When Harry met Meghan: Britain's royal prince is engaged to 'Suits' actress

Britain's royal palace on November 27 announced that Prince Harry and 36-year-old 'Suits' actress Meghan Markle are engaged and will marry in the spring of 2018.

Britain's royal palace on November 27 announced that Prince Harry and 36-year-old 'Suits' actress Meghan Markle are engaged and will marry in the spring of 2018. The couple look so much in love in their latest pictures released after the announcement of t 

The announcement, which came from Prince Harry's father Prince Charles' office, says 36-year-old Markle has met Queen Elizabeth II, and Harry also has received the blessing of Markle's parents. | AP Photo

Meghan Markle's ring, which the prince himself designed, bore three glittering diamonds: a central stone from Botswana and two others from the collection of the Harry's mother, Princess Diana, who died in 1997. The ring is yellow gold, Markle's favourite. | AP Photo

Harry has been dating 36-year-old Markle since July 2016 and there has been increasing speculation of a wedding in the New Year ever since the actress moved her dogs to the UK from her Canadian home in Toronto. | AFP Photo

Just weeks into their relationship, Prince Harry invited Markle on a five-day trip to Botswana, New York Times reported. 'Then we were really by ourselves, which was crucial to me,' he said during an interview, following the announcement of their engagement. | AFP Photo

Markle a mixed-race American raised in California, an outspoken full-time actress, and a divorcee makes a surprising addition to Britain's monarchy. (Twitter Photo | @meghanmarkle)

The couple will live at Nottingham Cottage in London's Kensington Palace, where Harry's brother William and his pregnant wife Kate live with their two children. | AP Photo

Sources believe that when Prince Harry marries Markle this spring, he’ll be given the title of Duke of Sussex, which will make Meghan Duchess of Sussex, like to-be sister-in-law Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge. Neither of the women can be princesses in their own right.| AP Photo

This handout issued by Clarence House on Monday Nov. 27, 2017, shows the letter announcing the engagement between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. |AP Photo

Well wishers of the royal couple gathered outside Kensington Palace to celebrate the news. One of them told AFP: 'The royal family is too tight, too controlled, the older ones exist in the last century, they really need to modernise.' | AFP Photo

Town Crier Tony Appleton holds a scroll outside Green Park in central London near Buckingham Palace after it was announced that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to be engaged. Monday Nov. 27, 2017. | AP Photo

We wish the royal couple a lifetime of happiness. | AP Photo