HARRY’S GIRL on romance, race & death threats

(over a dirty martini with Piers Morgan!)

SHE is the talk of high society, as commentators speculate feverishly about the girl who’s won Prince Harry’s heart.

Now Meghan Markle’s attitudes to relationships, the death threats she’s received, and some of the dubious TV jobs she’s taken can be revealed – thanks to a wide-ranging conversation she had with Mail on Sunday columnist Piers Morgan over a dirty martini in a London pub.

In one telling comment that could apply to her romantic life, she said: ‘My mantra is, “Don’t give it five minutes if you’re not going to give it five years”.’

Piers met the American actress in London in June, months before the world learned about her Royal relationship. She hinted about a ‘persistent’ man in her life – and the very next night, she was seen with Prince Harry at fashionable members’ club Soho House.

Meghan’s comment came as she prepared to leave the pub in Kensington, West London, where she had spent 90 minutes chatting to Piers. She read a text message, smiled, and said: ‘I’m recently single again, so I’ve got a few guys being a little… persistent! I’m just out of practice with the dating scene.’

Meghan, 35, met up with Piers after she spent a day watching tennis and drinking champagne in the Royal Box at Wimbledon. Piers says their conversation gave him ‘a pretty good insight into the new global object of Royal girlfriend frenzy.’

Harry last week hit out at the ‘abuse and harassment’ Meghan has endured, including ‘sexism and racism’ from ‘social media trolls’.

But, as Meghan told Piers, this is not entirely new territory, as she was bombarded with hate messages when her character in the US drama series Suits, Rachel Zane, cheated on her boyfriend in the show. She said: ‘People wanted to kill me! Not Rachel… ME. I never knew there were so many emojis with guns and knives. It was very unpleasant. Fortunately, Rachel got back on her pedestal and it stopped.’

Meghan said she supported gun control measures in the US, and wished more people would take a stance to try to stem ‘so many needless deaths’ – as Piers did on his CNN show. She also spoke about her mixed race upbringing, saying: ‘My dad’s Caucasian, my mother’s African-American, so I’m half-white, half-black. It caused me a lot of confusion when I was young because it’s not easy to be ethnically ambiguous in America. But I learned to embrace being a mixed-race woman.’

And Meghan revealed some more obscure secrets about herself – such as the fact that she is a trained calligrapher who wrote the invitation cards and envelopes for pop singer Robin Thicke’s 2005 wedding.

In another tip for Harry, she said: ‘There’s still something incredibly romantic and special about a guy writing to a girl and putting pen to paper rather than emailing it.’

Meghan was also a ‘briefcase girl’ on the American version of TV quiz show Deal Or No Deal. ‘I cringe when I think about it now,’ she said. ‘But it paid the rent.’ On the show, she was forced to ‘stand for hours in very cheap, very high heels waiting for someone to pick me’.

So now that Harry has picked her, what does Piers think of the new Royal consort?

‘She’s got beauty, brains, charm, and a great sense of humour,’ he says. ‘Meghan Markle is perfect princess material.’