What is the secret of Meghan Markle's youth?
The rivalry between two royal figures, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, has been known for a long time. However, fans of Kate and Meghan began to notice that the Duchess of Sussex looks much younger than the Duchess of Cambridge. Is it really about Meghan Markle’s beauty habits or does Prince Harry’s wife use “beauty injections”?
It must be said that Meghan Markle’s image is almost perfect. As the press notes, the Duchess of Sussex's pregnancy suited her. By analyzing Megan's interview about her beauty habits, attitude towards fitness and nutrition, you can understand the secret of her youth and beauty.
The Duchesses of Cambridge and Cornwall have united against Meghan Markle!
It doesn't get any easier hour by hour! The press received insider information that Kate Middleton and Camilla Parker Bowles disliked Prince Harry's fiancée, American Meghan Markle. Very soon it will become known about the official engagement of Megan and the grandson of the Queen of Great Britain, and then the wedding is just around the corner. Therefore, ladies need to act very quickly if they want to have time to influence the course of events. As you know, Kate and Camilla had not previously had warm and friendly relations, but the appearance of a common enemy made them forget about their differences for a while.
Rumors that the wife of Princess Diana's eldest son cannot stand Meghan Markle have been around for quite some time. It turns out that the Duchess of Cambridge is simply jealous of the Suits star. With her appearance as Prince Harry's girlfriend, all the attention of the public and the press turned to their future wedding and details of the relationship.
Rumor has it that Kate dreams of disrupting her brother-in-law's wedding to an American woman. And Camilla Parker Bowles helps her with this. The Duchess of Cornwall believes that Markle is not the most successful match for her high-born stepson.
Here are the comments from an anonymous source to the tabloid The Inquisitr:
“What Kate is most angry about is that the press simply forgot about her third pregnancy! All attention turned to the details of the future wedding of Megan and her husband's younger brother. Catherine called Camilla for help and together they intend to destroy the relationship of this couple.”
Getting rid of an upstart with a dark past
This is exactly what two ladies from high society dream about. The insider said that Megan was not at home - all members of the royal family, and especially the wife of Prince Charles, did not accept her.
She is sure that a 36-year-old woman, who has been married and has a profession as an actress, is not suitable for the role of the daughter-in-law of her beloved husband. With her imperfect reputation, Megan can ruin the image of the Windsor dynasty.
It’s strange to hear such speeches from the mistress of the heir to the throne, who continued to have an affair with him while his wife was alive... In any case, dislike for Meghan Markle united Camilla and Kate. The ladies dream of only one thing - to send the girl back to the USA forever and prevent her from marrying Prince Harry.
Sounds logical, but implausible...
Duchess Taboo
Although, why should we be surprised? The life of the Duchess of Cambridge only from afar resembles the embodiment of every girl's dream. In fact, Kate Middleton is not that happy in her marriage, and this is what may be making her angry and venting her negativity on the innocent Meghan.
Did you know that the life of Prince William's wife consists of many prohibitions? She must not wear bright makeup or manicure; she must always restrain her emotions and be polite in public. Kate should not show her feelings for her husband, because this could harm the reputation of the future monarch!
Meghan Markle's preferences that help her look younger
Prince Harry's wife has admitted more than once that she began to devote more time to her appearance. She cites a change in approach to lifestyle as the reason for this. As Megan grew older, she began to understand that she needed to be more careful about her own health and provide proper care for the skin of her face, hands and body.
At the same time, we are talking not only about the aesthetic side of the issue, but also about the way of life, which has also changed dramatically. The Duchess of Sussex is a very energetic woman. She is constantly on the move and loves to travel and visit new places. Jamaica, Botswana, Los Angeles, Barcelona - this is an incomplete list of places where Meghan Markle likes to visit.
Prince Harry's wife is constantly improving her skills in yoga, which she began to practice at the age of seven. (Her mother Doria Markle was a yoga instructor.) At the same time, Megan spares no time in training and enjoys doing what she loves.
Why Meghan Markle won't be the next Kate Middleton
On September 25, Prince Harry made his first appearance at a social event with his girlfriend. We know 36-year-old actress Meghan Markle from seven seasons of Suits and the role of brave Rachel. The screen heroine Megan destroys the stereotypes about a modest legal assistant: Rachel has her own glass office, Céline bags in all shades of beige and her own opinion. The role of the future princess Meghan Markle plays in the same spirit - with Kate Middleton, exemplary in all respects, they are united only by the length of their hair. We talk about why we declare Markle (and not Middleton) the princess of our time.
About family and nationality
Meghan Markle is called the new Cinderella - for her poor childhood. Yes, that’s what they wrote about Kate Middleton, the daughter of English multimillionaires from Berkshire with a “modest” estate worth 6 million pounds. Catherine's father's grandmother is wealthy aristocrat Olive Christian Middleton, and Kate's mother's brother is multimillionaire Harry Goldsmith.
