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Meghan Markle ticks almost every modern box. Let’s not pretend she’s a tough sell

2 December 2017

9:00 AM

2 December 2017

9:00 AM

We are congratulating ourselves and the royal family on overcoming prejudice by welcoming Meghan Markle’s engagement to Prince Harry. But in fact this welcome is cost-free: Ms Markle’s combination of Hollywood, mixed ethnicity, divorced parents, being divorced herself and being older than her fiancé ticks almost every modern box. It was harder, surely, for Kate Middleton.

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