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| Meghan Markle and Prince Harry |
She’s gorgeous, she’s talented, she’s philanthropic.
And now, LA-born and Toronto-based TV star Meghan Markle may have found her happily-ever-after with an actual prince.
Markle’s storybook romance with Britain’s Prince Harry, the most eligible bachelor in the world, has been simmering for at least two months on at least two continents.
The actress — who plays the sultry paralegal Rachel Zane in the USA
Network legal drama “Suits” — has repeatedly jetted to London, and
Kensington Palace, to see her beau.
The secretive duo are believed to have met in May at a charity event
in Toronto. Harry, 32, barraged the hesitant Markle, 35, with text
messages until she relented.
“They had gotten on when they first met, but it was just as friends,” a source told Us Magazine. “Before you knew it, they were texting every day.”
The two have been dating seriously for at least two months, according to reports.
Markle reportedly traveled to Britain in July to watch her pal Serena
Williams at Wimbledon — and then made trips again in September and last
month.
And as a possible sign that an engagement may be in the offing, according to People magazine, Harry introduced Markle to Prince William and Kate and even his dad, Prince Charles.
She was last in the UK last month, staying at the private Soho Farmhouse in the Oxfordshire countryside, the Mirror reported.
“He’s head over heels, and she feels the same,” one friend of Markle’s told the Daily Mail.
What could possibly go wrong with this fairy tale come to life?
Family trouble, that’s what — and, surprisingly, not from the royals.
News that Markle and the Ginger Prince have been dating has Markle’s
older half-sister, Samantha Grant, sharp-elbowing her way into the
spotlight.
Grant, 51, wheelchair-bound, suffering from multiple sclerosis and living in Florida, told the UK’s Mirror that her little sis is “shallow,” “narcissistic” and bent on “social climbing.”
She always wanted to be a princess and has a soft spot for redheads, Grant dished.
Grant went on to tell The Sun that “Meghan is narcissistic and selfish,” and to tell RadarOnline that she raised Markle for 12 years in California — and has nothing good to say about her.
Grant showed Radar a family album of their childhood photos to prove
her bona fides, then went on to snark that Markle — who travels the
world doing charitable works when not acting — is hardly the
humanitarian she claims to be. Or, at least for Markle, charity does not
begin at home.
“The royal family would be appalled by what she’s done to her own
family,” Grant told Radar. “The truth would kill her relationship with
Prince Harry,” the sneering sister claimed.
“He wouldn’t want to date her anymore because it puts her in a bad public light.”
The gossip site gave up none of Grant’s details, merely quoting the sister’s vague but ominous-sounding taunts.
“I certainly don’t think Harry or his family would want to associate with her afterwards,” Grant said.
Others in Markle’s family believe the raven-haired star has failed to
support her family either emotionally or financially, Radar said,
attributing that slight to “sources.”
This may be only the start of the media maelstrom for Markle, who is
about to learn that a royal romance can also be a royal pain. Paparazzi
from around the world — utterly thwarted, to date, in their efforts to
catch the couple together — are circling voraciously.
And haters on two continents have already begun, noisily, to emerge — mere days after news of their affair broke.
Markle is a divorcee; her marriage, to film producer Trevor Engelson
in 2011, ended less than two years later with the filing of an amicable
divorce.
The British press “have made it clear that her relationship with Harry is scandalous, for a number of reasons,” The Guardian tsk-tsked on Wednesday.
“She is divorced; she is older (Markle is 35, Harry 32); she’s played
raunchy scenes in the US TV series ‘Suits’ — and her mother is visibly
black, with dreadlocks,” the paper said.
“These details would be unremarkable — irrelevant, inappropriate, even,” the paper said — “were it any other celebrity romance.”
But while her own family has poisonously weighed in, it remains to be
seen what his side, the Windsors, will ultimately say. To date the
royal family has yet to comment.
“My cup runneth over,” Markle told her hometown paper, the Toronto Sun,
on Tuesday, in her first and only interview since news broke of the
romance. “And I’m the luckiest girl in the world,” she added, before
deftly shifting the topic to her fashion-and-lifestyle blog.
For now, Markle has remained press-shy, but that may change for the outspoken actress.
After all, “I’m a brash American,” she told the Toronto Sun this week.
“And if my name is going to be on something,” she added, “I’m going to have my say.”
She was still speaking of her blog — but could well have been
referring to her very personal, and now increasingly very public, fairy
tale.
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