1. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry met through one of his old friends. As the story goes, she's close friends with designer Misha Nono, who was married to Alexander Gilkes, one of Harry’s old school friends.
2. Meghan is not her birth name. She was born Rachel Meghan Markle.
3. Markle is of mixed ethnicities and was born to an African-American mother and a Dutch and Irish father.
4. She’s quite proud of her self-identification, too. In an essay for Elle, she wrote, "While my mixed heritage may have created a grey area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence, I have come to embrace that. To say who I am, to share where I’m from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident mixed-race woman.”
5. Unfortunately, her parents are divorced. Here she is at the Invictus Games with her mom, Doria Radlan.
6. Meghan got her big break playing a paralegal named Rachel Zane on Suits.
7. When it comes to wedding bells, she already has one marriage under her belt. In 2011, Markle married her boyfriend of seven years in Jamaica, but they separated two years later.
8. She once had her makeup done by Princess Diana's former makeup artist, Mary Greenwell, when she posed for the October 2017 cover of Vanity Fair.
9. Meghan was always on Prince Harry’s radar. In the Channel 4 documentary, When Harry Met Meghan, Harry told Katie Nicholl on a night out two years ago that his ideal woman was "Meghan Markle from Suits.”
10. In 2016, she became a World Vision Global Ambassador after traveling to Rwanda to help with a new clean water pipeline.
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12. Let’s not forget about the past though. Meghan was once a briefcase girl on Deal or No Deal. 
13. She has a half sister named Samantha, through her father’s first marriage. However, Samantha has criticized her in the press, accusing Meghan of mistreating their father.
14. She also has a half brother named Thomas Markle Jr., who has defended Meghan, according to Daily Mail. Still, Thomas has his share of troubles as he was previously arrested after he was accused of a "drunken altercation with his girlfriend.”
15. As per Daily Mail, Thomas Markle, Jr. revealed that their father had met Prince Harry in Toronto and offered his stamp of approval on the relationship.