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TV presenter Nick Ede, who says his friendship with the former “Suits” star started years before she had her sights set on the palace, claims that the pair didn’t realize they wouldn’t be known as “Hollywood royalty” when they moved across the pond to California. “I think they came in and thought that the number one people on the block and they’re not really,” Ede, who says he lost contact with Markle when she started dating the Duke of Sussex, told the Express. “They’re kind of quite far down really in that pecking order. And I think that’s been an...

On Wednesday, hundreds of years after revolutionaries made the case for the supremacy of the American system and decades after Hollywood began to beam its influence farther and wider than the British Empire ever did, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex swapped life in the British royal family for a multiyear deal with Netflix. The couple are writing a new chapter in the age-old American story of reinvention and self-determination by announcing that they are rejecting the British monarchy for the stuff of American dreams. They've decided they can have more power over their lives and influence over everyone else...

Meghan Markle's estranged half-brother has penned an extraordinary letter warning Prince Harry to call off the Royal wedding. Thomas Markle Jr, who shares the same father as the royal bride-to-be, says he has not seen his sister since 2011. 'This is the biggest mistake in royal wedding history,' Thomas Markle Jr wrote The 51-year-old, who shared his letter with In Touch magazine, wrote to Harry: "As more time passes to your royal wedding, it became very clear that this is the biggest mistake in royal wedding history.