Royal love in the age of social media…it’s a tricky thing. Made even more tricky by the fact that Prince Harry’s girlfriend Meghan Markle is a working actress with an existing humanitarian profile. Meghan’s coworker posted the above Instagram over the weekend, declaring a wrap on filming for Suits. Where will Meghan go now? She has a place in Toronto, where Suits films, but she’s an LA girl and I sort of wonder if she’s going back to California. Prince Harry has just started a two-week Caribbean tour, so they won’t get to see each other until December. Will he fly to Meghan? Will he go to LA to meet her family? Is that how quickly this relationship is moving? I don’t know. But Meghan wants you to know that she’s in it to win it, “it” being the ring? From People:
With her relationship moving swiftly along, Meghan Markle is willing to make sacrifices in the name of love. The Suits star, who began dating Prince Harry earlier this year, is “head over heels” for the royal and “doing everything she can to make the relationship work,” a friend of the actress tells PEOPLE exclusively. “It’s been an absolute fairy tale for Meghan.”
The couple has been fitting in time with each other when possible, and Markle, 35, made a short trip to London last week to visit her boyfriend, 32. According to the friend, she’s also making an effort to make her life more private than before.
“She’s trying to figure out how to scale back what she puts out there about her life, including her social media and her website,” says the pal of Markle, who runs her lifestyle website The Tig. “If she had to leave all that she’s doing in order for the relationship to work, she would without hesitation.” Adds the friend, “It’s a very serious relationship and she wants a future with Harry.”
That’s interesting that she’s starting to think seriously about her next steps and whether she needs to delete or step away from her online presence. I still believe that there are several factors not working in Meghan’s favor, like the fact that she’s divorced AND American, but it will be fascinating to see how she balances a life as an actress/humanitarian with a life as a royal girlfriend. And if she can find a balance… will she be Instagramming their love? Will she and Harry become Instagram-official? Hm.
People Mag also ran this story with quotes from people who have met Meghan during her charity/humanitarian work. Those people say she’s “extremely bright” and “a very balanced, mature, original thinker.” Sure.
Here are some cute photos of Harry this week:
Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.
I am rooting you too. Try and make this relationship work Meghan Markle. PLEASE.
I need some Meghan/ Harry distraction in my life. Like yesterday.
How dare she try and make it work with the man she wants to be with! I know women who would give up their life for a man that they kinda had the feels for lol, so this is not news to me. i don’t think that he is going to be the one making a lot of changes here, did someone think he would?
I don’t know, a 35 year old woman gushing about her boyfriend and the “fairy tale” she is living? And she’s willing to give it all up for a guy she only knows for 6 months or so, and a long distance relationship at that?
I know everyone here is rooting for this, but I think she has no idea of the circus she would enter, and I don’t think he gets her thirst for fame. If they end up together, I think this will end in tears.
Rania and Letizia gave up their careers to marry men within 1 year of meeting them. 20+ and 10+ years later those marriages are doing just fine, and those women are examples of how to use your royal position for good.
Divorced, and American and black.
Let’s not, not say the obvious.
While I’d like to think the monarchy is at some new juncture where they’d embrace people of all ethnic backgrounds into their almost all white (and sometimes inbred) genes- i don’t think they’re there yet.
I remember when people were saying Diana was in trouble with the monarchy because she was dating Dody Fayed the heir to Harrad’s. Like they didn’t even want the ex wife of the Prince and mother of his children just dating someone of Arabic background. Supposedly That was the rumor anyway. Another rumor was that they were close to getting married.
I caught that terrible Diana film on Tv one night. Her big love was apparently a Pakistani doctor. She definitely dated POC.
I never saw that Diana movie but it was a widely known rumor that she was really in love with the doctor and used Dody to make him jealous.
I saw it. I never heard anything about Diana and the doctor, so the movie was crony and good to me. Also in the movie it looked like she wanted to make the doctor jealous so she used Dody. I don’t think she was very much in love with Dody.
The public keeps insisting on this fanfiction when the reality is right in their faces.
1. Divorce
Charles and Anne are divorced, remarried to divorcees. In Charles’s case, his formely divorced current wife was also his mistress.
2. American
Wallis Simpson was an easy scapegoat for all the reasons the establishment wanted to remove David. Connsequently everything about her became a perjorative, but it was also specific to her, not Americans in general.
Nationality hasn’t been a problem for several generations because the following are all foreigners/foreign born; Autumn Philips (Canadian), Gary Lewis ( New Zealand), Princess Michael (German), Princess Marina ( Greek), Duchess of Gloucester (Danish) and most important of all, Prince Philip ( Greek).
3. Black
Clearly not a problem since Meghan has been officially declared, she’s openly stayed at Kensington Palace, and been the subject of an official Palace statement.
Finally, there are several black/non white members of the wider family or former partners so it was only a matter of time before the main branch had a non white member or dating partner.
