{"id":133651,"date":"2017-11-27T15:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133651"},"modified":"2017-11-27T15:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:49:34","slug":"prince-harry-pops-the-question-she-says-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=133651","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry pops the question, she says “yes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"LONDON (AP) — Actress, humanitarian campaigner, lifestyle blogger — and, next spring, a royal.<\/p>\n

Palace officials announced Monday that Prince Harry is engaged to Meghan Markle, confirming months of rumors that the couple was close to tying the knot.<\/p>\n

Harry’s brother, Prince William, and his pregnant wife Kate welcomed Markle to the royal family.<\/p>\n

“We are very excited for Harry and Meghan,” they said in a statement. “It has been wonderful getting to know Meghan and to see how happy she and Harry are together.”<\/p>\n

The announcement means another grand royal wedding is in the offing — the first since William and and Kate married in 2011.<\/p>\n

In some ways, Markle — a mixed-race American raised in California, an outspoken full-time actress, and a divorcee — makes a surprising addition to Britain’s monarchy.<\/p>\n

But the institution has moved on with the times, and the romance between Markle and Harry — who has repeatedly stressed his wish to lead as “normal” a life as he could — has a decidedly unstuffy, modern feel to it.<\/p>\n

Markle, best known for her role as an ambitious paralegal in the hit U.S. legal drama “Suits,” surprised many when she shared her feelings for Harry in a September cover story for Vanity Fair. Asked about the media frenzy surrounding their courtship, the 36-year-old said: “At the end of the day I think it’s really simple … we’re two people who are really happy and in love.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) — Actress, humanitarian campaigner, lifestyle blogger — and, next spring, a royal. Palace officials announced Monday that Prince Harry is engaged to Meghan Markle, confirming months of rumors that the couple was close to tying the knot. Harry’s brother, Prince William, and his pregnant wife Kate welcomed Markle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133653,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133651\/revisions\/133653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}