Meghan Markle - 38: little-known and scandalous facts from the life of the Duchess
'05.08.2019'
Source: Woman.ru
4 August, the Duchess of Sussex Megan Markle, one of the most famous modern women, turned 38 years old. Think you know a lot about her? We thought so too!
She is probably the thinnest ankle of all the other, no less slender royal monarchs. From her youth, she straightens her hair and carefully monitors her appearance and style. That does not prevent her from considering herself a feminist and fighting for equal rights. At the same time, she does not mind spending evenings in the kitchen at the stove, but she is also well versed in modern music, wine and psychology. Megan Markle has been living in public for the third year, now and then decorating press lines from gloss to tabloids. It seems we all know about her. But how deceptive is this feeling!
Woman.ru collected files on this amazing woman. Even with a few small strokes, you can get a very vivid portrait. In the case of Megan, they swung at the large-format canvas from 38, according to the number of years, points. So, did you know that ...
1. When it was decided to shoot the third season of the series “Force Majeure” that glorified her, Megan made herself memento - Cartier watch, which, according to her, has long been watched. She chose a Tank Francaise model (about 200 thousand rubles) and ordered an engraving on the back: “M. M. from M. M. ". That is, from myself.
Here you have the paradox of modernity: no need to wait for a young prince or an old king to become rich and happy. It is necessary to work and please yourself on your own, and the prince will be at your slender legs as the little one. And yes, Cartier’s watch was once worn by her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana.
2. Signs that Megan Markle will intermarry with the Windsor, have appeared in her life since childhood. The first years in Los Angeles were held in Windsor hills - by the way, one of the most prosperous areas of the city. Mansions in the colonial style, lush gardens, well-groomed emerald lawns - beauty!
3. By the way, at the time, Megan’s mother, Doria Ragland, was often mistaken for babysitter charming girl with too light for mulatto skin. Such situations were not uncommon, but Doria, a social worker and yoga instructor, treated them philosophically and without offense.
4. Father Megan, or “dad Markl”as the press condescendingly calls this uncleaned, sullen gentleman, was once in good standing in Hollywood. There he was known as one of the best cameramen and lighting specialists. Thomas has not one, but two whole prestigious Emmy awards for his work on the record-breaker General Hospital (going from 1963 year to this, for a minute, a day). In 2002, he shot Megan in one episode of General Hospital. That is, her film career started with the father's patronage, as we would have said, “according to the cronyism.
Whatever was said, his daughter Markl provided a happy childhood - from the best private schools to any paid hobbies. Now he is officially declared bankrupt and alone copes with a barrage of negativity. Insiders claim that Megan and his father never lost touch.
5. We all could recognize her not as Markle, but as Megan ... Merkel! At the end of the 19 century, Megan’s ancestors after their father, having moved to America, as you may have guessed, from Germany (or, more precisely, from Alsace), beat their German surname with a new, American twist. And how interesting could be the official meetings with the German Chancellor! ..
6. Both Megan fans and her haters absolutely seriously discuss the so-called "Curse of the Markle family". Having studied the personal affairs of the relatives of the Duchess on the paternal side, the experts concluded: all Markles divorced twice and no longer play with the institution of marriage. One divorce in the life of Megan, as you know, has already been.
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7. Perhaps it was worth starting not with the last name, but with the first name. In fact, the name of the birthday girl Rachel Megan Markle. She did not complain to her name because her relatives and friends called her ... However, in the credits of her films over the past fifteen years you will not find a hint of this very “Rachel” - only Megan. At the court, by the way, they joke a long time ago that she somehow in a devilish way had a premonition that she would become a noble lady. Why? Because "the Duchess Rachel of Sussex" in English sounds frankly simple.
8. Let's go back to Rachel-Megan-schoolgirl. She studied in private Catholic schools for girls (an expensive pleasure), and after school, despite the parents' divorce, she often visited her father on the set. In the late eighties - early nineties, he worked as an operator in the cult series Married ... with Children. If this does not mean anything to you, it was from this project that the domestic series “Happy Together” was born. That is, before lunch, a young Catholic woman comprehended Latin and etiquette, and after that - jokes in the style of Gena Bukin. Hence, according to a particularly approximate, specific, “acute” sense of humor.
9. In 1992, at the age of 11, she did something that neither Sveta nor Dasha Bukin dreamed of. Seeing on TV advertising liquid soap with the words "Women across America are fighting with fat pots and pans", Megan was outraged. Fat into the fire was added by young sexist classmates, who said that there was a place for women in the kitchen, at the stove with the sink. Megan voiced her resentment to her father, and Thomas Markle offered to fight not with the boys, but with the system, and threw a valuable idea. Megan wrote a letter to Procter & Gamble with a request to change the word “women” to “people” in advertising. Copies were also sent to Hillary Clinton, human rights lawyer Gloria Allred, and TV presenter Linde Ellerby. Everyone answered her! At the request of the 11-year-old girl, the words in the advertising video were replaced, and Ellerby made a video with her, in which Markl advises in a touching, thin voice not to sit back and change what she doesn't like.
