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    What Meghan Markle Means for the Royal Family

    The 36-year-old American actress’s engagement to Prince Harry, announced on Monday, shows how much the British monarchy has changed.
    by Sophie Gilbert Nov 27, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: AP

    LONDON—To most families, Meghan Markle might seem like the ideal daughter-in-law. The American actor and humanitarian graduated from Northwestern with a double major in theater and international relations. She’s devoted to public service, acting as a global ambassador for World Vision and a United Nations advocate for women. And she has a distinctly entrepreneurial bent—until recently, Markle ran her own food and lifestyle website, thetig.com.

    The British monarchy, though, is not most families. So the announcement on Monday morning that Markle was engaged to Prince Harry, the younger son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, signifies more than just a wedding in the spring of 2018 and

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