Further, Dodi Fayed was one more rebellious act for Diana because his father was a pain in the side of the establishment. Diana was already in trouble with the establishment for very different reasons eg the fact that she directly challenged the monarchy by her stunt queening every where and openly questioning Charles’s suitability for the throne. She also campaigned against land mines in direct opposition to govt arms policy.
After her death, his father started peddling an anti-Arab reason which took hold, but mostly people were aghast that she would date someone like him. It was also the father who peddled the engaged/preganant rumours which all her friends/staff denied at the various inquests.
If you notice, no one said simikar things about Hasnat Khan, a muslim Pakistani. If anything, every article about him is complimentary and e eryone is agreement that she wanted to marry him to extent that she visited his family in Pakistan to try to persuade them to accept her into their family for such an eventuality.
Hmm, I get what you’re saying, but all of those people possessed just one of the qualities deemed “unfit” for royalty. Meghan possesses all of them at once.
This isn’t my opinion of course, just looking at it through the lens of a crotchety old white monarchy.
People don’t remember how problematic Camilla and Philip were. We are talking constitutionally problematic rather than socially problematic. Even now, the idea of Camilla being Queen is still being soft peddled.
Meghan is nowhere near that level of problematic.
And Harry is a spare which allows for a more relaxed approach in partners compared to heirs like Charles or the Queen.
I totally agree about the divorce issue, Lak. It’s a null. Being an American, even less. The elephant in the room of public discourse is her race, which should be irrelevant since it’s Harry’s choice to date her, not the people’s.
Imagine if they tried to slip Philip in these days? They’d never get away with changing his name and pretending the German family didn’t exist. His blessed mother would have been mocked endlessly in the press and social media. I can see it now. “She only hid that Jewish family from the Nazis to try to make her son look good” diatribes.
People also tend to forget that Anne and Tim had an affair while she was married to Mark Phillips. It was the public revealing of that affair that forced the divorce from Phillips. In hindsight, it gets whitewashed with talk of Mark’s affairs and his out-of-wedlock daughter, but neither of them were faithful in that 15 year marriage.
Diana only “dated” Dodi for a very short time before her accident. She had been dating a Pakistani for a long time before that (and even visited his family in Pakistan). She had even taken private lessons on converting to Islam. Her whole reason for her very public, sudden relationship with Dodi was to manipulate the Pakistani doctor who refused to marry her. Dodi’s father was a notorious character in the UK, not because he was Muslim, but because he was extremely brash and ostentatious, and was well know for trying to bribe officials and politicians. He had been denied UK citizenship numerous times. It had nothing to do with his race or religion, as many, many muslims and Egyptians are given citizenship in the UK. Can we please not try to turn this romance into a racism thing? NO ONE is opposing their romance! Not the British Royal Family, not the Queen, no one.
We have zero idea of what the Queen, Charles or anyone else thinks. None.
My opinion is that her taking her clothes off on film is much more problematic for her as wife material. I thin Harry is having a nice fling and will come home and marry an icy British blonde.,
I think it’s terrible to say she’s black.
She is MIXED.
I don’t know why American people always need to label people with no nuance whatsoever.
I saw a picture of her mother, who is obviously mixed herself. Her father seems to be caucasian.
It’s shocking that a white looking lady like Megan is labelled as black, when less than half her heritage is as such.
I am mixed myself, just like Megan (black and white). But I am much darker, with thick, curly/afro and long hair. I look mixed. I don’t mind being called black because I look black.
But I’d rather people used the word ‘mixed’, because it is what I am. Physically and very importantly also, culturally.
Terrible huh?
How upsetting- getting called black. Boo hoo.
I know it reads that way (and I wish it didn’t) but I don’t think she is saying it is terrible to be black. I think she is saying it is terrible to deny part of a person’s heritage. As a white person, I used to joke that President Obama was white as much as he was black so I didn’t get the furor. He was both. While I better understand now the importance of his black father for a significant part of our population, I also was trying to point out to people that you couldn’t pin his flaws on being of one race or another because he was a beautiful mix of both. We are so much more than the color of our skin and I believe as we begin to be more comfortable with “mixed” heritage, we will gradually (I hope) stop assigning such importance to the color of one’s skin.
