Prince Harry’s relationship with Suits actress Meghan Markle has many people pining for another royal wedding, but zero bells will be ringing for the couple until Meghan impresses his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II — and gets it in writing. More
Ever since the news first broke in October that Prince Harry was reportedly dating an American television actress, the world (or, you know, a subset of the world) has been waiting with extreme impatience for visual confirmation that the two—Harry and Meghan Markle—were in fact together. More
Meghan Markle, who, as we are all well aware, is currently dating Prince Harry, recently wrapped the sixth season of her show, Suits—and Markle, we now know, spent some of that time on set (perhaps with a brief break for googling “kensington palace + nearby coffeeshops”) writing an essay, which she contributed to Elle UK, that explores her feelings about the complicated dynamic between her acting career and her charity work. (“I’m sitting in my trailer with my mom in Toronto, Canada,” it begins.)
She writes that, initially, she never would have imagined she’d one day be starring on a popular show; “[My mom and I] never would have dreamed that this would be my reality,” she says. She goes on to describe a notable moment, in Rwanda, where she was doing work at a refugee camp, there as an “advocate for UN Women,” and she got an e-mail from her managers about the BAFTA Awards (“I had never been and had always romanticized it”). She was going to be flown in for the ceremony, and outfitted…