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30 Established 1961 Wednesday, November 29, 2017 Lifestyle Features Photo shows the Crenshaw district in Los Angeles, California, where actress Meghan An exterior view of the Immaculate Heart High School in Hollywood, California where Britain’s Prince Harry and his fiance US actress Meghan Markle pose for a photograph Markle was reported to have grown up. — AFP actress Meghan Markle was educated. in the Sunken Garden in west London following the engagement announcement. Meghan Markle follows Grace Kelly in abandoning acting eghan Markle says acting will take a back seat will remember her as a working TV actor rather than an Markle will be the first American welcomed into the roy- Bose said she expected Markle to follow other members of when she marries Prince Harry, following the exam- celebrity or a Hollywood star,” Sehdev, bestselling author of als since Wallis Simpson-famously also a divorcee-but will the family in pursuing charitable activities. Mple of screen icon Grace Kelly who abandoned “The Kim Kardashian Principle,” told AFP. He added that probably not, in fact, be a princess. What is far more likely, “Well before meeting Prince Harry, Markle already demon- Hollywood to marry into royalty. The 36-year-old has Britain’s first mixed-race royal could nevertheless inspire the say experts, is that the couple become a duke and duchess, strated a serious interest and commitment to social justice initia- starred in legal drama “Suits” since 2011, but is likely to shed British TV industry to create more leading roles for actors of like William and Kate. As well as starring as paralegal Rachel tives, as a World Vision Global Ambassador and an advocate for many outside interests as she joins the color. “Meghan Markle is the face of the Zane on “Suits,” Markle is an entrepreneur, activist, blogger political participation and leadership for women through the British royal family following the couple’s modern princess and there’s no reason and fashion designer and would probably be expected to United Nations,” she said. “These activities provide her with both engagement announcement, according to why she shouldn’t keep working in TV drop many of those pursuits too, to focus on royal activities. experience and credibility as a patron of causes when she observers. Markle confirmed in an inter- after her marriage. The palace will likely The actress appears to already be winding down her becomes a member of the royal family.” The daughter of an view with the BBC she would be giving have a say in any of her future career workload, having shut down her lifestyle website, “The Tig,” African-American mother and white American father of Dutch up acting and would focus much of her “Markle is the choices and roles.” in recent months. Sarika Bose, a lecturer in Victorian litera- and Irish descent, Markle’s parents divorced when she was aged attention on the causes that are impor- ture at the University of British Columbia and a royal expert, six. She has half-siblings on her father’s side, and grew up in Los tant to her. face of the Reform too far? said times had changed since Kelly was forced to choose Angeles, attending a girls’ Roman Catholic school there. After “I don’t see it as giving anything up. I “ But royal writer Catriona Harve- between career and family life. But she added that having a graduating from Northwestern University’s School of see it as a change. It’s a new chapter,” modern princess Jenner said in a commentary for British working actress in the fold may yet be a modernizing reform Communication in 2003, Markle appeared on more than a dozen she said. Markle and Harry, 33, will wed lifestyle magazine Cosmopolitan that too far for the British throne, which dates back to the merger TV shows including “CSI: NY” “Knight Rider” and “Fringe.” in spring next year, 62 years after silver Markle had made the right decision in of England and Scotland in the early 18th century. She became more high-profile when she began appearing screen icon Kelly abandoned her glitter- shedding her acting ambitions. “Being a in “Suits” and secured a small role in the movie “Horrible ing career to marry Monaco’s Prince senior member of the royal family is a ‘Very charismatic’ Bosses” (2011). Clarence Moye, TV editor at Awards Daily, Rainier III. Hollywood branding expert full-time job, and it requires those who “Although British society and the monarchy have changed described Markle as a “very charismatic” actress and said he Jeetendr Sehdev pointed out however that Markle is not in do it to patron charities, represent the UK on an internation- greatly over the last few decades, there are still possible was disappointed that she appeared to be set on conforming the same league as the