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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have today announced they are engaged after the Queen gave her grandson permission to marry the star just a week after she celebrated her own 70th wedding anniversary.
The couple, who revealed they were an item a year ago after a six-month secret relationship, got engaged earlier this month in London and will marry in spring 2018, Kensington Palace said.
Harry, 33, and his American fiancee, 36, have not said where they will hold the ceremony but if they choose the UK most senior royals marry at Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral or the chapel at Windsor Castle.
They have chosen to state they are getting married just before they spend their first proper Christmas together.
Meghan, who is divorced, could become a princess or alternatively be given the title Duchess of Sussex when she marries the fifth in line to the throne and joins the royal family.
But they are likely to wait until Prince William and Kate have their third child, which is due in April.
Bookmakers refused to take any more bets on the couple getting engaged last week as Meghan landed in London and started moving her belongings and two dogs to the UK.
Social media went into meltdown but they have had to wait until today to hear that the fifth-in-line to the throne has proposed to his actress girlfriend.
The actress and model did not attend the Queen and Prince Philip's 70th wedding anniversary celebrations together - but she has met Her Majesty for tea.
And royal protocol dictates that Harry will have had to ask his grandmother to let him marry.
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Meghan and Harry became an item officially almost exactly 12 months ago, and the star couldn't hide her smiles as the news emerged in November last year
The Suits star is set to move to London having quit the show and has already left her apartment in Toronto.
She is shipping her belongings to the UK including her beloved dogs - a beagle named Guy and a labrador-shepherd named Bogart.
Initially at least, the newly-engaged couple are likely to move in together at Kensington Palace, where Prince William, Kate, Prince George and Princess Charlotte will be their neighbours.
The announcement marks an extraordinary 12 months since the couple said they were in love after a whirlwind romance where the prince quickly became 'besotted', royal sources said.
The 36-year-old actress, who is best known for her role as Rachel Zane in US legal drama Suits, is believed to have charmed the Royal when he visited Toronto in the summer of 2016.
They managed to keep their relationship secret from the world - but it later emerged she had met William and Kate and he had met her family in California.
Their cover was blown when keen observers spotted pictures of them wearing matching bracelets. The Prince followed the actress on Instagram using a pseudonym.
She also went to Wimbledon and Buckingham Palace this year coinciding with a period when Harry was in London but were never seen together.
As news of their love affair broke on Halloween last year, Harry was forced to abandon a secret trip to visit his actress girlfriend in Canada.
Meghan then flew to London two weeks later during a gap in her filming schedule and was photographed by MailOnline buying food on Kensington High Street, Princess Diana's favourite shopping street.
Days later, in an extraordinary statement on his love life, Harry said he is 'worried about Miss Markle's safety' since rumours of their relationship first surfaced nine days ago.
He lashed out at media intrusion and the 'sexism and racism of social media trolls' in a statement which said 'this is not a game - it is her life and his' and that he is 'deeply disappointed that he has not been able to protect her'.
A lengthy and strongly-worded statement issued by Kensington Palace said there had been a 'line crossed' in the abuse and harassment she has faced and it was 'not right' that his girlfriend 'should be subjected to such a storm'.
Harry was said to have offered to pay for a bodyguard for his girlfriend, which he had never offered to do for ex-girlfriends in the past.
But his brother Prince William was said to be deeply unhappy over his younger brother's decision to issue an unprecedented public statement, which was branded hot-headed by royal sources.
Weeks later Harry was accused of breaching royal protocol by making a 1,700-mile detour to visit his girlfriend after an official tour.
The prince was expected to fly home from the Caribbean, but he changed plans and instead boarded a flight to Toronto to see her.
The daughter of an African-American mother and a father of Dutch and Irish descent, Miss Markle spent time on film sets as a child.
Her father Thomas was a cinematographer, and worked on the hit US sitcom Married With Children; her mother is Doria Ragland - a social worker and yoga therapist.
