In 2016, Meghan markle is 35 years old and has been trying to make a name for herself in Hollywood for almost 15 years. Failing to break into the cinema, it is on the small screen that the American actress is illustrated, in the series Suits of course, in which she played the role of Rachel Zane for 7 years, but not only. The one who was living in Toronto at the time also played in romantic TV films. Funny coincidence, his very last came out the year he met Prince Harry and it is called How to meet a soul mate in 10 lessons (Date’s Handbook)!
In this romantic comedy, Meghan Markle plays the role of Cass, a successful young businesswoman who is struggling in her love life. On the advice of her sister, she then decides to follow a dating guide and shares several dates with different boys to apply the recommendations of the book. Surprise: she ends up realizing that a man who loves her for who she is is what she wants (see slideshow). Admittedly this role was not going to win him an Oscar, but it has the merit of making rainy Sunday afternoons pass …
A few months after the broadcast of this TV movie, in the summer of 2016, Meghan Markle went to London for a few days in her capacity as a successful lifestyle blogger. She was then divorced from American producer Trevor Engelson and freshly separated from her Canadian boyfriend, chef Cory Vitiello. Through a friend, the actress agrees to go to an arranged date … She then meets Prince Harry and it is love at first sight. Their romance first blossoms in the greatest secrecy and the couple meet between England, Canada and Botswana. But in the fall of 2016, the idyll was revealed in the media.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle end up formalizing their relationship and announcing their engagement a year later in Kensington. The rest of the story, everyone – or almost – knows it: they married (with great fanfare in Windsor, in May 2018), had a first child (Archie, in May 2019) and lived happily (for a while) … But unlike TV movies, reality has been harsher for Meghan Markle. The media pressure, the rigidity of the protocol and the lack of support from the royal family got the better of the Sussexes, who planted everything in early 2020 to settle in California, where they now live with Archie and little Lilibet (born in June ).