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 which 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 acting profession, 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.
Married and parents of a little Archie
On Saturday May 19, 2018, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry get married in Windsor, at Saint George's Chapel, and officially become Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Surrounded by their family and their handpicked friends, still made up of many celebrities with regard to their respective backgrounds (Victoria and David Beckham, Elton John, the group of actors from the Suits series who are the former "colleagues of Meghan and many others), they will celebrate their union, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II.
But very quickly, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry decide to do things as they see fit. When the former actress becomes pregnant, the couple refuses to decline the confidences too much. When he was born in May 2019, his face was not immediately presented to the press. For that, it will be necessary to wait for their official trip in the South of Africa in the following September. We also learn that the queen was not present during the baptism of little Archie.
A tight-knit couple in the face of media pressure
2019 was a pivotal and difficult year for the princely couple. With her official arrival in the Windsor, her first missions as a new member of the royal family, and her pregnancy, Meghan Markle has been very scrutinized, and criticized.
Rumors of her being authoritarian have multiplied in the face of serial resignations from her team, including her personal assistant. Just as she was accused of taking Prince Harry away from his older brother, Prince William. The two princely couples only appeared together at official events.
A tight-knit couple in the face of media pressure
2019 was a pivotal and difficult year for the princely couple. With her official arrival in the Windsor, her first missions as a new member of the royal family, and her pregnancy, Meghan Markle has been very scrutinized, and criticized.
Rumors of her being authoritarian have multiplied in the face of serial resignations from her team, including her personal assistant. Just as she was accused of taking Prince Harry away from his older brother, Prince William. The two princely couples only appeared together at official events.
Her commitments and origins also make her the target of violent sexist and racist attacks, to the point of disabling the Buckingham Palace teams.
Meghan Markle also suffered from the malice of her father, Thomas Markle, who multiplied the scandals by complaining to the tabloids about the distance taken by his daughter, and disclosing a private correspondence between them.
In the fall of 2019, the princely couple decided not to let it go. Prince Harry thus pursued two media which had revealed and cut the content of this letter, showing Meghan Markle in a bad light.
“My biggest fear is seeing history repeating itself. I've seen what happens when someone I love is sold to the point of no longer being treated or seen as a real person,” he said. even said in a statement. I lost my mother and now I see my wife becoming a victim of the same powerful forces. "
Thunderclap on January 8, 2020, when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced they wanted to "step down from their roles as prominent members of the royal family", without having previously informed the Queen.
The couple also say they want to be financially independent, and share their time between the United Kingdom and North America, while ensuring "continue to fully support his majesty". Unheard of in the history of the British crown, which was probably not prepared for it.
In a concise statement, the Queen's team said: "We understand their desire for a different approach, but these are complex issues, which we will take the time to work on." Or how to revolutionize Buckingham for good.