Doria was just 20 years old, and temping in a TV studio, when she caught the eye of Meghan’s father.
At the time, Thomas was a 32-year-old divorcee with two children. They married in 1979, and Meghan was born two years later.
Meghan remains close to her mother, who divorced her father when she was six, and is often seen with her on the red carpet.
At Prince Harry's Invictus Games in Toronto in September, Meghan brought Doria to the closing ceremony in a sign of their closeness.
Doria, who filed for bankruptcy in 2002 over a $52,750 credit-card bill, appears to be the one of the defining influences on her daughter’s life.
Meghan, who has described her childhood as happy and settled, has an older brother, Thomas Markle Jr.
She also has a wheelchair-bound estranged half-sister, Samantha Grant, 52 - who is writing a book about her sibling.
Grant's book has the working title 'The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister' and it will talk in-depth about her family's racist past, it was revealed in September.
The mother-of-three, who has multiple sclerosis, previously revealed that the last time she saw her half-sister - the siblings share the same father - was at her graduation in 2008.
The previously unseen book pitch suggests Grant will lift the lid on overt racism in her own family - but adds that the birth of Meghan in 1981 made her 'forever colour blind'.
It was not until December when Harry and Meghan were pictured together for the first time on a romantic date in London, where they saw critically-acclaimed play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Gielgud Theatre.
Both were wearing beanie hats and were talking animatedly and smiling as they strolled along Shaftesbury Avenue on the last weekend before Christmas.
Days earlier Megan had been seen buying a tree for her boyfriend in Kensington, close to his palace flat.
But despite their burgeoning affair she did not go with Harry to Sandringham to spend Christmas with the Queen.
After splitting their time together between Britain and Canada they made their first official appearance together in September this year as a couple when they attended a wheelchair tennis match.
They arrived and left holding hands, and spent half an hour in full public view, cheering the competitors and laughing together.
Miss Markle, who wore a white Misha Nonoo shirt called The Husband, ripped jeans and flat shoes, appeared unconcerned by the attention as she sat at her boyfriend's side.
Their willingness to be seen - and photographed - together was seen as a further sign that the couple were heading towards marriage.
Days earlier she had joined Harry at the opening of the Invictus Games. She was discreetly chaperoned not only by one of Harry's Scotland Yard police protection officers but also by Rose Hall, of the Invictus Games Foundation, who had spent the week by Harry's side.
At that time Miss Markle was already making advanced plans to move to London to be with him permanently and was staying in his Toronto hotel suite.
Miss Markle marked a change in Harry's taste in women, as he tends to go for society blondes. She's also no shrinking violet - but he's also no shrinking violet either.
Her Suits character - a legal assistant - is filmed in one scene in her bra as she consummates her relationship with junior partner Mike Ross in the office store room.
Harry's first - and most serious relationship - was with Zimbabwean designer Chelsy Davy, with whom he had a tempestuous seven-year relationship.
Dancer and actress Cressida Bonas was his most recent long-term girlfriend but the couple split after two years in 2014.
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She married her long-term boyfriend, film producer Trevor Engelson, 40, (pictured together) in Jamaica in 2011, but the couple split after just two years and they later divorced
Miss Markle is older than him - an attractive quality as the Prince has often spoken of his desire to commit and start a family like his brother.
The actress has lived in Toronto for several years.
She married her long-term boyfriend, film producer Trevor Engelson, 40, in Jamaica in 2011, but the couple split after just two years and they later divorced.
She later dated a leading Toronto chef, but now lives with just her two rescue dogs Bogart and Guy.
Meghan graduated from Northwestern University, where she studied theatre and international relations, and worked for the US Embassy in Buenos Aires.