Meghan Markle's story is much more down-to-earth. Megan's parents divorced when the girl was six years old. Her father, Thomas Markle, worked as the lighting director on two television shows for housewives, Married with Children and General Hospital. Megan's mother, African-American Doria Radlan, teaches yoga at a fitness club near her home. Megan does not hide this, but is proud of her parents’ perseverance: at every opportunity she reminds her that her father once earned an Emmy statuette, and her mother volunteers to help the mentally ill at Didi Hirsch Hospital.
Meghan Markle speaks openly and with pleasure about her nationality: “My parents themselves created the world around me so that I wouldn’t feel different, but I knew that I was special. When doll sets were divided by skin color in 1980, my dad gave me four dolls: a mommy doll with dark skin, a daddy doll with white skin, and two baby dolls of both colors.” In an interview with British Elle, Meghan recalls how, in seventh grade, she was asked to fill out a form in which she had to indicate her racial identity - white, African-American, Latino or Asian: “I told the teacher that this would mean abandoning one of my parents, and put a question mark in the answer column.”
In her acting career, Megan's multiracialism allows her to audition for both the roles of Latinos and the roles of white girls. When black actor Wendell Price became Megan's on-screen father in the second season of Suits, viewers wrote in the comments that they didn't see the connection between them.
After the release of the second season, Megan responded to them with a public post: “Who am I is a question I get asked every week, every day. Well, I answer with a memorized phrase. I'm an actress, writer, editor-in-chief of my own lifestyle brand, The Tig, an excellent cook, and a lover of handwritten letters. It sounds quite long, yes, but I feel that this is the only way to introduce yourself to people. Then they ask me again: “Okay, but who are you? Where are your parents from? I don’t talk about Pennsylvania or Ohio, but go straight to the answer that is so expected of me. My dad is white and my mom is African American. I'm half white and half black."
Her royal boyfriend is more worried about the increased attention to Megan's nationality. Back in November 2021, when the relationship between the actress and the prince was not officially confirmed, an announcement appeared on the Kensington Palace website: “The prince’s girlfriend, Meghan Markle, became the target of harassment, some of which went into public space - publication on the front page of a national newspaper, racist innuendo comments and inappropriate sexist and racist comments from media trolls. "Prince Harry is concerned for Ms. Markle's safety and is very upset that he did not have the opportunity to protect her."
Career
“Actress, writer and editor-in-chief of a lifestyle brand” - all this sounds like a classic description of the profession of a blogger with a million subscribers, but as for Megan, she really did both the first, and the second, and the third. But it's worth starting with the fact that Megan became the first person in her family to graduate from college. Moreover, Markle had two specialties at once - “theater” and “international relations”.
Megan's Hollywood career began with letters. “I was a calligrapher of invitations for weddings and events - I earned money so that I had time to go to auditions. I believe handwriting is a forgotten form of creativity. When I got the part in the pilot of the show, my dad wrote me a letter that I still have,” Markle tells Good Housekeeping.
Before Suits, Megan solemnly carried suitcase number 24 on the show Deal No Deal (analogous to Russian Lotto) and played cameo roles in the TV series 90210, CSI: Miami and CSI: New York.
The next step was a 30-second scene in “More Than Love” - Megan played the talkative Natalie, a passenger on the plane on which Ashton Kutcher was flying. When Markle played a FedEx delivery driver in Horrible Bosses, actor Jason Sudeikis said, “You're too good for that role. You have to be a real actress or model."
Since 2011, Megan has starred in the TV series Suits. For the sake of filming the seventh season, Megan moved to live in Toronto until September 2017. According to rumors, she did not come to Prince Harry, but he came to her, right on the set.
“I never wanted to be a lunch lady. “I always wanted to be a woman who works,” Megan said in an interview with Hello. Let's remember Kate Middleton: the Duchess received a Bachelor of Art History in 2005 and immediately began working in her parents' company called Party Pieces (literally - “Things for a Party”). The company's only job is to mail out holiday supplies. That same year, William and Kate announced that they were in a relationship. In 2006, Kate got a part-time job in the purchasing department of women's clothing store Jigsaw, where she worked for less than a year. She said that she was leaving Jigsaw to take up photography, but we never saw her work - except for the children's portraits of Charlotte and George.
The fight for equality
It is difficult to name at least one princess who does not engage in charity work: this is an obligatory part of the program to maintain a good image of the royal family. But if Kate Middleton became imbued with philanthropy only after moving to Kensington Palace, then Meghan Markle was worried about global problems long before her relationship with Harry - since 1992.
In an interview with Larry King, Megan told how at the age of 11 she came home from school and heard an advertisement on TV: detergent manufacturers declared that a woman’s place was in the kitchen. The girl ran to her father and asked him in surprise if it was true. Then Megan heard that her classmates completely agreed with the text of this advertisement. The schoolgirl wrote a long letter to US First Lady Hillary Clinton asking her to influence the situation. As a result, the advertising text was changed.
