EXCLUSIVEHarry and Meghan's new BFFs: He's an impossibly handsome polo-playing model with limitless 基金s and a 抱擁する 広い地所. And his 平等に beautiful wife just got a マリファナ of Meghan's jam. ALISON BOSHOFF 明らかにする／漏らすs all
The 'bromance' between Prince Harry and Nacho Figueras ― the 豊富な, handsome and 影響力のある 'David Beckham of polo' ― grows, it would seem, ever 深い. Over one week alone, there have been three very public 陳列する，発揮するs of affection.
In one, Harry's wife, Meghan, sent a jar of strawberry jam ― the first 製品 from her much-心配するd lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard ― to Nacho's socialite wife, Delfina Blaquier.
Delfina, who is a model, photographer and polo player, 地位，任命するd a picture of her jar, 示すd 10/50, on Instagram with the words: 'Strawberry jam makes me happy. And I love your jam, @AmericanRivieraOrchard.'
And then there were the 外見s of the two couples together at two celebrity polo matches in Florida ― one of them a 利益 for the Prince's charity Sentebale.
Meghan kissed Nacho, held 手渡すs with his daughter, Alba, and clasped Delfina ― her 'polo wife' and 'sister' ― in a 十分な-on embrace と一緒に the polo field.
Harry, who is いっそう少なく demonstrative, walked pink-cheeked in step with Nacho, a handsome globe-trotting 助言者 who just might be Harry's one true friend.
Nacho, barefoot in ジーンズs, exuded casual 冷静な／正味の. Harry, いっそう少なく so.
It was the charity Sentebale, 設立するd by Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, which first brought Harry into Nacho's 軌道 way 支援する in 2007, when Nacho ― the sport's most famous 人物／姿／数字 at the time ― agreed to 参加する a fundraising match for the charity.
Harry, then just 24 and in the 過程 of training to be a ヘリコプター 操縦する, was in New York on his first 公式の／役人 trip abroad.
Meghan and Prince Harry with their friends Nacho Figueras and his wife Delfina Blaquier at the 王室の Salute Polo Challenge in Palm Beach, Florida, last 週末
Harry and Nacho celebrating at the the 2009 Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic on 知事s Island in New York City
Nacho's wife Delfina comes from the highest circles of Argentine society.?Her polo-mad family has a 30,000-acre 広い地所 in the country
Nacho embraces Harry and Meghan during the prize 儀式 for the 王室の Salute Polo Challenge last 週末
The friends at the heart of the 活動／戦闘 in the Sentebale ISPS Handa Polo Cup at the Roma Polo Club in Rome, Italy
He made some rather juvenile 予備交渉s of friendship に向かって Nacho, spitting シャンペン酒 in his 直面する during the cup 贈呈 儀式.
Nacho didn't look all that delighted by the いたずら, but they stayed in touch and kept playing polo together.
'井戸／弁護士席, I don't call him every morning to ask him what he had for breakfast, but yes, we have a 関係,' Nacho said two years later.
By 2017, they were on の近くに enough 条件 for Harry to confide in Nacho that he had met someone special ― American TV actress Meghan Markle.
'We've just met, but I think this might be the one,' Harry told him.
Nacho said: 'You could tell 権利 away that those were the 注目する，もくろむs of someone who had fallen in love.'
He later told People magazine that he knew 'first 手渡す' that Harry was longing to be a father, and 追加するd that the prince had 設立する 'an amazing partner' in Meghan.
Nacho and wife Delfina …に出席するd the 王室の wedding at Windsor in 2018, and made the 削減（する） for the evening 歓迎会 (unlike the Beckhams).
The に引き続いて year, Nacho referred to the couple as 'heroes' on Ellen DeGeneres's 雑談（する） show.
After Harry and Meghan moved to California, they saw more of each other. Harry started to play for Nacho's Los Padres polo team in Santa Barbara. Nacho 発言／述べるd it meant that they 'really 社債d more than we've ever 社債d before'.
He said: '存在 able to play with him for two months in a real 競争 with the Los Padres team was a dream come true for me, and maybe for him, too ...
