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Meghan Markle
Markle in January 2013
Born	Rachel Meghan Markle (1981-08-04) August 4, 1981 (age 43) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Northwestern University
Occupation(s)	Actress, model
Years active	2002–2017
Known for	Humanitarian work
Spouse	Trevor Engelson ​ ​(m. 2011; div. 2013)​
Partner(s)	Prince Henry of Wales (2016–present; engaged)
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Rachel Meghan Markle (born August 4, 1981) is an American actress, model, and humanitarian. Since 2011, she has portrayed Rachel Zane on the legal drama series Suits. She is also known for her role as special agent Amy Jessup in the sci-fi thriller Fringe. She had previously worked as a freelance calligrapher.

Markle was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in theater and international studies in 2003.

Her engagement to Prince Harry of the British royal family was announced on November 27, 2017. Following her engagement, she plans to retire from acting and devote her time to humanitarian causes.

Early life

Rachel Meghan Markle was born on August 4, 1981, in Los Angeles. Describing her parents, she has said, "My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American ... I have come to embrace say who I am, to share where I'm from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident, mixed-race woman." Her mother, Doria Ragland, has a master's degree in social work from the University of Southern California, lives in View Park-Windsor Hills, and works as a psychotherapist and yoga instructor. Her father, Thomas W. Markle, who lives in Mexico, is an Emmy Award-winning lighting director whose profession resulted in his young daughter often visiting the set of Married... with Children. Markle is of Dutch, English, Irish, and German descent through her father.

Markle grew up in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. From age five, she was educated at private schools; first at Hollywood Little Red Schoolhouse and later at Immaculate Heart High School, an all-girl, private Catholic school in Los Angeles. She graduated in 2003 from Northwestern University, near Chicago, where she earned a bachelor's degree in theater and international studies; coursework included an internship at the US embassy in Buenos Aires.

Acting career

Markle worked as a freelance calligrapher to support herself between early acting jobs. Her first appearance on screen was in the background of an episode of the daytime soap opera General Hospital. Early in her career, Markle had small guest roles on the television shows Century City (2004), The War at Home (2006), and CSI: NY (2006). She also took on several contract acting and modeling jobs that included a stint as a "briefcase girl" on the US game show Deal or No Deal. She appeared in Fox's series Fringe as Junior Agent Amy Jessup in the first two episodes of its second season. Markle had some difficulty getting roles early in her career. In 2015, she wrote: "I wasn't black enough for the black roles and I wasn't white enough for the white ones, leaving me somewhere in the middle as the ethnic chameleon who couldn't book a job."

Since July 2011, she has played Rachel Zane on the USA Network show Suits, which is filmed in Toronto, Ontario. The character began as a paralegal who eventually became an attorney. She completed work on that series' seventh season in late 2017. Markle has appeared in two 2010 films, Get Him to the Greek and Remember Me, and one 2011 film, Horrible Bosses. She has also appeared in episodes of Cuts, Love, Inc., 90210, Knight Rider, Without a Trace, The League, and Castle.

During a BBC interview, Markle said that she would not return to Suits and that after she marries, she will transition out of her work as an actress.

Markle was founder and editor-in-chief of lifestyle website The Tig, which closed in April 2017. In November 2016, Markle and Canadian clothing company Reitmans released a line of women's fashion workwear.

Relationship with Prince Harry

Early relationship

Markle was in a relationship with actor and producer Trevor Engelson from 2004 until 2011. They married in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, on September 10, 2011, and divorced in August 2013. Since June 2016, she has been in a relationship with British royal Prince Harry, who is fifth in line to the throne. Prince Harry and Markle met on a blind date that a mutual friend set up. The press reported on the relationship in October 2016.

On November 8, 2016, the British royal family's communications secretary released an official statement that addressed the "wave of abuse and harassment" directed toward Markle. The statement spoke to the sexism, racism and defamatory stories directed at Markle, including an unspecified "smear on the front page of a national newspaper". It urged the press to "pause and reflect" before driving these storylines.

During a September 2017 interview with Vanity Fair, Markle spoke in public for the first time about her love for Prince Harry, saying, "We're two people who are really happy and in love. We were very quietly dating for about six months before it became news, and I was working during that whole time, and the only thing that changed was people's perception." Later that month, they made their first public appearances together at an official royal engagement—the wheelchair tennis event, and the closing ceremony of the Invictus Games in Toronto.

