America, please meet Prince Harry’s new love, Meghan Markle. She’s one of ours – and she’s awesome.
Though neither party has confirmed the relationship, British tabloids have gone bonkers since news of the romance broke last week. Here’s a primer to bring you up to speed.
Markle is a 35-year-old actress who co-stars on the USA Network legal drama, “Suits.” She was raised in Los Angeles and now lives in Toronto, where her show is filmed. Other facts that have caused shock waves in England (besides her being American and a few years older than Harry, 32): Markle is biracial and divorced. (She married a longtime boyfriend in 2011 and divorced two years later.)
But, again, to reiterate, she’s awesome.
Like her royal beau, Markle is a passionate humanitarian. She does frequent advocacy work for the United Nations and World Vision Canada, traveling internationally to promote gender equality and access to clean water. She designed a sleek, but accessible line of women’s wear for the Canadian department store Reitman’s. And three years ago she launched a smart, substantive lifestyle website, The Tig.
“The moment ‘Suits’ became successful and I realized people [especially young women] were listening to what I had to say, I knew I needed to be saying something of value,” she wrote in an essay on the site.
Clearly the world’s favorite redheaded prince has moved on from cream puff party girls. Here, here!
The Express first reported the relationship, which apparently began in May when Prince Harry traveled to Toronto to promote the Invictus Games Foundation, an organization he founded to host Olympics-style games for disabled veterans from around the world. Since their first meeting, the pair are said to have reunited in both Los Angeles and England, where Markle was introduced to Harry’s brother, Prince William and sister-in-law, Kate Middleton.