'We got to spend a lot of time together on the field; off the field with our families. It's an honour to be his チーム仲間.'
By now, of course, Harry's 関係 with his older brother, Prince William, was in ashes.
In August 2023 Harry and Nacho travelled together (by 私的な jet) to play a charity polo match in Singapore, goofing around, trying on sunglasses and having fun.
Montecito 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Richard Mineards says: 'I think Harry considers Nacho more like a brother than a good friend, 特に given the schism with the Prince of むちの跡s.'
Mineards 追加するs that Nacho's relentless positivity about Harry is an 資産.
'Nacho often speaks 公然と about their 関係 and how wonderful Harry and his 意向s are.'
You could, in fact, make the 事例／患者 that Harry and Meghan's life in California 借りがあるs much to Nacho's patronage.
The glamorous couple at Harry and Meghan's wedding at St George's Chapel, Windsor, in 2018
The boys 提起する／ポーズをとるing in women's sunglasses on a shopping trip for 扱う／治療するs to take home to Meghan from their trip to Japan
He was the one, for instance, who introduced Harry and Meghan to Ellen DeGeneres. The former 雑談（する） show host remains their 主要な／長／主犯 celebrity 接触する and has not swerved in her support for the couple.
Ellen, in turn, introduced the Sussexes to her money man, Adam Lilling, who 始める，決める Meghan up with her first 投資, in Clevr Blends drinks and ― even more crucially ― had Harry introduced to the online mental health and career coaching start-up BetterUp, which gave him a 井戸／弁護士席-paid 職業.
But in the world of polo, it is Nacho rather than Harry who is considered 王族.
The Argentine will 人物／姿／数字 ひどく in the Netflix 文書の about the sport which Prince Harry is making, and the two men were seen together in Palm Beach, Florida, this week during a break in filming.
Harry's disdainful 関係 with the マスコミ is an old story, 井戸／弁護士席 told, but Nacho, 47, loves to talk to reporters and has spent many years 存在 (admiringly) profiled and having his friendships with famous people, such as the singer Madonna and the artist Jeff Koons, used to put his beloved sport on the 地図／計画する.
This week he let slip that the Netflix 文書の is 存在 put together not so much to 診察する the エリート sport, but more to give Sentebale a 全世界の 上げる.
He 追加するd that he hoped Harry and his children, Archie and Lili, would soon join him, and the cameras, to film in Botswana, where the charity is active. He also talked about how meaningful Harry finds it to be in Africa ― and how everyone there is desperate to 会合，会う the prince's children.
So who are this couple who mean so much to Harry and Meghan? It s hould be 定評のある from the 手始め that as much divides Harry and Nacho as 部隊s them.
Where Harry has, sadly, succumbed to the Windsor male pattern baldness 老年の only 39, 47-year-old Nacho is ageing like a very 罰金 ワイン.
The looks which made him a male model when he was 20 ― his fantastic teeth and hair, year-一連の会議、交渉／完成する tan, and chiselled 団体／死体 of a Greek God bowled over the 伝説の photographer Bruce Weber ― remain very much in 需要・要求する.
Actor Andrew Rannells said after watching him play in the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic: 'He's like a magical god, 特に when you see him on the horse. You're like 'How is that a man, and I'm a man? How are we the same 種類?'.'
There is seemingly nothing that Nacho cannot do: he paints, he cooks, and he is a successful 実業家. 'Winning is a custom,' he shrugs.
His career has followed an endlessly 上向き trajectory and he appears to have limitless 基金s, with a 抱擁する 広い地所 in Argentina, a fabulous home in Florida (both of them 著名な enough to have had the distinction of featuring in Architectural Digest) and an art collection which runs to Warhol, Basquiat and Jackson Pollock.
How Harry must wish that some of this golden touch would rub off on him.
Born Ignacio Figueras, Nacho is the son of agronomist Horacio and his wife, Mercedes. He has some 目だつ forbears: his 広大な／多数の／重要な-広大な／多数の／重要な-広大な／多数の／重要な grandfather was a の近くに 助言者 to 大統領 Julio Argentino Roca.
