Prince Harry to Marry Meghan Markle Next Year

Britain’s Prince Harry is to marry his US actress girlfriend Meghan Markle early next year it was announced Monday, with the Queen leading a chorus of approval and best wishes for the couple who got engaged in secret earlier this month, according to AFP.

Royal officials ended fevered speculation about the 33-year-old prince, once the bad boy of the House of Windsor but now seen as one of its biggest assets.

“His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince Harry to Ms Meghan Markle. The wedding will take place in Spring 2018,” Clarence House, Prince Charles’s office, said a statement.

The couple’s engagement was sealed in London and the prince then informed his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, close members of the royal family and had also sought the blessing of Markle’s parents.

“The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh are delighted for the couple and wish them every happiness,”said a message on the monarch’s official Twitter page.

The couple will live at Nottingham Cottage in London’s Kensington Palace, where his brother William and his pregnant wife Kate live with their two children.

Harry’s 36-year-old bride-to-be is best known for her role as a lawyer in the hit television show “Suits”.

Reports that Markle, who is expected to become a duchess, was moving her two dogs – Guy and Bogart – to London further fuelled rumours of the first royal wedding since William and Kate in 2011.