Nothing that a good police pull-over for driving (while either actually black or appearing black) wont alleviate …. when they notate on their radio that they have pulled over —-they say I have a black light or medium complected female. Not I have a mulatto or mixed race woman. You know its true, boo.
on another planet not entrenched with the widely socialized ONE DROP RULE ….someone this your aesthetics even just saying or feeling mixed would be taken by mainstream and everyone possibly, as completely valid …like on pluto or mars (o wait maybe not mars the establishment is actively working to colonize that and with that comes the society order and law of the law)
but on earth….you are considered (Mr. President as well) as a black person of mixed heritage… just face the facts. Now on the census feel free to check the boxes away….
my whole point is in terms of race, perception 10/10 is reality, so why not embrace it, again with the Black women with biracial heritage title… it’s actually a realistic gesture and notion honoring all parts involved. Halle Berry’s been saying that, and its not false or not truth
also to YT people commenting on this her comment…. hey you guys set the rules up (yes, even if you want to renege on it now because of said colorblindness and one-race of humanity philosophy in the last 15 or so years…. the privilege, the institutions, law, and society still stands, even moreso when you have “non-black, full white looking aesthetic”—– and even more moreso esp with the message in trump being elected says)
also…. im curious…. do people of eurasian heritage say they are mixed only?
or do they generally absorb into white society and relations and say they either full white or white person with asian ancestry/asian heritage?
hmm i really wonder (no passive aggression here, i promise)
There’s a lot wrong with this post. I should probably just leave it at that.
@Lucinda: thank you for eloquently explaining what I was trying to say.
@Ash.
You know, there are people out there that do not live in America. But that doesn’t mean they live on Pluto or Mars.
I live in London, England (planet Earth) where thankfully, nobody ever labels me. EVER. This is why the French mixed-race girl that I am, has lived there for many years!
So you are saying I am a black woman with a a mixed heritage.
This is YOUR labelling, your perception and your opinion.
I do not define myself according to what other people think of me. I decide who I want to be and other people have to accept it. It works in England where people wait until I define myself and never label me in any way.
My slave ancestors (from my dad’s side) did not accept people’s opinion about their inferiority.
My Hughenots ancestors (from my mum’s side) stood by their opinions also.
And to those who believe that I do not want the label ‘black woman’ because I am somewhat ashamed of my black side. That is not true.
I am proud of being black, and I am proud of being white.
When I wake in the morning, I listen to Chopin, and in the evening, I dance on Caribbean jazz. Both my backgrounds are rich, beautiful and exciting. I embrace both, and I am lucky to have been brought up in a mixed household.
huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh. According to her own words her mother is black. Calling her mixed is the result of your vision of what Black means as a French MIXED woman.
Anybody with a little cultural knowledge know that African Amerians have, as a result of history, many origins.
Chill, I agree with the fact that black people can be too welcoming. But, boo boo, nobody is claiming you!
@Mirage
What I think is “terrible” is you saying it’s “terrible to say she’s black.”
It’s offensive and ignorant.
I’ll take this point by point.
1) Is “mixed,” your own label? Because in America when someone says they’re “mixed,” it almost always means they’re Black or part Black. Either way, I’m a firm advocate of people being allowed to call themselves whatever they like. If you look like Lupita Nyongo and want to call yourself White or you look like Sissy Spacek and want to call yourself Black – more power to you.
2)However, until and unless I read an interview from someone requesting and/or stating they wish to be called this or that, I will, like most people follow the lead of my eyeballs. I see a woman who’s ancestry includes the African diaspora. I see relaxed hair and edges. I see skin that goes from light golden to tawny. I see a possible bad teen nose job that created too much of a pinched look ala Janet and Michael. I see family.
3) To be Black in America is to be “nuanced” as F*. That’s understood, and if you understood our history you wouldn’t suggest otherwise.
4)Her mother is “obviously mixed herself,” as you say, is because to be black in America and many places is to be “obviously mixed.”
5) you say it’s “shocking that a white looking lady like Megan is labelled as black” and I had to laugh my a* off. As soon as I read this I knew you weren’t American. Most of our historical figures and notables from W.E.B. Dubois to Adam Clayton Powell to Pearl Cleage, and many others so ‘white looking’ they’d make Meghan Markle look like Naomi Campbell.
6)Why do so many people of mixed heritage have special snowflake syndrome? What is it to ‘look mixed?’ a significant number of African Americans have less than 50% African heritage even with two ‘black’ parents. 99% of Black folk in America are ‘mixed.’
That said, i don’t care what you choose to. Call yourself. Have at. If you said you were half chartreuse, I would defend your right to say it.
However, don’t attack me because i see a light skin black woman when i look at Meghan Markle. To me, she looks a lot more black than Rashida Jones or Wentworth Miller both of whom I didn’t know were black or part black, when I first saw them.
@lucinda
Trump voter eh? Lol
We don’t know what she’s saying. Or i don’t. But it reads to me like she feels it’s the worst thing in the world when people assume she identifies as black because she looks black.
So what? What’s wrong with someone who, before they meet a person- before they know their background, thinking their lineage obviously includes African. It’s fine to come up after that, and say – oh my Mom is Bahamian and English and my Dad is Italian. Or my Dad is African American, and my Mom is Latina.
