Harry will pop question ‘any day now’, say bookmakers

ANY committed couple well into their 30s will be all too familiar with the knowing glances and thinly veiled interrogations about their future.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle endured pressure on a national scale yesterday, as bookies triggered more speculation about a proposal, as well as their wedding date and venue.

The Prince and Ms Markle, his American girlfriend, who has arrived in London this week, are heavily tipped to become engaged “imminently”, with social media users on tenterhooks after a series of false rumours about timings.

Bookmakers claim to have received a flurry of bets that give weight to the suggestion that a wedding is all but certain next year, with odds in favour of a St Paul’s ceremony.

Speculation has been stoked by the appearance of Ms Markle in London, and reports that she is in the process of moving her two dogs to the UK to be with her.

The couple have not been seen together in public since the Invictus Games in Toronto, where they showed their affection in front of the media.

The actress is now free from her contractual obligations to Suits, the television drama series, having filmed her last episode, and is said to be moving out of her Toronto home.

A move to London, where she is presumed to be staying with the Prince at Kensington Palace, has been interpreted as the clearest sign yet of their committed relationship.

“It seems as though Harry will pop the question any day now and we think that a Royal wedding is mostly likely next summer after the birth of William and Kate’s third child,” said Harry Aitkenhead, of Coral, the bookmaker.

Kensington Palace has given no sign that an announcement is imminent.