When? Meghan Markle and Prince Harry When they first started dating, members of the royal family are said to have been skeptical of the relationship – and it seems one of their main objections was the fact that Meghan was divorced.
Yes, that was long before she met Harry and became the Duchess of Sussex. Meghan was married to a man named Trevor Engelson,
Of course, this is not a chapter of her life that she talks much about these days.
And with good reason.
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After all, Meghan is now a married mother of two, and her brief marriage to Engelson ended a long time ago.
But the British tabloid press loves to highlight the ways in which Meghan is not your traditional royal.
And so, her divorce is still mentioned quite frequently in anti-Sussex corners of the internet. This, despite the fact that there was nothing particularly reprehensible about Meghan’s first marriage, or the circumstances in which it ended.
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Meghan Markle’s divorce from Trevor Engelson: Meet her first husband
Meghan and Trevor, a film producer, first met in 2004 and dated for seven years before marrying in 2011.
According to hello Magazine, the couple exchanged vows in front of about 100 guests in Jamaica.
In August 2013, after less than two years of marriage, Meghan and Trevor filed for divorceCiting “irreconcilable differences”.
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Some sources close to the couple have suggested that their relationship was a victim of geography:
Meghan was spending most of her year filming Suit While in Toronto, Trevor’s work keeps him tied to Los Angeles.
Whatever the case, it seems the split has worked out for everyone.
after dating for a while real housewives of new york city star Bethenny Frankel, Trevor married nutritionist Tracy Kurland. They have since welcomed two children together.
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And Meghan did pretty well for herself, too.
Of course, many Meghan critics can’t talk about the Duchess without mentioning the divorce.
Some haters think she and Harry will eventually go their separate ways. However, two vocal members of the anti-Meg press recently surprised followers by revealing that they believe the Sussexes will remains married.
Of course, these critics don’t believe this is a good thing.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: Made to last?
“The last thing Harry would want is a divorce,” royal biographer Tom Bower recently explained. Ok! magazineAdd:
“I’m sure he doesn’t want to come back to Britain.”
Journalist Angela Levin said in an interview, “She’s not going to break up with him.” gb news,
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“Of course, she won’t do that. Because if she does that, she loses a lot of people’s interest because that’s what they’re really interested in. And I think that’s sad.’
So yes, Bower and Levin aren’t exactly pro-Sussex. Yet, they can also see that a meghan and harry separated Very unlikely.
However, that doesn’t mean they and other members of the UK press will stop raising Meghan’s divorce at every opportunity.
Sadly, even after all these years it remains one of his favorite subjects.
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