Do you think Bill Hader (Stefan on SNL) or Ty Burrell (Dad on Family Matters) get offended because people assume they’re just white guys descended only from white people, and describe them as such? (They have black lineage)
You say as a ‘white person you used to joke that President Obama’s was just as white as he was black, so you didn’t get the furor’
First of all ‘furor’ is the wrong word for the pride African Americans felt that such an intelligent compassionate forward thinking liberal young man of color was elected. His background and identifying as a black man, with a black family was only a bonus in that it enabled a marginalized group to see themselves represented in a proud way. By the same token we would have been horrified if Herman Cain had been elected.
President Obama’s lineage or mixed heritage isn’t unique. In fact for most black people in this country its par for the course. Tamir Rice, John Crawford, and any number of other police shooting victims, racially profiled and then taken out like dogs in the street probably had more European admixture than Obama, that didn’t stop them from getting killed. Obama identifies as black and has no problem sharing his lineage and background in it’s entirety.
As for “assigning such importance to the color of one’s skin” – there are entities and whole political parties and systems in place that ‘assign importance to one’s skin color.’ (See voter suppression efforts in black districts and regions, see environmental racism, see systemic racism and racial profiling and police brutality).I’ll make you a deal– why don’t you go first.
That said, i think we all should be proud of who we are and where we come from- our ethnicities and cultures. We shouldn’t have to subvert them or pretend color blindness to make others feel better about their prejudices.
I disagree about the divorce issue: Charles was only able to marry Camilla AFTER becoming a widower. She wasn’t “good enough” for him to marry, even before she was married herself. Anne is on her second marriage. If Harry was already divorced it might be ok. But this would be his first marriage. I do believe the fact that Meghan is divorced is her biggest hurdle. American? Not a problem. Woman of colour? She doesn’t look it, so that would go quite a way to “soften the blow”.
Yeah, I think Diana dying is pretty much what helped Charles out in marrying Camilla.
I don’t think the marriage could have happened if she had lived — unless, maybe she had married the Pakistani doctor. But he wasn’t going to marry her. So I think she would have just dated around and Camilla would have been with Charles in the shadows.
Diana dying delayed Charles marrying Camilla because it revived the intense Camilla hatred of the early 90s. Project make Camilla acceptable was pushed back several years. Prior to that it had started to gain goodwill to extent that Charles openly held her 50th birthday party at Highgrove, covered by mainstream media.
Secondly, the other important factor was the Queen mother. They might have gone ahead and married regardless of public opinion, but they couldn’t do it with the Queen Mother still living.
Lots of rules were relaxed after the Queen Mother’s death.
Prince Michael married a divorced Marie Christine. A catholic to boot. First marriage for him.
It was said to be constitutionally impossible for the heir to the throne to divorce and when Charles/Diana separated, the Prime Minister reiterated the fact that they wouldn’t divorce. Diana’s panorama interview was so badly received by the Queen that she ordered a divorce, constitution be damned.
Ditto Charles remarrying and to a divorced woman no less.
So much handwringing over the constitutional implications to extent that it was suggested they have a morganatic marriage which Charles refused.
The rules for spares are more relaxed when the heirs have set the precedent.
As much as Charles loved his grandmother, he did get in little digs at her in the end for not accepting Camilla. Camilla’s engagement ring was one of the Queen Mum’s favorite pieces of bling. Plus Camilla wears the Queen Mum’s signature Greville tiara, and wears it well.
Totally agree w/ you but I would say the main reason is her being
1. black
2. divorcee
and
3. American
I feel dumb but i had no idea she is African American. In fact she reminds me somewhat of Middleton. Then again, i am not sure they will work out. It’s Harry, he had decent relationships and they fell apart cos of the pressure. He should find someone as clueless as his sister in law. Meghan does look like Kate but it’s only physical.
Yeah. Meghan reminds me of Pippa Middleton in some photos, just bone structure, but mostly because she possesses the same thirst for attention and rich/titled men that the Middleton’s have. Maybe it’s a prerequisite for the job. Who knows, but the continuous self-aggrandizing about being a humanitarian with not much evidence is a real turn-off. Better to do charity work ‘cos you want to do it rather than your PR company setting it up, complete with photographer to record it. Ugh.
Almondmilk, she’s beige a mixie not black.
I could go on and on about being a mix and not subscribing to be labelled incorrectly, but it irks me, as a beige it irks me.
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
She is not unlike most of the light skin black women in the States and in my family or me even.
If you’re from another country, maybe that explains your cutesy little nicknames for having African lineage. In this country we call it being black or mixed (which still means black)
Maybe they’ll let him do what he wants. She has a degree from a pestigious American university. She seems nice enough and mature. She has a career. Seems like a way better choice than Waity.
I don’t find him attractive physically. She can clearly do so much better her ex boyfriend that chef is super hot. Harry seem very passionate about her though and out of all the royals he has the best personality.
It’s all about Harry’s personality and how he carries himself.
Being a Prince makes you a lot hotter for sure. Doubt she would be going through the trouble if he was a school teacher
Doubt there would be any trouble to go through if he was a school teacher lol.
