Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the illustration of extreme modernity
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry met in 2016, married in 2018, and had a first child, Archie, in 2019. In just a few years, they brought a breath of modernity to the royal family, of whom they even decided to emancipate itself from 2020.
It was in the summer of 2016 that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry met in London. A few months later, Buckingham formalized their relationship, and in November 2017, the couple announced their engagement, and their husband in May 2018, before welcoming a first child, named Archie, a year later.
Decryption of a modern and progressive princely couple, which intends to emancipate itself from protocol and tradition.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, an unusual story
A priori, they seem to bring together more differences than similarities: Meghan Markle, 38, is American, actress, mixed race, and divorced, after having been married for seven years to American producer Trevor Engelson. Prince Harry, 35, is 100% British, from the royal family, ex-serviceman, and although he was a rebel, he ended up entering the ranks, following British royal protocol.
Indeed, if it was long imagined that he would marry Cressida Bonas or Chelsea Davis, his two well-known ex-companions of the British tabloids, Harry preferred a woman of a completely different kind, far from English traditions and the English aristocracy.
While Meghan Markle and Harry are different, they have a lot in common, despite coming from two distant backgrounds. Not born on the same continent, Meghan and Harry are both children who have known and endured their parents' divorce, feeling torn between the two. They would thus have found themselves on certain points, and this idea of wanting to give a more rosy childhood to their children to come.
The couple also found themselves in their vision of life and in their humanitarian commitments, since both have been involved in associations for years, long before they knew each other. From the fight against poverty, to gender equality and the place of women in politics, Prince Harry's wife is a true activist. Previously, she was even an ambassador to the UN, a mission she was forced to abandon by joining the royal family.
Meghan Markle, momentum of modernity for Buckingham
If the love story of Kate Middleton and Prince William allowed to breathe new life into the monarchy, making the queen's decisions less rigid (she who learned from the past, from the divorce of her children to the Lady Diana who heavily tarnished the image of English royalty), Harry requested an even greater effort from Elizabeth II, his grandmother.
Indeed, Kate Middleton was a commoner, but she was already British and of the Anglican religion. Meghan, she was American and, as the star of the Suits series, was evolving in a profession of image. Meghan Markle had to apply for English nationality, give up her profession as an actress, close her blog and her Instagram account, and move to London, to an apartment in Kensington Palace, not to mention her Anglican baptism, followed by her confirmation.
A radical transformation, therefore, as much for the royal family who accepts a consequent surge of modernity, as for Meghan Markle, who gives up entirely her life before. Friends had however advised him against consolidating his history with Prince Harry, because of the tabloids.
If the former actress has moderated her look, she has also "violated" the protocol on a few occasions, in particular by wearing dresses revealing her shoulders, sometimes tight and in velvet, at public events. Enough to change mentalities and impose your own style, classy but modern.
