LONDON – A *little less than a month before her royal wedding to Britain’sPrince Harry, Meghan Markle has said “I do” — on television.*
Markle fans who can’t wait until the actress walks down the aisle nextmonth can tune into the seventh season finale of the legal drama “Suits” —which sees Markle’s character Rachel tie the knot with Mike, played byPatrick J. Adams.
“I wanted to marry you from the second I met you,” Mike says in a previewof the episode, to air Wednesday.
“You are the husband I’ve always wanted,” Rachel says, marking a happyending for the two actors leaving the series.
“We know there’s another wedding on the horizon for Ms. Markle but justseeing her here in all of her bridal resplendence is a fairytale cometrue,” said the network USA, which airs the series, on its website.
The characters Mike and Rachel had already tried getting married in aprevious season — but police arrested the former and thwarted the nuptialplans.
Shortly after announcing her engagement to Prince Harry, the futureDuchess, 36, said she would leaving acting to focus on humanitarian work.
Her final appearance on “Suits” — in which she has starred since 2011 —will be a dress rehearsal of sorts for her big day on May 19, when she willmarry Prince Harry in a chapel inside Windsor Castle before 600 invitedguests.
Another 2,640 people will be welcomed onto the castle grounds.
American, mixed-race and “fiercely independent,” Markle is widely seen as abreath of fresh air for Britain’s royal family.
“I was born and raised in Los Angeles, a California girl who lives by theethos that most things can be cured with either yoga, the beach, or a fewavocados,” she once wrote.
She will be the second American to join the British monarchy aftersocialite Wallis Simpson — who married King Edward VIII after he abdicated,and like Markle had once divorced prior to marrying royalty. – Agencies