All I knew about her was she was a bi-racial actress who married Queen Elizabeth's grandson Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. I was curious after all the publicity following their first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, in 2019, so did some checking and found she was an educated, talented, complex woman, with a strong interest in inequalities and social injustice in the world.
Her father was caucasian and a television director of photography and lighting in Los Angeles.
On her mother's side, she is descended from African Americans enslaved in Georgia.
She attended private schools in Los Angeles.
- At age 11, her successful campaign to get Procter & Gamble to change a national television commercial she viewed as sexist was profiled by Linda Ellerbee on Nick News
- She has a degree from Northwestern's School of Communication with a double major in theater and international studies.
- She served an internship at the American embassy in Buenos Aires, and studied for a semester in Madrid.
- She had some parts in movies, but is best know for her role on the network show Suits from 2011 to 2017.
According to a critique in The Irish Times, Markle "actively re-positioned" her character from ingénue to "the show's moral conscience" and gave viewers the unique portrayal of a daughter whose African-American father is in a position to help her career and advance her "desire to crack both racial and gender glass ceilings".
- She founded the lifestyle website The Tig, where she wrote about food, fashion, beauty, travel, and gender inequality, and profiled inspirational women.
- She is outspoken and opposed to Brexit
- Noam Chomsky's "Who Rules the World?", 2017 is on her recommended reading list.
- Markle and Harry marked International Women's Day in 2019 by attending an event in Birmingham hosted by the Stemettes.
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last updated 21 July 2019
