice to families who are passionate about building a safer online world for children and teens, PEOPLE exclusively revealed. The conversation will explore how we as a community, both globally and locally, create positive change and support each other in developing solutions to empower families and elevate our collective mental well-being.
The summit will feature parents who have experienced a tragic loss related to their child’s use of social media. Meghan and Harry have been working behind the scenes with parents involved in next week’s event, PEOPLE has learned.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle meeting with NATO representatives at the 2023 Invictus Games in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry visit teenagers to discuss social media pressures for Mental Health Awareness Month
“The families have worked with the Archewell Foundation over the past year, strengthening the community and finding solutions,” a spokesperson for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex told PEOPLE. “Together, they are united in their mission to share personal experiences, data and research to ensure the same thing doesn’t happen to other families.”
Prince Harry, 39, and Meghan, 42, will attend the summit alongside Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to discuss the importance of this work and explore potential solutions, in a conversation moderated by Healthy Minds Project board member Carson Daly.
The Archewell Foundation Parents’ Summit will be Meghan and Harry’s first trip to NYC after the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision in May, where the Duchess of Sussex was honored. The following day, a spokesman for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said the couple and Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland were involved in a “near-disastrous car chase at the hands of a group of very aggressive paparazzi”.
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Harry and Meghan have long made mental health a key tenant of their public affairs, and in recent years have supported World Mental Health Day and Mental Health Awareness Month with a focus on young people. In 2020, the couple joined Therapy for teenagers podcast and spoke with five high school seniors in Anaheim, California about prioritizing mental health. In May, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex spent time with teenagers aged 14 to 18 from AHA! Santa Barbara on how mental well-being is affected by social pressures and social media in the digital age.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have also made a number of mental health engagements before stepping back from their royal roles in 2020, following beach talks with OneWave, an Australian surfing group dedicated to raising awareness of mental health, and a visit to Waves for Change , an organization that supports local mentors who provide mental health services to vulnerable young people living in under-resourced communities in South Africa.
The Archewell Foundation Parents’ Summit will be Harry and Meghan’s first joint appearance since the 2023 Invictus Games in Düsseldorf, Germany, which marked the sixth cycle of the international adaptive sports tournament for staff and veterans launched by the Duke of Sussex in 2014.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the closing ceremony of the 2023 Invictus Games in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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