Nacho grew up with two younger sisters in a tight-knit middle-class family on a small farm outside Buenos 空気／公表するs, and told one interviewer that his doting father spent 'more than he could afford' to support his son's 利益／興味 in polo.
In a 一打／打撃 of good luck, one of his father's best friends played the sport and had a son who was also polo mad. And so young Nacho was sent off to spend 週末s on the family 広い地所 with Lucas Monteverde Jr, who became a 'ten-goal player' ― the highest possible 最高位の in polo, held by only around 20 players in the world. (In time, Nacho became an eight-goaler, although he has slipped to a six, putting him in the 最高の，を越す 100.)
In 1994, 老年の 17, Nacho turned professional and left home to join a French polo team. That was the start of a long and successful career on the polo 回路・連盟, which moves from Bridgehampton, Connecticut, to Wellington, Florida, and on to the Napa Valley and Windsor, Ascot and so on.
It's the sexiest of sports, Nacho has 認める. 'I think there's something about a man on a horse, 権利?' he said. 'The boots, the pants, the shirt, the helmet. You have guys running around on horses in prime 場所s and 競技者s ― they are not short-butts; they are aesthetic people.
'And it's a rough sport ? it has 速度(を上げる）, it has adrenaline and it can be dangerous. So when you put it all together ... there's a 推論する／理由 why Ralph Lauren 選ぶd the sport to 代表する his brand. He 選ぶd one of the most aspirational and sexy and elegant sports out there.'
Another lucky break （機の）カム in 1999 in the Hamptons, during a dinner hosted by Kelly Klein, the then wife of designer Calvin. She seated him with photographer Bruce Weber, who 発射 all the Ralph Lauren （選挙などの）運動をするs.
Handsome polo player Nacho made an obvious impression and 提起する／ポーズをとるd for his first Ralph Lauren Polo （選挙などの）運動をする in 2000. He 代表するd the brand for 20 years.
In an interview he said: 'In the beginning, I was getting all this feedback from players 説: 'What are you doing? What is this?' But I thought to myself: 'This is a 広大な／多数の／重要な 適切な時期. This is a perfect 橋（渡しをする） to help me 達成する my dream and my 見通し of polo becoming a bigger, more 明白な sport.'
'So I used the money I was getting from modelling to buy better horses and to become a better player.
'There are many guys out there who look like me ― you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does 裏書，是認s for Ralph Lauren on the 味方する, and I've always looked at it that way.'
By this time he was married to Delfina, who comes from the highest circles of Argentine society. Her polo-mad family has a 30,000-acre 広い地所 in the country, her mother was a 公式文書，認めるd beauty and モーター racing driver, and sporty Delfina, with her endless 脚s, competed 国祭的な at high jump. She still plays polo.
She and Nacho had son Hilario when she was only 19 and he was 23. Hilario, now 23, plays polo professionally like his father. 年上の daughter, Aurora, is 熟考する／考慮するing 産業の design in Buenos 空気／公表するs, Artemio, who is 14, also loves polo, and younger daughter, Alba, seen embracing Meghan, loves both polo and show-jumping.
It's a peripatetic life. Winters are spent on a 30-acre 広い地所 outside the town of General Rodriguez, where the family keep around 45 horses. A couple of months of the year are spent in Florida, a few more in the Hamptons.
The only cloud on the horizon is Nacho's age. At 47, he is on borrowed time as a sportsman. He broke his hip during a game in England in 2013 when he fell and his horse landed on 最高の，を越す of him. He had to 嘘（をつく） still for two weeks in Chichester hospital and 避けるd 外科 ― but said that by the time he was in his 中央の-40s his career would start going downhill. To which end he's been diversifying.
Nacho 設立するd the Polo Classic, which is held 毎年 in both New York and Los Angeles and draws a celebrity （人が）群がる. He also lent his 指名する to a perfume, and a 一連の bonkbusting romance novels, which were written by two 女性（の） ghosts.
He has many friends, の中で them Coldplay's Chris ツバメ, the fashion designer Valentino, Hollywood actress Kate Hudson, 歓待 大君 Andre Balazs and art 巨人 Julian Schnabel.
加える, of course, Prince Harry and Meghan, かもしれない his greatest fans of all.