Doubt she’d be interested in Harry if he didn’t come with money and a title.
She apparently won’t have to balance her work and royal lives because she’s willing to give up her work if need be. At least this is what her ‘pal’ says.
I know this is a special situation but there’s something weird in saying that Meghan is a working actress and next that she is willing to give all that up. She has gained a lot of support because she is her own person, unlike the current duchess, and now there are reports that she would be willing to give all that up no problem.
I despise the tone of that entire article. It’s like the folks at People can’t help themselves. So Harry likes (we assume) that she’s an independent, working woman who is already involved in charity/humanitarian work. BUT she would give it all up! WHY? And would he? I get the feeling Harry likes an equal but People can’t deal with that. Good grief. I would lose all respect for both of them if she ditched it all to be his little wifey. Because she clearly enjoys what she’s doing. Don’t turn her into Duchess Kate.
I wholeheartedly concur.
i would understand that with every other couple but the job of the royals and their partners is just breeding, nothing else.
I don’t know if this is People or Meghan. Especially since the ‘pal’ talking is the guy that runs her website, meaning a pretty close associate, meaning someone that is present in her life right now.
She already took a week off work just to spend it with him. Love is wonderful but how many people take time off when they suddenly fall in love? And I hear TV schedule is tight. The producers definitely love the promotion for Suits so of course they agreed to it.
Time will tell if Meghan is another Kate.
The US Weekly article (I know) implied filming wrapped before she left for London. They’re done until January. That would mean she didn’t mess with any filming schedule, it was just another thing for people to use to attack her.
QueenB, I get that but Harry? He’s now fifth in line and I’m pretty sure his brother and his wife will have another one, that would make him sixth. I don’t know that his no. 1 job is to produce potential heirs. I would say at this point it’s all about the PR and he is golden when it comes to that. I don’t think these rules apply to him at this point.
There are thousands of people in line to the British throne; reproducing is not in the job mandate. Queen Fabiola and King Badouin of Belgium never had children. It was a great personal sorrow to them that it didn’t happen. The throne, however, quietly transitioned to his brother and then his nephew with no trouble. Just as the UK throne transitioned in the last century from brother to brother to niece/daughter.
That is Harry’s dilemma: all his girlfriends have been independent, ambitious women, but his wife won’t be able to have a proper job. Other women who married into the royal family and had jobs had to eventually quit. The reason being conflict of interest. People very quickly will start wondering if she is using her royal connections/title to gain an unfair advantage. It’s what happened to Sophie Wessex. Look at the Middletons: they were slated for selling princess birthday party themed products, when they own a party product company. There is a lot of scrutiny over here.
@Als
“She already took a week off work just to spend it with him”. That is incorrect, she was only in London for 2 days. Harry on the other hand spent a week in Toronto.
@Nota:
Meghan posted to Instagram on this past Sunday that filming wrapped this past Sunday morning. So no, filming did not wrap before she took that vacation in London.
@Trixie
It’s usual for actors to have free days while filming something because they can’t be in every scene ever. I don’t watch Suits but isn’t she a supporting character? That means frequent off time during filming.
I am pretty sure they are talking about her social media use, the website etc. As that is the context it was discussed in. She was a pretty consistent user of social media including posting a lot of content on her blog. That’s obviously something that has to change.’
That’s how I read it too. He doesn’t mention humanitarian work or acting, only social media / web content.
I don’t think it means she’ll give it all up to be MeghanBot. I think it means she’d give it up to be with Harry and join up with him in some of his work and perhaps branch out on her own. At least I hope that’s what it means.
That was my impression too. She’d give up the social media aspect for now, if it was endangering the relationship or was advised by the Palace. Not that she give up working as an actress or working on humanitarian projects. Just not engage in social media in the same way anymore.
Yup, I can see them being kindred spirits in that way. Harry appears to be very different from the typical member of the royal family that we have become familiar with. I could see him pairing with a woman that has forged her own individual path in an industry that does have its “standards”. Makes me happy. My cynical little mind is chosing love today.
She can run social media like Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, or Michelle Obama. It’s not hard to do. And if she is serious about the humanitarian work, she can continue with that and even increase her profile. Being married to Harry won’t interfere with that. Just the acting part.
I wouldnt exactly say shes “closing in on 40”, Thats the kind of sexist talk that keeps the thing going as soon as a woman turns 30.
She’d have to give up acting if she were to marry Harry, I would think anyway. Her humanitarian work though would be a big asset to her life as a royal. I can’t imagine she’d have to give that up.
She’d be required to expand her humanitarian work. Whomever he marries, I hope that spouse sets up her own charity along the lines of Sentebale. Something that is hers, that gets a large focus of her time, and that she works hard at. Not just the umbrella charity things W&K keep doing, where they stand around taking credit for everyone else’s work.
Like Queen Silvia’s Childhood charity that has offices in several countries.
