Meghan Markle, Prince Harry Step Out with Serena Williams for Lunch in N.Y.C.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry hung out with a detailed pal in New York Metropolis after they have been honored at a psychological well being occasion this week.

On Friday, Oct. 10, the duo squeezed in time for lunch with Serena Williams whereas they have been on the town for a sequence of scheduled appearances, PEOPLE can verify.

Meghan, 44, Harry, 41, and Williams, 44, all dined at New York’s Soho Home.

The tennis star and the Duchess of Sussex first met on the Tremendous Bowl in 2010. Once they crossed paths once more in 2014, Meghan and Williams hit it off “instantly” and have been shut since.

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Earlier this week, on Thursday, Oct. 9, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex accepted the Humanitarians of the Yr Award at Venture Wholesome Minds’ third annual World Psychological Well being Day Gala. The pair was honored for his or her digital security and psychological well being work as co-founders of the Archewell Basis.

“Working with households and younger individuals to prioritize security on-line has been a number of the most significant work of our lives. As mother and father ourselves, now we have been moved to motion by the ability of their tales and are honored to assist them,” Harry and Meghan mentioned in an earlier joint assertion. “We’re proud to be long-time companions of Venture Wholesome Minds as we work collectively to shine a lightweight on what stays probably the most urgent problems with our time.”

The couple, who share two kids, Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4, additionally attended Venture Wholesome Minds’ annual World Psychological Well being Day Competition on Oct. 10 alongside a slate of different stars, from Katie Couric and Carson Daly to Deepak Chopra and Sophia Bush.

Below the umbrella of the Archewell Basis, Harry and Meghan established The Mother and father’ Community, a corporation providing assist for households whose kids have been negatively impacted by social media, at an earlier World Psychological Well being Day Competition again in 2023.

Meghan additionally marked one other achievement in New York Metropolis in Might 2023, when she was acknowledged as a Girl of Imaginative and prescient Award honoree by the Ms. Basis, showing alongside Harry and her mom, Doria Ragland.

Previous to that go to, she additionally celebrated a serious milestone within the Empire Metropolis, stepping out with pals, from Amal Clooney and Serena Williams, to Gayle King and Abigail Spencer, for her child bathe in February 2019.

“It was precisely what she wanted, and it was a reunion for all of us, too, who hadn’t seen one another for the reason that wedding ceremony,” Meghan’s pal and wedding ceremony make-up artist Daniel Martin advised PEOPLE on the time.