Prince Harry and Meghan Markle hold hands in Canada in first public appearance as a couple

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Britain’s Prince Harry and his girlfriend actress Meghan Markle watch the wheelchair tennis event during the Invictus Games in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 25, 2017. Photo: Reuters

Published: 4:30am, 26 Sep 2017Updated: 10:18am, 26 Sep 2017

Prince Harry and his girlfriend Meghan Markle have made their first official public appearance as a couple.

The prince and Markle held hands on Monday as they walked toward Toronto’s city hall and attended a wheelchair tennis event at Harry’s Invictus Games for wounded veterans.

Both were dressed casually, the prince sporting jeans with a black polo shirt while his girlfriend wore a white button-down shirt with blue jeans ripped at the knee.

Prince Harry, right, arrives with his girlfriend Meghan Markle at the wheelchair tennis competition during the Invictus Games in Toronto on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Markle, a Toronto-based actor, appeared at the games’ opening ceremony this weekend, cheering from the stands while Harry sat four rows and a section away beside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US first lady Melania Trump.

The couple has been photographed together in the past but this is the first time they have appeared together at an official event. The two sat together and took in a match of the wheelchair tennis between Australia and New Zealand at the small venue. Both wore dark sunglasses on an uncommonly hot sunny day for Toronto in late September.