But what would she really be giving up work-wise? Before dating Harry I didn’t know her name (and I even watched suits for a bit). Her show has been on for a long time and I’m sure the end is in sight. She’s a beautiful woman, but she’s not a ridiculously talented actress and she’s closing in on 40. Hollywood is notoriously prejudiced towards women on the wrong side of 35 and I’m sure she’s aware that good roles will be more difficult to come by. Marrying Harry would give her the platform to bring even more recognition to her charities of choice and to be able to focus on that work without having to worry about keeping a roof over her head.
(Disclaimer- I don’t think she longs to be a kept woman like Kate – rather that she’s practical and hard working and can see the benefits of this relationship).
ETA – @Nota – I should have just waited for you to reply. You summed it up so nicely. That’s what I think she’ll do – build up a really awesome charity that she can truly focus on.
I agree with both of you above. Lots of people have to give something up/navigate their careers differently when they get married, and there are always pros and cons. Pro: start a charity or organization that means a lot to you, and be able to put all your energy and (if she were to become a member of the royal family) considerable popularity behind it. Con: giving up an acting career, which may or may not have any longevity. I’m not saying it’s easy or a no-brainer, but I do think it’s a little less dramatic than it seems.
Maxima, Charlene, Daniel have taken their career interests and been able to use that knowledge in some of their royal work. It could even be an acting-related charity, so her training could be utilized.
Helping PTSD veterans and bullied teens learn to work through difficult situations using role play scenarios, etc. She’d have to work actively with it, and bring on experts, not just be a figurehead. That’s the only way to make it her own.
The truth is, because of Harry being 5th in line, aside from the fact that his home is provided, and his public appearances (travel and hotel) paid for, Harry makes about what a mid-level salesman makes as far as salary goes. If Meghan wants to continue to have nice clothes and whatnot, she will have to continue working.
Her working clothing budget would be provided by the Duchy. Hopefully she would spend less than $200,000 of the taxpayers money on clothing each year, unlike Kate Middleton. For private clothing? She has the money she has earned and Harry has a personal inheritance of 15-20 million.
Harry inherited most of Diana’s estate. He is extremely wealthy.
Nope. He inherited half of Diana’s “estate”, and 40% of that went to taxes. So what is left is around 6,000,00.
Diana’s estate was estimated at £19 million when she died in 1997. Investments increased it through the intervening 17 years. He got his half at age 30 and paid inheritance tax.
He also inherited millions from the Queen Mum, £4.5 million in 1994 money. More like £9 million today and that doesn’t include how it increased through investments over 20+ years. That was inherited in 2002 without tax, because of the wily use of a trust.
I would normally agree, but in Meghan’s case let’s face it, her acting is not going to set the world on fire, she’s mainly hired for ‘sexy girl’ roles. And THAT definitely wouldn’t be approved of/allowed if she joined the Royal Family. She’d probably develop her philanthropic interests, and go on joint trips with Harry.
If this works out and we have a wedding, then we will only have Garry the bachelor. Only Garry, so we sit and ponder and watch and see which gal he falls madly in love with . Go team Garry!
Agree, 2 down and 1 to go! Then we could just sit and ponder Garry’s future while smokin’ that good stuff.
It doesnt matter she is divorced etc. Bc harry is the spare. He can marry pretty much anyone. Same went for the queen mother who was only allowed to marry george bc he was the spare. See the queen mum was nobility but not high ranking enough to marry a king…but to marry the spare …yes
Thats also why charles couldnt marry camilla at first bc he is next in line thats why diana had to b a virgin
Diana was not required to be a virgin. Charles didn’t marry Camilla for the simple reason that Camilla didn’t want to marry him. Just like Anne, she wanted Andrew Parker-Bowles. She eventually won Andrew, but she was happy to dally with Charles on the side while she was waiting for Andrew to decide. Charles and his dithering didn’t help, but Camilla didn’t want to be the future queen, she wanted to be Mrs. Parker-Bowles.
I think Charles and Camilla are a good match. They are the right fit for each other now, but that doesn’t mean they were right for each other back when they first met.
Camilla married someone else while he was deployed in the military. That’s why he didn’t marry Camilla. And btw, Prince William (2nd in line to the throne and heir apparent) married a commoner. There’s no such thing as not being noble enough or “high ranking enough” to marry the heir to the throne.
I never said she needed to be noble or high ranking. There is no such thing as royal or noble blood. The spouses have all been “commoners” recently, including Diana and the Queen Mum. Member of the aristocracy is still commoner-not-royal. Philip was the only one who wasn’t a commoner by birth and he became one by giving up his Danish and Greek royal claims and becoming a UK citizen.
Charles might have wanted to marry Camilla, but she didn’t want to marry him. She wanted to have a dalliance with the Prince of Wales like her ancestor and then marry Andrew Parker-Bowles. Pesky Charles being off on a naval deployment was a convenient time to marry Andrew.
