“I remember my family first meeting her and being incredibly impressed. Some of them didn’t quite know what to do with themselves,” Harry said with a chuckle. “I think they were surprised. Maybe surprised that a ginger could land such a beautiful woman and such an intelligent woman.” Still, he added, “But the fact that I was dating an American actress was probably what clouded their judgment more than anything else at the beginning. ‘Oh she’s an American actress—this won’t last.’ " Markle agreed that as her and Harry’s relationship progressed and quickly became serious, “The actress thing was the biggest problem, funny enough.” “There is a big idea of what that looks like, from the U.K. standpoint,” she explained. “Hollywood. It was just very easy for them to typecast that.” Elsewhere in the documentary, Harry said he chose Markle with his “heart,” not his head—and that other men in the monarchy often chose their wives in order to fit the royal “mold,” not because they were in love. Next, check out the rest of the bombshell revelations from Harry & Meghan.
