Meghan Markle: All About the Duchess of Sussex

Hollywood to Buckingham Palace – US actress Meghan Markle made the journey to marry Prince Harry. All the facts about Duchess Meghan.

London – a duchess with a heart. Rachel Meghan Markle, or Duchess Meghan, is the Duchess of Sussex. As a former American actress, she was already known before her wedding to Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex – among other things, she played the role of Rachel Zane in the series “Suits” for seven years.

Meghan Markle was the first “woman of color” in the British royal family to encounter difficulties again and again. There was more and more headlines about Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan – who, as a consequence, had left the royal family.

British royals: who is Meghan Markle?

Rachel Meghan Markle, known as Duchess Megan, was born on August 4th, 1981 in Los Angeles, United States. Meghan grew up with two older half-siblings, her American father, Thomas Markle, and her African-American mother, Doria Joyce Ragland. Meghan got to know life on the film set very early on – as a child, she often accompanied her father, who worked as a light director. During her school days, the American only attended private schools until she started her career as an actress.

Meghan Markle then moved from Hollywood to Buckingham Palace in London. The former American actress married Prince Harry on May 19, 2018 and has also been a member of the British royal family since then. In addition to her activities as Duchess of Sussex, she always attached great importance to humanitarian commitment. Among other things, Meghan was an ambassador for the international charity One Young World, where she spoke out for gender equality, for example.

Meghan Markle: studying and working as an actress

Meghan Markle studied Theater Studies and International Relations at Northwestern University in the United States after graduating from high school. Meghan Markle is not completely following in her father’s footsteps. However, she stayed in the same field – and ultimately became known as an actress. The American first appeared in 2002 in the soap opera “General Hospital” on television. Then Duchess Meghan played in several series such as “90210” or in “Fringe – border cases of the FBI”.

After all, Meghan Markle played in the famous law series “Suits” from 2011 to 2018. There the Duchess played a paralegal named Rachel Zane. In November 2017, Meghan Markle announced that she was leaving her acting role due to her engagement to Prince Harry.

Duchess Meghan marries Prince Harry and becomes the mother of Archie and Lilibet

Secret love – Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kept their love a secret for almost a year. As part of a “blind date” in 2016, the US actress met the Prince of Sussex. Less than a year later, the two officially announced their engagement in November 2017. On May 19, 2018, the two married in St. George’s Chapel in Windsor, whereupon the American became Duchess Meghan. She is the first “woman of color” in the British royal family.

One year after they tied the knot, the first son of Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born in May 2019. Despite being part of the British royal family, Archie was purposely not given a nobility title by Meghan and Harry. This is available to the children of the monarch, the children of the monarch’s sons and the children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales, according to the British Government’s legal gazettes. Archie is after his grandfather Prince Charles, his uncle Prince William, his children George, Charlotte and Louis and his father in seventh place in the line of succession. Even so, the parents decided that Archie shouldn’t become a prince.

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Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor is the second child of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. She was born in California, United States of America in June 2021. The daughter’s name caused trouble in the royal family.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry: Resignation from the Royal Family

In the documentary “Harry and Meghan – an African journey”, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan gave an open insight into their everyday lives in 2019. It was originally planned that the two would be accompanied by a camera on a charity tour through Africa. After emotional scenes with the children on site, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan reported the unexpected.

In a subsequent interview, they announce how much pressure and stress weighed on them – including from the press. This open conversation caused a shock to the royal family – similar to an interview with Princess Diana in 1995. In a television appearance, she also spoke of the enormous pressure and her postnatal depression. Harry stated in the documentary that he would do everything possible to protect his family so that the same thing does not happen to them as his mother did.

After the documentary was released, Prince Harry, Duchess Meghan and Baby Archie took a long break in Canada from November 2019. After this unusual step, the unexpected news finally followed on January 8th: Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan announced that they would resign as senior royals. They also announced that they want to be financially independent and that they will split their time between the UK and North America.

Prince Harry and Meghan: “Mexit” and the interview with Oprah Winfrey

Headline after headline followed. After the announcement that Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan would like to leave the British royal family, Prince Harry held several crisis talks with Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Prince William. They agreed that Harry and Meghan will no longer represent the Queen. They kept their titles of nobility, but no longer used them. The official exit finally occurred on April 1st, 2020. Prince Harry and Herzgin Meghan moved from Canada to the United States of America at the end of March 2020. There, the American Meghan gave birth to her daughter, Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, the following year.

At the beginning of March 2021, there was another interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, which also caused shocks. In an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey, they gave more information about the background of the “Megxit”. They spoke again of the enormous pressure and racism against Duchess Meghan in the British royal family. (Yasemin Kamisli)