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    Cute Prince Harry is engaged to Meghan Markle, Kensington Palace says

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    Prince Harry and Markle became engaged in London earlier this month, Kensington Palace announced Monday on Twitter. The two will get married in the spring.

    The announcement came from the office of Harry's father, Prince Charles.

    Prince William and his wife Kate say they are excited for the couple. They say "it has been wonderful getting to know Meghan and to see how happy she and Harry are together."

    The announcement means another grand royal wedding is in the offing -- the first since William and and Kate married in 2011.



    Markle, best known for her role as an ambitious paralegal in the hit U.S. legal drama "Suits," surprised many when she shared her feelings for Harry in a September cover story for Vanity Fair. Asked about the media frenzy surrounding their courtship, the 36-year-old said: "At the end of the day I think it's really simple ... we're two people who are really happy and in love."

    Describing Harry as her "boyfriend," Markle said that while she expected that she and Harry would have to "come forward" about their relationship at some point, the two were just a couple enjoying time spent with each other.

    "Personally, I love a great love story," she said.

    Harry -- once known for his "bad boy" antics, including being photographed playing strip billiards in Las Vegas -- has largely won over the British public with his winning smile, his military career and his devotion to charities aimed at helping disabled veterans and other causes.

    The 33-year-old prince recently won praise with his work campaigning for more openness about mental health issues. Speaking candidly about his personal struggle to cope with the loss of his mother, Princess Diana, when he was only 12, he encouraged others to talk about their own problems rather than keeping them bottled up inside.

    Markle's Vanity Fair interview broke new ground. It is unusual for a royal love interest to speak so publicly -- and candidly -- before becoming engaged. Harry's past reported girlfriends all shied away from the media limelight, and his sister-in-law, formerly known as Kate Middleton, stayed silent until she and Prince William gave a formal televised interview at Buckingham Palace after their engagement became public.

    But then, unlike some other "commoners" romantically linked to Britain's royals, Markle is no stranger to media exposure and the world of show business.

    The actress's most successful role is the feisty Rachel Zane in the TV legal show "Suits," now in its seventh season. Her career has included small parts on TV series including "Fringe," "CSI: Miami," "Knight Rider" and "Castle," as well as movies such as "Horrible Bosses." Outside of acting, Markle founded a lifestyle blog called TheTig.com (which closed down in April without explanation), and has lent her celebrity status to humanitarian causes.

    She has campaigned with the United Nations on gender equality, written in Time magazine about girls' education and the stigma surrounding menstruation, and has traveled to Rwanda as global ambassador for the charity World Vision Canada. She has described how her mother took her to the slums of Jamaica to witness poverty first-hand, saying experiences like that shaped her social consciousness and charity work.

    To some degree that mirrors the experience of Harry, who was also inspired by his mother's humanitarian work and embraced the types of charities Diana favored in the final years of her life before her 1997 death in a Paris car crash.

    Harry and Markle held hands for their first official appearance together in September in Toronto at the Invictus Games, a sporting event for wounded service personnel that Harry spearheaded.

    Both were dressed casually in jeans, smiling and chatting as they arrived for a tennis match. Several days later, Harry was photographed kissing Markle on the cheek as he joined the actress and her mother in a luxury box to watch the event's closing ceremony.

    Markle said she met Harry through friends in London in July 2016, and that they had been dating quietly for several months before the romance hit the headlines.

    The media attention then became so intense that Harry took the unusual step of officially confirming the romance in order to warn the media off. In a strongly worded statement issued through the palace, the prince pleaded for reporters to stop intruding on his girlfriend's privacy. He condemned "outright sexism and racism" in some online comments, and said some articles with "racial undertones" had crossed the line.

    Some tabloids had alluded to Markle's mixed-race heritage, pointing out she has an African-American mother and a white father.

    Markle herself has spoken out about coming to terms with being biracial -- both growing up, and in her Hollywood career.