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- Announcement made a week after his grandmother the Queen celebrated her 70th wedding anniversary
- The couple got engaged in London earlier this month and will marry in Spring 2018, Kensington Palace said
- Harry, 33, and Meghan, 36, revealed they were an item a year ago after a six-month secret relationship
- Meghan could become a princess or be given title Duchess of Sussex when she marries fifth in line to throne
- Pair have not said where they'll wed but it could be Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral or Windsor Castle
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have today announced they are engaged after the Queen gave her grandson permission to marry the star just a week after she celebrated her own 70th wedding anniversary.
The couple, who revealed they were an item a year ago after a six-month secret relationship, got engaged earlier this month in London and will marry in spring 2018, Kensington Palace said.
Harry, 33, and his American fiancee, 36, have not said where they will hold the ceremony but if they choose the UK most senior royals marry at Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral or the chapel at Windsor Castle.
They have chosen to state they are getting married just before they spend their first proper Christmas together.
Meghan, who is divorced, could become a princess or alternatively be given the title Duchess of Sussex when she marries the fifth in line to the throne and joins the royal family.
But they are likely to wait until Prince William and Kate have their third child, which is due in April.
Bookmakers refused to take any more bets on the couple getting engaged last week as Meghan landed in London and started moving her belongings and two dogs to the UK.
Social media went into meltdown but they have had to wait until today to hear that the fifth-in-line to the throne has proposed to his actress girlfriend.
The actress and model did not attend the Queen and Prince Philip's 70th wedding anniversary celebrations together - but she has met Her Majesty for tea.
And royal protocol dictates that Harry will have had to ask his grandmother to let him marry.
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Meghan and Harry became an item officially almost exactly 12 months ago, and the star couldn't hide her smiles as the news emerged in November last year
The Suits star is set to move to London having quit the show and has already left her apartment in Toronto.
She is shipping her belongings to the UK including her beloved dogs - a beagle named Guy and a labrador-shepherd named Bogart.
Initially at least, the newly-engaged couple are likely to move in together at Kensington Palace, where Prince William, Kate, Prince George and Princess Charlotte will be their neighbours.
The announcement marks an extraordinary 12 months since the couple said they were in love after a whirlwind romance where the prince quickly became 'besotted', royal sources said.
The 36-year-old actress, who is best known for her role as Rachel Zane in US legal drama Suits, is believed to have charmed the Royal when he visited Toronto in the summer of 2016.
They managed to keep their relationship secret from the world - but it later emerged she had met William and Kate and he had met her family in California.
Their cover was blown when keen observers spotted pictures of them wearing matching bracelets. The Prince followed the actress on Instagram using a pseudonym.
She also went to Wimbledon and Buckingham Palace this year coinciding with a period when Harry was in London but were never seen together.
As news of their love affair broke on Halloween last year, Harry was forced to abandon a secret trip to visit his actress girlfriend in Canada.
Meghan then flew to London two weeks later during a gap in her filming schedule and was photographed by MailOnline buying food on Kensington High Street, Princess Diana's favourite shopping street.
Days later, in an extraordinary statement on his love life, Harry said he is 'worried about Miss Markle's safety' since rumours of their relationship first surfaced nine days ago.
He lashed out at media intrusion and the 'sexism and racism of social media trolls' in a statement which said 'this is not a game - it is her life and his' and that he is 'deeply disappointed that he has not been able to protect her'.
A lengthy and strongly-worded statement issued by Kensington Palace said there had been a 'line crossed' in the abuse and harassment she has faced and it was 'not right' that his girlfriend 'should be subjected to such a storm'.
Harry was said to have offered to pay for a bodyguard for his girlfriend, which he had never offered to do for ex-girlfriends in the past.
But his brother Prince William was said to be deeply unhappy over his younger brother's decision to issue an unprecedented public statement, which was branded hot-headed by royal sources.
Weeks later Harry was accused of breaching royal protocol by making a 1,700-mile detour to visit his girlfriend after an official tour.
The prince was expected to fly home from the Caribbean, but he changed plans and instead boarded a flight to Toronto to see her.
