Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Officially Engaged
After months of anticipation, Britain’s Prince Harry and former Suits star Meghan Markle announced their engagement.
Clarence
House released a statement on the morning of Nov. 27, stating that
Prince Harry had informed the Queen as well as other close family
members, and that the wedding would take place in Spring 2018. “The
couple will live in Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace,” it added.
The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince Harry to Ms. Meghan Markle. pic.twitter.com/zdaHR4mcY6— Clarence House (@ClarenceHouse) November 27, 2017
Prince Harry, 33, and Los Angeles-born Markle, 36, have been dating
for at least 15 months. The newly-engaged pair met for the first time in
London in July 2016, when they were introduced by a mutual friend. The
Prince and Markle made their first public appearance together at the
Invictus Games last September, where they held hands at a wheelchair
tennis event and spent time with Markle’s mother, Doria.
Markle, who is known for her role as paralegal Rachel Zane on the popular legal-drama series Suits, spoke openly about her relationship for the first time in a candid Vanity Fair interview
in early September. “We’re a couple,” she said of her relationship with
Harry, whom she referred to as her “boyfriend”. “We’re in love. I’m
sure there will be a time when we will have to come forward and present
ourselves and have stories to tell, but I hope what people will
understand is that this is our time. This is for us.”
As Prince Harry is in the line of succession to the throne (he’s
currently fifth in line, but will become sixth after Prince William and
Kate Middleton welcome their third baby in spring 2018), he must have
obtained the approval of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, to get
engaged and eventually wed Markle.
It’s not yet clear whether Harry and Markle will follow the example of Prince William and Kate Middleton by opting for a grand royal wedding ceremony
with hundreds of guests at Westminster Abbey, or will instead choose to
have a quieter, more intimate affair. Among the locations where the
nuptials could take place is St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle,
where Harry’s father, Prince Charles, wed Camilla Parker Bowles and
Harry’s uncle, Prince Edward, married Sophie, Countess of Wessex.
The wedding will be Markle’s second, as she married movie producer
Trevor Engelson in a barefoot ceremony at the Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios,
Jamaica, in 2011 — the same year Prince William and Kate Middleton tied
the knot.
Markle and Engelson divorced two years after their
marriage, citing “irreconcilable differences.”
Although it has
previously been forbidden for a royal to marry a divorcee (King Edward
VIII advocated the throne in late 1936 to marry divorced American Wallis Simpson), the family’s approach to divorce has softened over the years; Prince Charles has famously divorced and remarried.
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