I’m not even sure she wanted to marry Charles in 2005, but public pressure meant the relationship needed to be legalized.
Nota is right. Charles may have dithered, but Camilla wanted to marry Andrew Parker Bowles NOT Charles.
Andrew PB was THE catch of their set not Charles.
And for all his dithering, he was carrying on with Kanga at the same time as Camilla. The three of them were in a love triangle for more than a decade whilst being martied to other people and in the case of Charles, other women on top.
No the queen made diana get an exam to prove her virgi ity. Its in her book.
Sorry notasugarhere I was meaning to reply to Hsfni. The quotes were referring to quotes from her comment.
It’s pretty absurd if the marriage objection centered around her image as a divorcee. Charles and Camilla themselves wrecked their own respective marriages decades earlier.
What is this “objection” everyone is speaking of? There has not been any objection either stated or implied by any member of the British Royal Family or the officials at Kensington Palace!
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Princess-to-be Markle and my dad’s inordinate pleasure in watching an ex-politico on Strictly Come Dancing, are the only things so far worth having in 2016. Oh, also Tiddles.
Please, fate, don’t take this away from me!
It takes two to tango!
That’s what I thought too, but maybe it just takes a Kate or a Meghan or a Jennifer.
There is something to weird and off about her. Also, Harry’s popularity seems to be declining since that statement.
Ya right, his popularity is declining. Try again.
Is there a poll you can direct me too? Or is this an independent survey you carried out based on Daily Fail commentators?….
I have noticed that his popularity seems to be declining as well….I don’t think the press appreciated being chastised and might not have been the best to do it right before a big tour where he needs the press (not saying he should have not sent the statement though).
I don’t dislike her at all, but I still find it fishy that this was all exposed a couple of days before her clothing launch and right after her article was posted about how she can do it both.
Actresses on shows like hers are always promoting themselves, it goes with the territory. And she had several clothing ranges with that department store, the latest of which would have been planned months in advance. She didn’t even attend the launch because she was keeping away from the paps. Are you suggesting that Harry agreed to date her so that her latest small range of ‘random Canadian department store’ clothing sold well?
Harry had quite an eventful night in Antigua. The head of state put him on the spot by asking him when he was getting married and the Miss Universe Antigua was hitting on him hard saying she doesn’t care if he has a girlfriend. Head of state was also telling him there were a lot of beautiful women there he could choose from. It was all a mess!
Yikes! He must have been…not at all happy about that.
I don’t see it working. First it’s going way too fast. Second, she has a career which at the end of the day, she will have to give up, and third, killing animals might not be her idea of a fun Sunday afternoon. If she wants to keep her life private, the BRF is not the way to go. Of course, if she is in love….
I don’t see it working either. Harry will end up in Africa much of the time and he’ll meet a British woman there and get married. That’s my guess.
I want to know what will happen to Mike and Rachel’s relationship if she leaves Suits. I have no issue with her being in it to win it — I just don’t get how she’ll be able to continue her acting career if he’s based in London. I doubt he’s moving to Toronto. I feel like Suits could go on forever since it’s not on a main network.
I actually wouldn’t mind Mike and Rachel breaking up permanently. I like Megan Markle as a person — I just find her character annoying at times.
as much as I believe that everyone should be allowed to choose whom they want to love and marry, Harry isn’t just “anyone”. They’ll let this ride but its not going to be the happy ending, in fact, I”m sure the firm is beginning to grind the slow motion wheels to kill this relationship. Prince William of Gloucester (Prince Charles’ cousin whom he was very close to and whom William is named after) had a love affair for years with a divorced Hungarian older woman. He was barely in line to the throne and he wasn’t allowed to marry her. They were together privately until he died tragically from a plane crash. The firm is still the firm. Harry is fifth in line to the throne and son of the future king himself. Even the passage of time isn’t going to change the basic rules. The nobility of the Royal family is the main pull and crucial to its longstanding power. That being said, the firm’s treatment of Diana has resulted in the eligible aristocratic women in their circle not wanting to get involved at all. Harry has tried dating an eligible string of aristocratic ladies and so did William when he split with Kate and courted Isabella Calthorpe. NO ONE was willing to be subjected to the firm. After all, they had equally prestigious families and some families even older and wealthier than the Royal family. Just too bad that no eligible aristocratic girl wants to get with Harry……and that most of the other women in other noble European houses are basically his cousins descended from Queen Victoria!!! Poor Harry….
Ive watched Suits a couple of times and found it poorly written and cheaply made. I’m surprised it’s still on. Her role seemed to be a bit part not a main character. I dont see an issue with her race its more that she’s a HW actress. Not sure they are all that serious. Its more the media making it out to be more than it is.
Yes. The media seems to always be a problem.
She’s become more central to the show since her character is the love interest of one of the leads. If she were written out, it would have a significant effect on the younger male lead’s character.