Markle maintained an apartment in Toronto because Suits was filmed there but moved out in late November 2017 after work on the seventh season had been completed.

Engagement

On November 27, 2017, it was announced that Markle and Prince Harry were engaged. By then, she had met Harry's family and had met Queen Elizabeth II several times. The couple will live together at Nottingham Cottage in London, on the grounds of Kensington Palace, after the wedding in May 2018. The engagement ring given by Harry to Markle consists of three diamonds, two of which were taken from the jewellery collection of the Prince's mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

The engagement announcement prompted much comment about the possible social significance (or insignificance) of Markle becoming a proudly mixed-race royal.

Though she attended Catholic school as a child, Markle identified as a Protestant prior to her engagement to Prince Harry. Following her engagement, it was announced that she would be baptised and confirmed into the Church of England before the wedding. She will also become a British citizen. Despite Markle's status as an American divorcee, neither the Crown nor the Church of England have raised objections to the marriage, unlike in 1936 when Edward VIII was forced to abdicate the throne to marry the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson; thus, Prince Harry will remain in the line of succession.

Ancestry

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Markle is a descendant of Captain Christopher Hussey (d.1686), who was appointed in 1679 by King Charles II to govern the Royal Province of Hampton, New Hampshire. He was a founding father of Nantucket and an ancestor of Richard Nixon.

In October and November 2017, a number of media sources published a royal descent for Markle through Christopher Hussey. These originated with the 1995 research of Roy Leggitt, who speculated that Captain Hussey might be descended from John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford, but admitted the link was weak: "This genealogy assumes that it is the same John who married Marie Wood, but there is no concrete evidence that he is the same man." Baron Hussey, who was beheaded in 1537 at the order of King Henry VIII, was a descendant of King John. Other genealogists doubt this connection, including Paul C. Reed, who researched baptismal records in Surrey and wills in Lincolnshire, finding no evidence in 1999 that Captain Christopher Hussey's father—John, of Dorking, Surrey—was a John Hussey of Lincolnshire, descended from Baron Hussey. Those who do see a connection, such as the Hussey family of Hawaii and Michael Reed, rely on the certain connection between the "Husseys of Sleaford and their double marriages to the Stuydols of Norbury (near Dorking)" as evidence that the families were linked.

Markle's alleged descent from the Bowes family, which would make her a distant cousin of Prince Harry, also depends on the Hussey connection. If it is correct, Meghan and Harry's most recent common ancestors are Elizabeth Bowes (1505–c.1572) and her husband, Richard Bowes, son of Sir Ralph Bowes of Streatlam Castle and High Sheriff of County Durham—ancestors of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (née Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon).

According to Reed's research, Lord Hussey's coat-of-arms is evident in the chair of Capt. Christopher Hussey. If true, this may indicate a descent from a Hussey, but not necessarily the line claimed. For example, Meghan Markle could be descended from Sir William Hussey who was granted the coat of arms, by way of Lord Hussey's brother. Sir William is the father of Lord Hussey.

Markle's maternal great-great-great-grandfather was a slave on Georgia plantations before being emancipated with the abolition of slavery in 1865.

• Markle's ancestor, Lord Hussey
• Markle's great-great-great-grandmother, New Hampshire landowner, Mary Hussey Smith

Humanitarian work

Markles states that, as a child, she objected to a Procter & Gamble television commercial for a dish soap, which featured the line "Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans", which she believed to be sexist and that she took action by writing letters to lawyer Gloria Allred (who often advocates for women's issues) and the then-First Lady Hillary Clinton. Months later the offending line was changed to "People all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans."

In 2016, Markle became a global ambassador for World Vision Canada, traveling to Rwanda for the Clean Water Campaign, the agency's campaign to provide safe, clean drinking water. She has also worked with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women as an Advocate. Markle was a counsellor for international charity One Young World, speaking at the 2014 annual summit in Dublin on the topics of gender equality and modern-day slavery. She also attended the 2016 One Young World summit in Ottawa.

Filmography

Television

Film

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