Meghan Markle was a Queen before she even met a prince, let alone became engaged to one.
She’s been kicking-ass her whole life, and it got her to the moment in time when she met a dude named Harry. She’s girl goals in one glowing package.
This is the actor who had to crawl out of the boot of her car to get to auditions (her car doors were jammed and she didn’t have the money to get them fixed). The girl whose life and career has been marred by discrimination because she’s biracial, even though she’s an extremely proud woman of colour. The young woman whose marriage to producer Troy Engelson deteriorated.
On Mamamia Out Loud we discuss why Meghan Markle Is The Role Model Young Women Need:
Given those factors, you can safely say that Markle’s life has been vastly different to Harry’s.
And in terms of royal brides, Markle once again stands out. Kate Middleton attended the same university as Prince William. She ran in similar aristocratic circles to him. She’s the epitome of the “English Rose“. Her late mother-in-law, Diana Spencer, and even Camilla parker-Bowles, have similar backgrounds.
Markle hasn’t had any of that. She’s divorced. Her mother is African-American. Those used to be factors that would prohibit a member of the House of Windsor from marrying someone.
Markle is an active humanitarian who uses her platform to raise awareness:
Markle already had the loves of her life before she met Harry:
Markle has a highly-accomplished girl squad:
Markle’s fairytale deserves a happily ever after with Prince Harry. But like every amazing Queen, she doesn’t need a knight in shining armour.
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Top Comments
Geez, drawing some really long bows here. Meghan is someone who once upon a time, drove a crappy car, is biracial and is divorced. Not really unique, and clearly it hardly impeded her success - let's not make it out to that she grew up on Struggle Street. Kate Middleton hardly "ran in similar aristocratic circles" to the royals ahead of meeting William. She was upper middle class (daughter of a air hostess and air dispatcher), and had some distant connections to the aristocracy, but hardly was on a par with royalty. Indeed, the two have much in common in that both came from commoner backgrounds, and do not fit the stereotype "royal bride" stereotype.
That tweet's a bit uninformed. There are a number of African royal families, so Meghan Markle's not going to be the first black royal. In the British royal family, yes, but not in the world. There are royal families outside of the one in the UK.
To be honest, I'm a bit mixed about getting too "Yassss, Qween" about it. Yes it's cool that she's had her own career and has been involved in humanitarian issues, but she now has to give up her acting and control over her public image to become a royal. That rankles a bit more for me than with the former Kate Middleton, as she was basically just working in a shop while waiting for William to propose, not working at a career she was passionate about.
Royalty means conforming to a certain standard. It means ditching a certain style and dressing the way the public approves of because you can't have the perception of wasting money on clothes. It means saying the right things in the right way. And, honestly, if royals were just acting like everyday people, what's the point of having them at all?