How did Prince Harry and Meghan Markle meet? How is the actress changing the face of the Royal family? How will they change her? As another American princess enters the British aristocracy, compare Meghan's story to other actresses and heiresses who crossed the Atlantic to marry into European nobility, such as Grace Kelly and Rita Hayworth. It's a modern royal fairytale that is as much about love as it is about the monarchy's new attitudes on class, race, acceptability, and tolerance.
Når Megan Markle den 19. maj gifter sig med prins Harry, følger hun i fodsporene på en række usædvanlige, amerikanske kvinder, der har krydset Atlanten for at gifte sig med europæiske kongelige. Rita Hayworth blev gift med Aly Khan og Grace Kelly med fyrst Rainier af Monaco. Som Wallis Simpson, for hvis skyld Edward VII opgav sin trone, er Megan Markle fraskilt. Men dette ægteskab viser, at den britiske kongefamilie har ændret holdning til klasse, etnisk baggrund og tolerance og intolerance.