Yeah no big deal.., Harry only sent out a statement through KP confirming she was his girlfriend which has never happened before by anyone in the Royal Family.
As for Meghan’s role on Suits, she is one of the female leads along with Gina Torres, who has now left the show. The focus does tend to be on Gabriel Macht and Patrick J Adams, but Meghan’s character has been important from the beginning as the love interest for Patrick’s character. That is not to say they can’t write her off because they just did that with Gina’s character.
Didn’t PEOPLE also tell us that Hiddles was about to propose, that Swiftie really thought he was The One and wanted to have babies with him . . . blah blah blah?
I say, I’ll believe it when Clarence House tells us.
I still say she’s too good for him. Too smart, too educated, too worldly.
But I so want it to happen. She would up his intellectual game considerably. Not sure how he would feel about that, but it would be good for him and his ossified family.
I don’t think bring mixed race, American, older and divorced is the deal breaker. I do think she would have to lower her social media profile considerably and that might be giving everyone pause.
I agree with you! I do think she is more educated, experienced, etc. and HE is the one that’s really lucky if she gives up her career and freedom to be a part of his restrictive, fish bowl life. But at the same time, I’m excited! He seems like a good guy and she’d be just the spunky, sassy, cute, sexy girl to rock his world. I’m also excited that Harry is marrying an American actress and not an aristo.
I don’t think her race is a disadvantage. So what that she is mixed with black? She looks more Caucasian, and if anything, this would be a PR win for the Royal family for looking more accepting if Harry ends up married to her.
The disadvantage is that she is a D-list celebrity divorcee who seems super thirsty to marry into the Royal family. I imagine she’d love to marry Harry and become a princess, maybe to the point where she’d be willing to give up her acting career to move to London just to be a professional Waity in order to get the ring. My gut feeling tells me this relationship will not work, or if it does, it will end in divorce. She may enjoy being a Princess at first, but she’s doesn’t seem like Kate. She will rebel once she figures out that she is trapped in a gilded cage.
Agreed. She’s not a great actress so roles might be limited, so how to leverage a future for herself? I don’t think being of mixed race or divorced or American are issues, more a lack of discretion and thirsty. She’d suffocate in the restrictive nature of the BRF. Also, she is far brighter than Harry and that would bore her after a while.
She kind of looks like that Octomom character.
Eww, I just heard Markle’s sister is to appear on Entertainment Tonight…. hurry Harry, run from this farce and find someone decent… you can do it!
Why does her *sister* appearing on ET make *Meghan* indecent? Aren’t she and her sister two different people? One of whom is not even dating Harry?
Or have I missed something?
You mean the half-sister who is a failed actress, 16 years older, basically doesn’t know her, and is trading on her name to make a quick buck? No where near as bad as what Uncle Gary has revealed through the years.
Just want to pipe in on the mixed thing…. I’m also mixed and although I don’t agree with how the post was written I can understand what the commenter was trying to say.
Being mixed put me in a weird grey area where i wasn’t white enough for some ppl and wasn’t brown enough for other ppl. I heard racist remarks from both groups (white and non-white) because they ( seemingly ) forgot about the other side of my family. So in light of my weird life experiences in the grey zone, I can understand why it irks some other mixed ppl that Meghan isnt described as mixed…. It’s like leaving out key parts of her life too. I felt similarly about Obama. The media spent so much time patting themselves on the back for their first black president, but I would think he gained some advantages from being mixed. Now I’m tempted to ramble about shadism, but I’ll stop there 🙂
I don’t mean just to sound preachy, but just wanted to point out that mixed ppl can have different experiences from those who aren’t.
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She’s way too high profile in her own right for this family, and she looks way more mature than Harry, and that’s setting aside the American, divorced, sex scenes onscreen, and mid-thirties issues. The Windsors don’t like women used to having the spotlight for any other reasons outside being married to one of them. To me, Harry looks almost goofy next to her sophistication, maturity, and polish. If he weren’t Harry Windsor, I would say that Markle even seems . . . out of his league. It’s only the cachet of Harry’s social position and wealth that evens that out. But if you set those attributes aside, he seems more suited to one of those twenty-something posh blondes he used to favor, and she looks more suited (you should pardon the expression) to a mature CEO in his mid-forties who has made his own fortune and can hold his own with her. I dunno – that’s how it looks to me.
lovely pair. <3
Indeed she is a bit full of herself. I don’t know why but I watched a few of her interviews on Youtube. She always brings up that she has degrees in theater and international relations. Not that many schools have true international relations programs and I did not ever hear io Northwestern having one (that’s where she went). So I looked it up and no, they don’t. They have an international studies program but that is NOT the same as IR. The Northwestern international studies program is akin to global social studies whereas IR is game theory and theories about the behavior of state actors. Very different in terms of content and rigor.
Can we see some pictures of them together