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10. Perhaps no star has such experience in yoga, like Megan. Looking at her mother, she began to study at the age of seven and has not ceased to this day. Markle travels everywhere with his rug.
11. About my love to travel The Duchess spread more than once and very eloquently. Now, of course, her destiny is private jets, security, private villas and other chalets. But once she adored the thrill - racing through bikes through the jungle of Vietnam, regattas in Croatia, tents in New Zealand, safaris in Africa.
12. In 1996, she went to prophetic journey to londonwhere she was photographed with her friend, sitting on the railing in front of Buckingham Palace. Megan was fifteen, Harry at that time was twelve. Do not be lazy to find this photo with the littered horizon and the palace on the web. Looking at a thin reed like Megan in black sabots in the fashion of that time, who would have thought that she would enter the palace from the main entrance.
13. Megan's favorite beauty product for all times - tea tree oil... Before there were helpers in her life, she always carried a tiny bottle with her. An excellent skin care product, it is also great for dealing with wounds in any jungle - from Asian to stone.
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14. The Duchess is not just beautiful, but outstanding handwriting - Calligraphy lessons in Catholic schools are not in vain. Already in adulthood, Megan decided to bring the skill to perfection and at the same time earn extra money. She took up calligraphy and started taking orders for the design of invitations. Big fish also came across her business networks! So, she signed cards for VIP clients of Dolce & Gabbana, and in 2005 she wrote by hand invitations for the stars to the wedding of Robin Thicke and Paula Patton. She even taught a little calligraphy at the Paper Source stationery store in Beverly Hills. So in preparation for the wedding of Harry and Megan (which cost, recall, 32 million pounds), purely theoretically, one could save on a calligrapher. But the bride's head was occupied with something completely different.
15. On the eve of her own wedding, Megan did a lot to amass a lot of ill-wishers: either she was very nervous, or she decided to put all the cards on the table right away. It all started with a tiarathat Queen Elizabeth personally chose for her. They say that Megan counted the jewelry made of platinum and diamonds, in which the great-grandmother of her future wife, Queen Mary, was married, too old-fashioned and wished to wear a certain tiara with emeralds ... The most fascinating part of this story is the diplomatic gambit of Elizabeth. She allegedly promised to think, but asked: is it really worth a divorced woman to stand in front of the altar in a veil? The incident was immediately exhausted.
16. Tiara is not all. It was rumored that Megan did not like very much, as it smelled in the old chapel of St. George, where the wedding was planned. Unwilling to accept the dust of the centuries (the chapel was built at the beginning of the 14 century), an enterprising American woman suggested to aromatize the air with special diffusers. Despite the support of Harry, who seems to never argue with his wife, this plan was decisively abandoned and asked the newlyweds not to be capricious.
17. There is one more bike, or profit - about how it was then, a few months before the wedding, when Kate Middleton was deeply pregnant, Megan brought her to tears. And where would you think? On fitting outfits for children who were supposed to participate in the ceremony. One of the little helpers of the bride and groom was invited to become Charlotte, who was not even three years old at that time, because of the dressing of her dress (which Megan was allegedly not satisfied with) and the fuss broke out. Are you ready to believe?
18. Megan has his effective way to sweeten any pill. She cooks cool. It is known for certain that even before the wedding, she began to buy off future nephews in the person of George and Charlotte with her own hand-made cookies. Sorry, with Kate Middleton such numbers do not pass.
19. Since we started talking about food, attention: Sauce recipe for pasta from Megan Markle. It's very simple, do not even have to write. Take a couple of small zucchini or zucchini (what you will find), pour water on it, throw a bouillon cube (again, which one is) and, bringing to a boil, simmer for three hours on slow fire. By Markle's assurances, it will seem to you that the paste to which you add the sauce is floating in butter - it will become so juicy and tender. In this case, a solid healthy lifestyles and a minimum of calories. Oh yeah, the Duchess herself calls this sauce “sexy sexually” - cute, right?
20. Before she met Harry, Megan discovered some kind of saltwho immediately became her favorite. It is about the so-called Maldon salt mined in the south-east of England. It is a large crystals that seem to explode on the tongue, and therefore serves as an ideal seasoning for salads. You probably will not be surprised to learn that it was the Maldonian salt that is officially delivered to the British royal court.
21. An offer of marriage from Harry, his future wife received a cozy autumn evening in 2017, when she stood at the stove in their apartment in Kensington Palace. She cooked her signature fried chicken. “Do you remember, I didn’t even let you finish and exclaimed:“ Can I say “yes” right now? ”“ This is how she herself described this episode to journalists.
