Why Meghan Markle's first marriage failed
The biography of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle "Finding Freedom" ("Harry and Meghan, free", available August 13 in France at Seuil editions) made the headlines of the press on this day of international release. In the book is among others mentioned the first marriage of the Duchess of Sussex with the American producer Trevor Engelson. The couple were united in September 2011 in Jamaica after seven years of relationship, a story that did not last since the actress had filed for divorce after a few months. This was delivered in 2013.
According to the extract viewed by the "Daily Mail", someone close to Meghan Markle talks about the reasons for this failure to authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand. The actress was 23 years old when she met Trevor Engelson, five years her senior, and with whom she fell "madly in love". In Hollywood, he had a shy career but all in all effective. In 2010, he produced “Remember Me”, in which Robert Pattinson and Pierce Brosnan were headlining. A film in which Meghan had also won a short appearance, playing a waitress in a bar.
"She felt like he liked her to be dependent on him"
According to those close to the Duchess, the relationship between Meghan and Trevor deteriorated shortly after their marriage. At the time, the career of the actress finally took off with the success of the series "Suits". The couple were forced to adjust to a long-distance relationship, with Trevor remaining in Los Angeles, and Meghan working in Toronto. But it's not the kilometers that have been right in their history - even if that was a factor. It was the supposedly toxic hold of the producer, who didn't appreciate his wife's growing success. “When they were together, Meghan wondered to her closest friends why Trevor wasn't showing more understanding to support her acting career. She felt like he liked her to be dependent on him. It was the dynamic in their relationship, Trevor was the one dominating. He was used to supporting themselves financially, to being the one Meghan needed to meet people in the film industry, ”the friend of the main person concerned told the authors. When Meghan's career took off thanks to “Suits”, the couple dynamic, “power”, had “shifted”, which Trevor Engelson “didn't like”.
In February 2013, Trevor went to the Oscars alone. Disappointed that he hadn't asked her to join him, Meghan confronted him about it. The latter reportedly replied that he had received "only one invitation". A pretext, imagined the actress, who told herself that her husband did not want to share "the light" and that he especially wanted to relegate it to the background, in the shade.
Six months later, the divorce papers were signed for "irreconcilable disputes". Soon after, in 2014, Meghan Markle met Canadian chef Cory Vitiello in Toronto. A story that lasted two years and ended shortly before his meeting with Prince Harry.
