Prince Harry is courting American actress and Fits star Meghan Markle (pictured)
It has been a hell of a 12 months, hasn't it?
Syria imploding, Europe splintering, refugees struggling, ISIS horrifying, and the deaths of so many beloved celebrities from Muhammad Ali and Gene Wilder to David Bowie and Prince.
To not point out, relying in your view of him, the ascent of Donald Trump to Most Highly effective Man on Earth.
All of which has left many individuals feeling usually unsettled, and in want of a reassuring tonic.
Enter the British Monarchy, a much-maligned establishment however one that always gives a dependable dose of reassuring pleasure and happiness simply when the world wants it most.
Extra particularly, enter Prince Harry and his new girlfriend, American actress Meghan Markle.
The couple had been photographed collectively for the primary time yesterday, attending the hit play, The Curious Incident of the Canine within the Evening-Time, on the Gielgud Theatre in London's West Finish.
They wore matching beanies and regarded similar to another love-struck man and girl within the first flush of affection.
Just a few days in the past, they purchased a Christmas tree collectively and took it again to Harry's house in Kensington Palace.
Certainly the last word signal that it is a critical relationship?
I imply, you do not purchase a Christmas tree with somebody you are flaky about, proper?
So rumours, naturally, are ablaze that they might be about to announce their engagement.
To which I say: convey it on!
This isn't simply because I do know Ms Markle – we met for drinks in my native London pub within the very week she first dated Harry again in June – and imagine her to be good princess materials.
The couple (pictured) had been photographed collectively for the primary time yesterday, attending a theatre manufacturing of the hit comedy Peter Pan Goes Unsuitable
No, it is as a result of I feel they're fantastically properly suited, Harry must cool down (if even half the tales I hear about his wild partying are true then that is an pressing request…), and admittedly, all of us want a royal wedding ceremony to take the sting of those tumultuous occasions.
Anybody who's been watching The Crown on Netflix will admire the scrumptious irony of this case.
Prince Harry's solely No5 in line to the British throne by default – and it is all due to an American girl about the identical age as Meghan.
Precisely 80 years in the past this week, his nice, nice uncle Edward VIII abdicated as King as a result of he fell in love with a US-born divorcee named Wallis Simpson.
He couldn't marry her due to his place as head of the Church of England, which banned divorcees from remarrying in church if their ex spouses had been nonetheless alive.
Edward, subsequently, had to decide on between being King or being Wallis Simpson's third husband, and sensationally, he selected the latter choice.
His successor was his youthful brother George VI, who was then succeeded on his loss of life in 1952 by his daughter Elizabeth, who turned Queen Elizabeth II, the present Monarch.
Elizabeth's eldest son Prince Charles, her fast inheritor, has two sons, Princes William and Harry.
So if something, God forbid, occurs to Charles and William, and William's youngsters George and Charlotte, then Harry can be King.
And if Meghan Markle is his spouse, then, in that eventuality, she would change into Queen.
Think about that – an American divorcee turning into Queen of England!
But, what an amazing factor that might be too.
When their relationship was first revealed, the world's media went predictably nuts and Harry issued an indignant assertion telling everybody to again off his lady.
I understood his concern. In spite of everything, he misplaced his mom Diana to a automobile crash involving a chase with paparazzi.
He is additionally been by way of girlfriends like a scythe by way of a barley subject.
Most of them the standard sort of posh, polo-loving, and dare I say somewhat uninteresting English roses which can be normally fastidiously hand-picked for most popular royal associate standing.
Meghan Markle is a really totally different kettle of fish.
After we drank in my pub, I discovered her to be a really good, targeted, considerate, feisty and assured girl.
Formidable about her profession as an actress, sure. However there's nothing improper with that, and he or she's genuinely gifted as followers of her TV present Fits will know.
Just a few days in the past, they purchased a Christmas tree collectively and took it again to Harry's house in Kensington Palace (pictured)
Extra importantly, she appeared to have an actual and touching concern for the way forward for the planet and its extra impoverished and susceptible members.
We spoke about Rwanda, the place she had just lately travelled with the UN, about race points, and about gun violence in America, which distresses her virtually as a lot because it does me.
Meghan was knowledgeable and strident in her opinions and decided to make use of her celeb standing make an actual distinction.
She was additionally nice enjoyable, able to chortle at each the absurdity of life and herself.
I actually, actually appreciated her.
So once I later heard she and Harry had been courting, my intestine response was: GREAT!
And my response to all of the engagement chatter is precisely the identical.
There's by no means been a greater time for a British inheritor to the throne to decide on a historically imperfect divorcee to marry.
We have come a really good distance from the absurdity of Edward VII being forbidden to marry the love of his life.
And a good distance, too, from Princess Margaret, the present Queen's now deceased sister, being forbidden from marrying the love of HER life, the dashingly good-looking pilot Group Captain Peter Townsend, as a result of he too was divorced.
'Conscious of the Church's instructing that Christian marriage is indissoluble,' Margaret stated in her assertion saying the top of the connection, 'and acutely aware of my responsibility to the Commonwealth, I've resolved to place these concerns earlier than any others.'
Many assume she by no means actually recovered from this devastating blow.
What a tragic and ridiculous state of affairs.
Thank God we have all moved on to a extra tolerant society.
Since information of Harry's new romance broke, barely anybody has even prompt that Meghan's divorced standing needs to be a barrier to marriage.
And the way may they on condition that his dad divorced Diana, and, with the Queen's blessing, remarried Camilla Parker Bowles?
There's now no motive, authorized, spiritual, ethical or in any other case, to forestall Harry marrying Meghan Markle.
As for Meghan's suitability, think about this: she's lived life a bit, professionally and sexually, and isn't a naïve 19-year-old virgin like Diana.
She additionally is aware of the media sport, being a star already.
The American actress (pictured) was noticed purchasing in Kensington Excessive Avenue final month
And she or he has a correct job that permits for day trip to have royal infants.
Oh, and given the actual fact she's from blended race mother and father – her mum is African-American – there's an actual probability a few of these infants could be black.
Lastly, the Royal Household may have non-white members to extra precisely replicate the gloriously multi-cultural nation over which they reign.
Hurrah!
OK, OK, possibly I am getting forward of myself a bit right here.
But when I had been Harry, I might be popping the query fairly rattling sharpish – for 4 good causes:
a) He is unlikely to discover a higher bride to maintain him on his toes and be a complete lot greater than only a trophy royal spouse.
b) America, having almost wrecked the British Monarchy with Wallis Simpson, can now atone by offering a possible Queen worthy of world admiration not revulsion.
c) Each single marriage involving a British royal who's married an American (i.e. one, Edward's to Wallis) has lasted no less than 36 years – they lived very fortunately collectively till Edward died in 1972 - which is significantly longer than most fashionable royal marriages have lasted.
d) All of us want cheering up a bit and a royal wedding ceremony makes everybody smile.
So, and I say this with nice respect, get on with it Harry, it is your constitutional responsibility!
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