22. We conclude the culinary block on a sad note. After the wedding at the behest of the Queen from the diet Megan Markle several products disappeared. The first candidate for departure was garlic, which asks for all the sexual pasta sauces, followed by all kinds of seafood - from lobster to mussels ... For a girl who adored Mediterranean cuisine, a serious loss. However, the queen knows better what her relatives should eat - so that without the risks of poisoning and strong smells.
23. Ok, garlic will never defile the light breath of Prince Harry's wife. But what is it fragrant? Everything is quite predictable: Megan is an old fan British brand Jo Malone... Her two favorite scents are Wild Bluebell and Wood Sage & Sea Salt.
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24. Ask where does this come from traction for all British? Megan you probably would have answered that this is fate. But the fact remains that she was always interested in the traditions and the men of Albion. All the friends with whom she abruptly cut off the relationship, meeting Harry, independently confirmed that after her divorce from her first husband she openly declared that she would like to meet with a British man.
25. Argued that at the time of acquaintance with Harry Markle was in a relationship, and very serious. She didn’t just meet, but lived with Corey Vitiello, a successful and very attractive chef from Toronto. The case, according to rumors, went to the wedding, as here, out of nowhere, appeared Prince Harry.
26. Relationship Megan Markle breaks off professionally - at one moment, without dramas, tantrums and showdowns. Former husband sent both rings with a courier, her friends just stopped responding without explanation. It is not surprising that the softest epithets that can be heard about her from the former are “calculating,” “upstart.”
27. Those same ex-girlfriends remember that Megan loved to read books about princess Diana so much so that she could quote entire chapters.
28. The closest friend Megan calls my mother Doriawho was her only relative in marriage to Harry.
29. Megan ventured to show her rebellious attitude towards tradition and protocol even before the wedding - during the announcement engagement to harry. At the photo toll in the garden of Kensington Palace, she appeared in a snow-white coat, but without tights, and this is at the end of November. Kate Middleton did not allow herself anything like that even in the heat.
30. Back in 2015, when discussing the style of her character Rachel Zane from Force Majeure, Megan admitted that she had endowed the fictional character with many of her qualities and clothing preferences. About the colors of Rachel’s outfits, she said: “I don’t know how it works, but to resist stress dark shades help me". Keep in mind when you see her in the next dark blue coat or dark green dress.
31. Megan Markle once acted as a designer and in the spring of 2016, together with the Canadian brand Reitmans, she released a collection of dresses at affordable prices. Most were versatile styles - from office to bar, but some were frankly elegant. Design is not over: Megan herself starred in an advertising campaign.
32. Despite feminist views voiced from childhood, Megan Markle was not averse to appear as an anonymous sexy beauty with a suitcase in game show Deal or No Deal on CNBC. 26 suitcases, next to each for a girl, in a suitcase from one cent to a million dollars, luck is tortured at random. Megan was standing by the suitcase number 24. As she herself recalled, there was never a million in her suitcase, but the pain had to endure in “these cheap hard shoes with ten-centimeter heels”.
33. And she lit up in the continuation "Beverly Hills, 90210" - And How! Her heroine named Wendy was one more thing. The first scene with her participation - an episode of, say, oral sex with one of the main characters. In car. In the parking lot in front of the school.
34. One of Megan's weaknesses has always been good makeup. Here are her three favorite products: Diorshow Iconic Mascara, Dior, Foundation Foundation Foundation, Make Up For Ever, and Nars Orgasm Blush. However, Megan never disdained budget make-up tools and even pushed her acquaintances on them. So, with her light hand in beautician many of her surroundings appeared mascara Lash Sensational from Maybelline NY.
35. A birthday girl from her youth had a very good habit. She is not exactly chasing after two hares, but always and in everything. had a plan B. At the university, she, for example, had a double specialization - acting and international relations. Megan says: “I didn’t want to look like a typical girl from Los Angeles who wants to act in films”. Politics has always interested her, and something tells us, she would have succeeded there.
36. At the university in the framework of educational practice she spent five months at the US embassy in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. The South American country was in the midst of an economic crisis, and Paul O'Neill, the American Secretary of the Treasury, was constantly flying there. Taking this opportunity, the young intern got a useful acquaintance.
37. The next plan B, which Megan implemented, already becoming an actress, - blogging She founded her own resource called Tig (in honor of her favorite Tuscan red wine Tignanello). There she broadcast about personal preferences in various fields and published reviews of everything from films to restaurants. It turned out a cute life-style site that had every chance to promote itself, if not for Harry ... Do not be a duchess blogger! The content of the resource was completely removed from the Web as soon as the novel began to take a serious turn.
38. One of the jewelry that Megan continues to wear so far is a simple one. silver bracelet with figures elephants. Harry gave it to her at the very beginning of their affair, when both flew to Botswana, where the prince participated in special programs for the protection of these animals.
