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Meghan on Harry: ‘We are so in love...
Wills: When Kate is over sickness we can celebrate £92,000 fine for topless photos
includes seven-time Wimbledon champ Serena Williams, who she met seven years ago at the Super Bowl. Serena says of Meghan: “Her personality just shines.”
Meghan, who was pictured for the piece by Peter Lindbergh exclusively for Vanity Fair, does not address rumours of an engagement during her recent trip to Botswana with Harry.
The country is special to Harry, who first visited 20 years ago shortly after the death of mum Princess Diana. Africa is also where Prince William proposed to Kate in 2010. Meghan speaks about growing up with a black mother, Doria Radlan, and white father, Thomas Markle. She says she first really noticed her ethnicity when she was 11 and PRINCE William said it was “very good news” but he was “anxious” in his first appearance since it was announced on Monday that his third child is on the way.
The Duke of Cambridge met police officers and mental health professionals in Oxford to give a speech on the importance of speaking about mental health issues.
When congratulated by the chairman of Oxfordshire County Council, Zoe Patrick, he said: “Thank you, it’s very good news … We need Catherine to get over this first bit and then we can start celebrating. It’s always a bit anxious to start with.”
The Duchess has extreme morning sickness, as she did with her first two, and is being cared for at Kensington Palace.
Prince George, four, is also due to start school tomorrow, in a busy week for Kate and William. He said: “There’s no much sleep going on at the moment.” WILLIAM and Kate yesterday won their French court battle over the publication of topless pictures of the Duchess.
France’s Closer magazine was ordered to pay £92,000 in damages to the pair for breaching Kate’s privacy. But the figure was far lower than the £1.5million claimed by lawyers for the royal couple.
The photos were taken as William and Kate stayed at a private chateau in Provence in 2012. Long-lens cameras caught Kate wearing just a pair of bikini bottoms. Another image showed William rubbing suncream on to his wife’s skin.
They were published on the front of Closer with the headline “Oh my God!”
Six defendants, including the magazine owner and editor, denied the charges.
had to tick one of four boxes on a form – white, black, Hispanic, or Asian.
She says she felt that to choose either white or black would be a rejection of one of her parents, so she left the boxes unticked.
If she marries Harry she will become the first American to enter into the royal family since Wallis Simpson wed King Edward VIII.
Ancient rules bar Catholics, commoners, and divorcees from marrying royals. Meghan was previously wed to producer Trevor Engelson and, though not Catholic, graduated from a Catholic high school.
The Queen, however, is said to be understanding of modern life – previously allowing William to marry commoner Kate Middleton. October issue of Vanity Fair out on Friday.