She's the TV star who won the heart of the world's most eligible bachelor — Prince Harry. 
In this exclusive series we look at Meghan Markle's life before she became a likely princess-in-waiting. 
On Saturday, we revealed the truth about her broken home, her shock divorce and her steely ambition. 
Today, we examine her live-in affair with a celebrity chef — and her relentless rise up the social ladder...




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Teenage pals: Meghan, aged 14, with two of her younger neighbourhood friends in LA

‘She would often stay over at our house when her parents were working long hours, and she loved my husband.
‘She and Suzy sat beside Matt's bed for many hours, praying he would pull through.

He was permanently paralysed, but today he is working and enjoying life. We feel sure those prayers helped him survive.'
The caring way that Meghan reacted to this horror might help to explain how this very unlikely royal girlfriend — a 36-year-old American divorcee — has won Harry's trust.
Perhaps it was this side of her character that convinced him she may have the credentials to fulfil her duties as a future princess.
Her looks and talent apart, it has been suggested that Harry chose Meghan over more obvious potential wives (such as his former girlfriends Chelsy Davy and Cressida Bonas) because of character traits she shares with his mother.
Mrs Ardakani strongly agrees, and, intriguingly, she reveals that young Meghan was actually a great admirer of the late Princess of Wales.
For during the Nineties, when Meghan was growing up, Diana was a global, celebrity figure and she says Meghan came to regard her as a role model. 
‘I always loved Diana and I have her biography, which I gave Meghan to read,' she told me.

‘I videoed Diana's wedding back in 1981, and I would watch it with Suzy and Meghan all those years later. They would also see items about her on TV.


Meghan is a beautiful person with a very big heart — just the sort of qualities a princess needs.


 Sonia Ardakani


‘The girls didn't just think she was glamorous.

They were impressed by her humanitarian work, and they started following her example. 
They would collect clothes and toys for less privileged children and help at the homeless soup-kitchen.
‘I'm sure Diana would have behaved just the same way as Meghan did when my husband was shot.
‘Meghan is a beautiful person with a very big heart — just the sort of qualities a princess needs.'
Many other people I have spoken to for this series concur.
Kind, sensitive, loyal, funny, clever, compassionate, socially aware .

. . these are some of the adjectives used to describe her. But, like Diana, this possible princess-in-waiting is not without her flaws.
Those who have worked with her say she can be a diva (like most other successful TV actresses, no doubt).

And since her success in Suits, she has become a ‘world-class networker', as one acquaintance puts it. She can also be virtuous, almost to the point of piety, forever beating the drum for some trendy new health fad, environmental concern, or worthy cause.
In a blog she once described herself — one hopes with tongue in cheek — as a ‘saintly' hippy.
So how did this freewheeling young woman meet an HRH and capture his heart?

This has been a topic of much speculation since their relationship became public in October 2016.





On stage: Meghan (ringed) skips while performing in a school play in her younger days



‘Never grandiose but quietly confident,' is how he is described by Candice Best, a Toronto PR, who has known him a long time.
The self-taught Vitiello, who started cooking in his parents' kitchen when he was 15, combines ‘swagger with substance', she adds.

Vitiello played down his celebrity with becoming modesty: ‘There's no downside to being a well-known chef. There are thousands of great cooks in the city, and there are chefs who are more deserving of the celebrity than myself,' he told Toronto Life.
He was clearly smitten — and hugely impressed when Meghan was made an ambassador for the international children's aid charity World Vision while they were going out together.
‘So proud of my lady @meghanmarkle being named Global Ambassador for @worldvision #worldwaterday,' he tweeted.
For her part, she revelled in the domestic harmony the relationship provided.
They moved into the smart townhouse where she lived under the name Meghan Engelson, close to a park where they walked Guy and Bogart.
Meghan's live-in relationship with Vitiello lasted for two years, and there was talk of a possible engagement.

Then, last spring, somewhat abruptly, they split up.
That has led some insiders to surmise they were still together when she met Prince Harry, and that her attraction to him caused the break-up.
Whatever the reason they parted, the upwardly mobile Meghan was soon slipping away from the Suits studios for trysts with Harry.

The cast was sworn to secrecy, but inevitably the news got out, and at first she struggled to cope with the pressure.
‘I talked to her a few months ago [when the romance was first reported] and she was like: "This is crazy. This is so overwhelming," ' says her Suits colleague Max Topplin.
Like others who know her, though, he has no doubt that Meghan will quickly adjust to life under the microscope.

‘This is like a whole new ball-park [but] she is an actress. This is what she signed up for,' he says.
Meghan has supported a charity that Topplin set up, to help disaster victims in Haiti, and he says he feels sure she will use her royal status for the public good.
Indeed, some believe she has already exercised her influence — by encouraging Harry to speak out, earlier this year, about his struggle with depression following his mother's death and his decision to seek therapy.
Her half-brother, Thomas Jr, is among those who thinks she might have had a hand in his decision — saying that Meghan has personal experience of her father's struggles and low moods since his retirement.
In his heyday, Thomas Markle Sr was an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer who worked on major TV shows such as General Hospital and Married With Children, and was chosen to oversee the lighting for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 1986 Oscar ceremony.
He worked ferociously long hours — Meghan credits him with instilling her work ethic — but mingled with the biggest stars and took huge pride and satisfaction from his job.
Today, aged 72, he lives a lonely existence, retaining a poky apartment in Los Angeles, but spending most of his time among fellow American retirees in the Mexican resort of Rosarito Beach, where he rents a modest house.
Since he and Meghan's mother, Doria, were divorced, he has never settled down with another woman, and, according to his son, he spends his days of leisure by taking photographs, drinking coffee and eating junk food in the shopping mall (his weight has ballooned to more than 20st) and pootling about in his battered old truck.
Added to this, he has suffered a series of personal setbacks.
He lost his mother, Doris, a few years ago, after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
He and Meghan would visit her every weekend, in a nursing home, during her final months.
According to his son and his ex-wife, he also paid tens of thousands of dollars for his daughter — Meghan's half-sister — Samantha Grant, 52, who has multiple sclerosis, to receive stem-cell treatment (although she reportedly failed to follow the treatment programme).
According to Thomas Jr, his father claims he was ‘ripped-off' by a potential partner with whom he planned to set up a business selling trinkets.
All this might help to explain why a man who had earned a very good living in Hollywood filed for bankruptcy last year, stating that he was unable to repay relatively modest credit card debts of $30,000 (_23,000).
‘It's been hard for him,' says Thomas Jr.
It has to be said that his son has done little to alleviate his father's stress, by succumbing to alcoholism, and getting himself arrested, earlier this year, for pulling a gun on his girlfriend during a drunken row.
‘Dad's is not taking to retirement very well.

He has gone from one extreme to the other,' Thomas Jr tells me. ‘He has not only lost his work, he has lost his status, and his whole social circle. That takes a very big adjustment.'
Might he have confided in Meghan, to whom he remains extremely close?
‘My Dad is the strong silent type.

He has always pretty much kept himself to himself. There's no way in the world he would talk about it.'
However, he says, Meghan would surely be aware of her father's past difficulties, and the experience of seeing him suffer silently, without reaching out for help, might well have led to her to advise Harry to follow a different course.
Whatever the truth, Thomas Jr is certain of one thing: if and when the couple marry, his father will walk Meghan down the aisle.
‘Dad wouldn't miss it for anything.

He'll be the proudest man in the church,' he says.
Quite so. But who else might Meghan invite to the wedding? Find out tomorrow, when I reveal her extraordinary ancestry and some intriguing family members.
Additional reporting: John Kennedy in Toronto and Hugo Daniel
 





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