    In a March interview with Allure magazine, she said studying race at college was "the first time I could put a name to feeling too light in the black community and too mixed in the white community.

    "For castings, I was labeled `ethnically ambiguous'," she said.

    Markle was born Aug. 4, 1981, to a clinical therapist mother and television lighting director father. She grew up in Los Angeles, and now lives in Toronto.

    She studied at a girls' Roman Catholic high school before attending Northwestern University in Illinois, where she studied theater and international relations.

    Markle married film producer Trevor Engelson in 2011, but the pair divorced two years later.

    It wouldn't be first time that a British royal has married an American -- or a divorcee. In 1936, Edward VIII famously abdicated after he was forced to choose between the monarchy and his relationship with twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson.

    In her Vanity Fair interview, Markle made clear the world's attention on her romance did not faze her.

    "I'm still the same person that I am, and I've never defined myself by my relationship," she said. "The people who are close to me anchor me in knowing who I am. The rest is noise."

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    should get a public holiday out of this so

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    Quote Originally Posted by redred View Post
    should get a public holiday out of this so

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    Quote Originally Posted by redred View Post
    should get a public holiday out of this so
    not a chance

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    She's a fucking rocket. 10/10 in Suits in my books. Good for Harry

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    Great! Now they can finally have sex

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    Quote Originally Posted by Godfather View Post
    She's a fucking rocket. 10/10 in Suits in my books. Good for Harry
    I'd say the over/under is 5 years

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    Update

    Quote Originally Posted by redred View Post
    should get a public holiday out of this so
    We are NOT getting a bank holiday for Harry and Meghan’s wedding
    Ashitha Nagesh for Metro.co.uk




    Sorry to disappoint you everyone – we’re not getting a bank holiday for Harry and Meghan’s wedding after all.

    Prince Harry announced his engagement to Meghan Markle this morning, and the couple later showed off her (massive) ring in the Sunken Gardens at Kensington Palace.

    They’re apparently planning to get married sometime next spring, although the exact date has yet to be confirmed.

    Since the announcement, speculation was rife that we might get a bank holiday for the wedding – as we did when Kate and Wills got married in 2011.

    However, Downing Street has just confirmed that that will not be the case. Boo.

    Asked by reporters outside Kensington Palace how he proposed, Harry coyly replied that ‘that will come later’ – although Meghan did say it was romantic.

    Responding to a question about when he knew she was the one, the prince said it was ‘the very first time we met’. Aw.



    Confirming the engagement this morning, Clarence House said that Harry had sought permission from the Queen after he proposed to Meghan earlier this month.

    He also asked his soon-to-be in-laws Tom Markle and Doria Ragland for permission before proposing to their daughter.

    In a statement, Markle’s parents wished the couple ‘a lifetime of happiness’, adding: ‘We are incredibly happy for Meghan and Harry. Our daughter has always been a kind and loving person. To see her union with Harry, who shares the same qualities, is a source of great joy for us as parents.’

    Prince Charles, who was on official engagements in Poundbury in Dorchester, told reporters that the news was ‘very good’.

    ‘Thrilled for them both,’ he said. ‘They’ll be very happy indeed.’

    The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge also expressed their joy at the news: ‘We are very excited for Harry and Meghan. It has been wonderful getting to know Meghan and to see how happy she and Harry are together.’

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teh One Who Knocks View Post
    I'd say the over/under is 5 years
    Not a whole lot of faith in these two, eh?


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    I don't think she's especially attractive..?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DemonGeminiX View Post
    Not a whole lot of faith in these two, eh?
    She's a Hollywood celeb, he's royalty, I don't see it lasting.

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    She looks a little better there.. I bet she gets a terrible 5 o'clock shadow though..

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    I remember Harry dating a waitress here during the Stampede while he had a longtime girlfriend.

    He was in town for a couple of days and picked her up at a prominent nightspot called Cowboys. The boy had no shame

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