PankajBlushing Bride
For many of us, we first heard of Meghan or at least got to know her more, when she walked down the aisle with British royal Prince Harry. But actually, did you know that it wasn’t the first time she had gotten married?
That’s right! She was previously married to a producer named Trevor Engelson from 2004 to 2013. At the time, it seemed that they were very much in love and would last forever. But the next few years were so tumultuous, it would prove the end of their marriage in more ways than one.
Royal Deal
While Meghan was trying to make a name for herself as an actress, she didn’t just do odd jobs like bookbinding and calligraphy. Like any budding actress, she had to take on a lot of crappy roles that she didn’t really enjoy, such as being one of the briefcase girls on the competition show Deal or No Deal.
“I was the ill-fated number 26, which for some reason no one would ever choose,” she said to Esquire. “I would end up standing up there forever in these terribly uncomfortable and inexpensive five-inch heels just waiting for someone to pick my number so I could go and sit down.”
Showbiz Moves
Fortunately, Markle didn’t have to take too many terrible low-budget acting jobs like that. Soon enough, she began to get herself noticed in the industry, and started landing parts in movies such as Horrible Bosses, Get Him to the Greek, Remember Me, and The Candidate.
But of course, it was her role in one particular TV show that would propel her to genuine celebrity status—the legal drama Suits. This would take her career to new heights—in more ways than one.
Oh Canada
As we know, Meghan Markle got her big break playing the paralegal Rachel Zane in the legal drama Suits. Isn’t it funny, considering that her birth name was also actually Rachel!
And once it started, she had to move her whole life to Toronto, Canada, where the show was filmed. Markle has referred to herself as an “adopted Canuck”, seeing as during that period, she spent about eight months out of the year in the country.
Settling In
And it wasn’t just Canada itself that Markle ended up falling in love with. She actually settled down there pretty well, renting a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home in Seaton Village, and started rubbing shoulders with the crème de la crème of Canada’s celeb network.
Becoming close friends with the closest thing to Canadian royalty, perhaps this is where Markle got her first taste of what life might be like as a princess. And as you can tell, she loved it at her first chance and it loved her right back.
Cast Club
As well as finding her place in the elite social scene of Canada’s glitterati, Markle also found herself making firm friends with all of her costars on Suits. She was friends, in fact good friends with everyone on the set. It was just like their natural chemistry was being reflected on screen.
She revealed that the entire cast was super close and became really good pals—always going on vacation with each other and often partying late into the night. We know that Prince Harry also loved partying in his younger days, so is that what initially attracted the two to each other?