The Royal wedding: A perfect Hollywood story
In Hollywood, the best love stories are the ones that involve an Unlikely Couple — two people so divided by family or fate, time or class, personality or geography that it seems i m p o s s i bl e they will ever get together. Saturday's royal wedding provides a happy ending made possible by Hollywood, so it makes sense that it involves a couple who faced most, if not all, of those obstacles. Certainly, from the viewpoint of a storyteller, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry of Wales are the unlikeliest couple of all. Until fairly recently, Meghan, 36, was a little-known star of "Suits," a popular but by no means prestige show on USA. She is from Los Angeles, and she is divorced; her first husband is a television producer. She is into yoga, avocados and the beach. She identifies as a feminist; before "Suits," her biggest claim to fame was that by writing to then-First Lady Hillary Clinton at age 11, she helped change the sexist language of a dish detergent ad.
A former "briefcase girl" on the game show "Deal or No Deal," she began her television career with an appearance on "General Hospital"; her first film role was "Hot Girl #1" in an Ashton Kutcher project.
For many years, she had a lifestyle blog, and an Instagram account that focused on food, fashion and her dogs. Before that, she served frozen yogurt in the Valley and earned money as a calligrapher.
Harry, on the other hand, is the 33-year old prince of Wales, grandson of the reigning monarch, son of the beloved Diana. The boy who walked so bravely behind his mother's flower-laden coffin on which balanced a card that he had addressed to "Mummy."
Not the first son, mind you. Not the heir but "the spare," to use the phrase that occupied so many unfortunate headlines announcing his birth. And he knew it. His childhood was incessantly chronicled as part of, and in contrast to, the world's most bitter and most famous divorce.
While his older brother, William, grew into modern majesty, with his mother's eyes and his father's hairline, Harry, the red- haired child of the family, ran around getting into trouble, dating women and dropping them, until he straightened himself out and began taking this prince thing a bit more seriously.
Still, he was one of the more beloved members of the royal family, and one of the world's most famous people. Honestly, even with Harry and Meghan's highly publicized, televised and millinerized wedding just hours away, it seems impossible to believe that they met at all.
But if the newest royal couple did not meet classic-cute — her saving a handsome guy, say, from further embarrassment in some Vegas bar only to discover he was a prince — it was Hollywood that made the match possible.
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