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27th November 2017, 11:07 AM
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Harry to Marry
Daily Telegraph Hannah Furness, royal correspondent
27 NOVEMBER 2017 • 10:10AM
Prince Harry is to marry American actress Meghan Markle, it has been announced.
Clarence House said in a statement that the Prince, 33, and his 36-year-old girlfriend are engaged.
In a statement, a spokesman said: "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. Further details about the wedding day will be announced in due course.
"His Royal Highness and Ms. Markle became engaged in London earlier this month. Prince Harry has informed Her Majesty The Queen and other close members of his family.
"Prince Harry has also sought and received the blessing of Ms. Markle's parents.
"The couple will live in Nottingham Cottage at Kensington Palace
In a statement issued by Kensington Palace, Ms Markle's parents Thomas Markle and Doria Ragland said: "We are incredibly happy for Meghan and Harry. Our daughter has always been a kind and loving person.
"To see her union with Harry, who shares the same qualities, is a source of great joy for us as parents.
"We wish them a lifetime of happiness and are very excited for their futur
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The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince Harry to Ms. Meghan
The Queen has given her blessing to the union, with Prince Harry at fifth-in-line to the throne obliged to ask her permission under the Succession to the Crown Act 2013.
Ms Markle has been wed once before, marrying film producer Trevor Engelson in Jamaica in 2011, but splitting after just two years.
Her engagement to Prince Harry has been hotly anticipated by Royal watchers, after the couple made their first public appearance together hand-in-hand at the Invictus Games.
Walking hand-in-hand, they watched the wheelchair tennis together in an affectionate half an hour together in front of the world's media.
Ms Markle had also made an appearance at the Games' opening ceremony, sitting apart from Prince Harry but under the watchful eye of his protection officer.
Speculation had already been building after an extraordinary interview with Vanity Fair in which Ms Markle declared the couple were “in love”
Until then, they had managed to keep details of their early romance largely under wraps, after being introduced by mutual friends in London in July 2016.
In October 2016, their fledgling relationship was exposed in a Sunday newspaper, and confirmed a week later in an unusual statement issued by Prince Harry pleading for Ms Markle to be given her privacy.
Over the following months, they were photographed together on several occasions including visiting the theatre in London and at a friend’s wedding in Jamaica
Last edited by robpage; 27th November 2017 at 11:11 AM.
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28th November 2017, 08:05 AM
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I am waiting for a wailing cry from Stonewall , in the interest of equality , they were hoping that a romance with Errol an Afro-Caribbean plumber from Slough would give us the first same sex royal wedding
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28th November 2017, 08:11 AM
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Oh! Dear, Oh Dear, Oh Dear Rob! you haven't taken over the 'Stale News' duties have you
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28th November 2017, 08:37 AM
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I couldn't repeat it here , you know we don't do fake news , b u t I believe an ex- colony changed the same sex marriage laws , in case the happy couple had a beach wedding
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28th November 2017, 09:39 AM
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We did, and now if you refuse to go to a Gay Wedding you could end up in the discrimination court, and I thought that I had the right to refuse to work for anyone as I thought fit. My problem if I lost money. Not any more.
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28th November 2017, 03:12 PM
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One reporter at first said he thought he was engaged to Mrs Merkel, not Megan Markle,
now that would have been big news
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29th November 2017, 06:00 AM
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Having seen the footage I now have some doubts about our Harry.
Obviously he cannot sing and the cry came, 'sing, sing or show your ring'.
There he is stark bollok naked in the picture.
But he has pushed the republican cause here in Oz back by another few years as news has had the Monarchists raging about it.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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29th November 2017, 10:14 AM
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Personally Scarlet " I don't care a dam"
Funny how the Church has changed it's rules now.
Just get on with it and give us all a break.
There must be other news to fill the papers.
Ron the batcave
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29th November 2017, 10:24 AM
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it is arranged by the politicians to give us a break from Brexit
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29th November 2017, 12:14 PM
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Getting political Lewis, Brussels are dropping figures like dead flies. UK has not agreed figure yet.
Vic
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