The main hero of Megan's childhood was the girl from the most famous feminist poster - Rosie the Riveter. “When I was little, there was a poster in my room of Rosie flexing her biceps. When I saw that sexist detergent ad at age 11, I remembered Rosie’s mantra “We can do it!” and wrote a letter to Clinton."
Since the age of 20, Markle has been involved with charities that support children in disadvantaged areas, such as the UN and World Vision. In 2015, the actress collaborated with the UN and gave a speech at the organization’s headquarters on gender equality on International Women’s Day. Markle received a standing ovation from Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
To motivate people and talk about her experiences, Megan created the lifestyle blog The Tig and ran it for three years. The project's motto was Megan's favorite phrase: “Be the change you want to see in the world.” The name The Tig was chosen in honor of Megan's favorite red wine, Tignanello. In addition to articles about love for peace and the fight for equal rights, Megan also wrote about eating problems. The actress urged girls to love themselves and not go on diets. Like Rachel from Suits, Megan loves to eat everything - pasta, guacamole, cream cheese toast and vegan bars from Whole Foods. For this approach to the blog, Megan was called “Gwyneth Paltrow in reverse.”
When the host asked on The Larry King Show if she felt feminists were prejudiced against her because of her appearance (the actress was wearing a tight, sleeveless cotton dress), the girl replied: “I want to wear what I want. Who said feminism can’t be feminine?”
Ex-husband
Information about Kate Middleton's fleeting relationships before meeting the royal grandson seems as criminal as drawings in the margins of school notebooks. Catherine's first boyfriend, Oxford graduate and reporter Willem Marks, says that their relationship was more of a friendship, and Kate dated lawyer Rupert Finch for less than a year - and prudently broke up before her first date with William.
Meghan Markle's past is indicated in her passport: from 2011 to 2014, the actress was married to producer Trevor Engelson. They started dating seven years before the wedding, and the celebration was held in Jamaica - the bride walked to the altar barefoot in the sand. The couple decided to separate after two years of living separately - in 2011, Markle left Los Angeles for Toronto to film Suits. Engelson is not ready to forget about the divorce: on September 22, Deadline reported that he was filming a comedy about a girl who leaves her husband for an affair with a prince. The sitcom preview begins with the phrase “Divorce is hard.” Meghan Markle refuses to comment.
In an October interview with Meghan Markle for Vanity Fair, the journalist notes that according to an old rule of the royal family, a divorced woman cannot enter the royal family. However, according to the tabloids, Harry has already introduced Meghan to the queen. By the way, William introduced Kate Middleton to his grandmother only five years after they met.
Style
We have already talked about Kate Middleton's signature discreet elegance. Kate wears classic Mulberry and Longchamp bags, LK Bennett and Russell & Bromley pumps, and modest dresses from Reiss, Hobbs and Whistles to the palm below the knee. Meghan Markle follows fashion more boldly than the Duchess of Cambridge: she buys ripped Paige jeans, J. Crew jackets, multi-colored Marc Jacobs bags and items from the young brand Rough & Tumble. If Meghan wears skirts below the knee, then they are tight-fitting and leather, as in her joint collection with the Canadian department store Reitmans. Moreover, back in the first season of Suits, the actress appeared naked on screen, which has little correlation with the image of a member of the royal family (the antics of Prince Harry himself do not count).
When Kate Middleton appeared on the covers of most women's magazines in 2005, she seemed like one of the queen's family members. She reacted to the warm welcome the way she knew how - with a restrained smile and polished phrases in interviews. She works out her body every day at the royal gym, buys organic British food and has long given up wine - a habit that did not suit her image. Polishing your own interests and appearance for the sake of public opinion has gone out of fashion - along with Kate Middleton. This is replaced by courage, self-love and delicious breakfasts after yoga - everything that Meghan Markle stands for.
Meghan Markle's culinary hobbies
Markle loves to cook, turning food into a masterpiece of taste and good mood. Meghan's passion for food and travel even made her want to create a talk show about it. The Duchess prefers to eat healthy food, but sometimes she has exceptions to the rules: she eats french fries and pasta.
I love potatoes and pasta. And who doesn't love them? On normal days I stick to a vegetarian diet, and on weekends I give my body some slack. After all, this is reasonable,” says Megan.
Beauty habits of Meghan Markle
MEGHAN Markle's previously chosen hobbies of contouring, wide eyebrows, and bright red lipstick are already a thing of the past. Now the Duchess prefers to spend only a few minutes on makeup. She doesn't like foundation, chooses a light primer with a shimmer effect, applies a little blush, uses chapstick and curls her eyelashes. Even if Megan goes out without makeup, she applies a little shimmer in the corners of her eyes.
Her naturalness and relaxed behavior sometimes cause confusion among fans of royal etiquette, but Meghan is not at all embarrassed by this. She is quite happily married.