The daughter of an African-American mother and a father of Dutch and Irish descent, Miss Markle spent time on film sets as a child.
Her father Thomas was a cinematographer, and worked on the hit US sitcom Married With Children; her mother is Doria Ragland - a social worker and yoga therapist.
Doria was just 20 years old, and temping in a TV studio, when she caught the eye of Meghan’s father.
At the time, Thomas was a 32-year-old divorcee with two children. They married in 1979, and Meghan was born two years later.
Meghan remains close to her mother, who divorced her father when she was six, and is often seen with her on the red carpet.
At Prince Harry's Invictus Games in Toronto in September, Meghan brought Doria to the closing ceremony in a sign of their closeness.
Doria, who filed for bankruptcy in 2002 over a $52,750 credit-card bill, appears to be the one of the defining influences on her daughter’s life.
Meghan, who has described her childhood as happy and settled, has an older brother, Thomas Markle Jr.
She also has a wheelchair-bound estranged half-sister, Samantha Grant, 52 - who is writing a book about her sibling.
Grant's book has the working title 'The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister' and it will talk in-depth about her family's racist past, it was revealed in September.
The mother-of-three, who has multiple sclerosis, previously revealed that the last time she saw her half-sister - the siblings share the same father - was at her graduation in 2008.
The previously unseen book pitch suggests Grant will lift the lid on overt racism in her own family - but adds that the birth of Meghan in 1981 made her 'forever colour blind'.
It was not until December when Harry and Meghan were pictured together for the first time on a romantic date in London, where they saw critically-acclaimed play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Gielgud Theatre.
Both were wearing beanie hats and were talking animatedly and smiling as they strolled along Shaftesbury Avenue on the last weekend before Christmas.
Days earlier Megan had been seen buying a tree for her boyfriend in Kensington, close to his palace flat.
But despite their burgeoning affair she did not go with Harry to Sandringham to spend Christmas with the Queen.
After splitting their time together between Britain and Canada they made their first official appearance together in September this year as a couple when they attended a wheelchair tennis match.
They arrived and left holding hands, and spent half an hour in full public view, cheering the competitors and laughing together.
Miss Markle, who wore a white Misha Nonoo shirt called The Husband, ripped jeans and flat shoes, appeared unconcerned by the attention as she sat at her boyfriend's side.
Their willingness to be seen - and photographed - together was seen as a further sign that the couple were heading towards marriage.
Days earlier she had joined Harry at the opening of the Invictus Games. She was discreetly chaperoned not only by one of Harry's Scotland Yard police protection officers but also by Rose Hall, of the Invictus Games Foundation, who had spent the week by Harry's side.
At that time Miss Markle was already making advanced plans to move to London to be with him permanently and was staying in his Toronto hotel suite.
Miss Markle marked a change in Harry's taste in women, as he tends to go for society blondes. She's also no shrinking violet - but he's also no shrinking violet either.
Her Suits character - a legal assistant - is filmed in one scene in her bra as she consummates her relationship with junior partner Mike Ross in the office store room.
Harry's first - and most serious relationship - was with Zimbabwean designer Chelsy Davy, with whom he had a tempestuous seven-year relationship.
Dancer and actress Cressida Bonas was his most recent long-term girlfriend but the couple split after two years in 2014.
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She married her long-term boyfriend, film producer Trevor Engelson, 40, (pictured together) in Jamaica in 2011, but the couple split after just two years and they later divorced
Miss Markle is older than him - an attractive quality as the Prince has often spoken of his desire to commit and start a family like his brother.
The actress has lived in Toronto for several years.
She married her long-term boyfriend, film producer Trevor Engelson, 40, in Jamaica in 2011, but the couple split after just two years and they later divorced.
She later dated a leading Toronto chef, but now lives with just her two rescue dogs Bogart and Guy.
Meghan graduated from Northwestern University, where she studied theatre and international relations, and worked for the US Embassy in Buenos Aires.
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