Oscar-winning star of 1950s al scale and generally maintain the traditions of the royal assumptions people might impose on Ms Markle which are to tradition. “It would be interesting to see a modern woman Hitchcock thrillers “Dial M for Murder,” “Rear Window” and family,” said Harve-Jenner. “How would she balance all that conflated with her acting roles, her life as a celebrity and her continuing her career... but it’s not where she seems to be “To Catch a Thief.” “Americans who have heard of Meghan with a full-time acting role on ‘Suits?’” public role as a member of the royal family,” she told AFP. headed,” he said. — AFP Noor, Hayworth and other American women who married royalty This file photo taken on November 03, 2012 shows Britain’s Prince Harry (R) running out of the VHR (very high ready-ness) tent to scramble his Apache with fellow Pilots at the British controlled flight-line at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. — AFP photos Prince Harry: The once This combination of file pictures created on November 27, 2017 shows (L-R) a photo taken in 1946 of US actress Rita Hayworth, Queen Noor of Jordan, US actress Meghan Markle, portrait dated 1930’s of American-born Wallis Simpson and Princess Grace of Monaco in her garden at home in June 1981 in Paris. — AFP troubled playboy grows up S actress Meghan Markle, who is to wed Britain’s Mohammed-in 1949 after the breakup of her marriage to Prince Harry next year, will become the latest actor-director Orson Welles. Hayworth was born Margarita rince Harry, whose engagement to US actress fancy dress outfit appeared in the press. That was the year UAmerican to marry into a royal family. Here’s a brief Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, Meghan Markle was announced on Monday, has he entered the army, a conventional path for royal and one look at five other American women who became princesses to show business parents. After moving to Los Angeles as a Pbeen transformed in recent years from an angry that he later admitted “was the best escape I’ve ever had” or queens: teenager, she had bit parts in several movies before adopting young man into one of the British royal family’s greatest from the constant public attention. the screen name Rita Hayworth and going on to stardom. assets. The youngest son of Prince Charles and the late In 2008, he had to be pulled out of Afghanistan after a Grace Kelly Nicknamed the “Love Goddess” by Life magazine, she princess Diana, the 33-year-old has always struggled with news blackout about his deployment was breached, lead- Actress Grace Kelly was at the peak of a glittering appeared alongside Fred Astaire in the 1941 film “You’ll his role and for much of his youth seemed to want nothing ing to fears he would be targeted by the Taliban. But he Hollywood career when she gave it up to marry Prince Never Get Rich” and a host of other hits including “Gilda,” in more than to escape. returned in 2012, piloting Apache helicopters during a 20- Rainier III of Monaco in April 1956. Grace Patricia Kelly was which she performed a strip scene which was seen as scan- He spent 10 years in the British army, serving two tours week tour of duty-only to make headlines again when he born on November 12, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dalous at the time. In 1949, a pregnant Hayworth married Aly of duty in Afghanistan, but hit the headlines for his party- said his job was to take insurgents “out of the game”. the third of four children in a wealthy Irish-Catholic family. Khan. She gave birth to a daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga ing and his outspoken criticism of the media. The prince The blonde beauty made her film debut in 1951 in “Fourteen Khan, in December 1949. She divorced Aly Khan in 1953 has rebuilt his reputation in recent years, however, through Hours” and shot to fame the following year alongside Gary after a tumultuous marriage and went on to marry two more his charity work with veterans and in taking on more and Cooper in “High Noon.” times. Hayworth suffered from Alzheimer’s disease in her lat- more duties from his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II. She won an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting er years and died in New York in May 1987. He appears to have inherited his mother’s ability to Actress for “Mogambo” in 1953 and the Academy Award for connect with people, as well as her sense of mischief, and Best Actress the following year for “The Country Girl.” But Queen Noor with his brother Prince William and sister-in-law Kate Kelly is perhaps best known for her roles in three Alfred Jordan’s Queen Noor married King Hussein in 1978, have helped put a fresh face on the monarchy.

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