Colegiul Național Pedagogic „Constantin Brătescu”

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Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and

Duchess of Sussex

ELEV: Mitu Elena-Mădălina

PROFESOR COORDONATOR: Radu Irina

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2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Argument…………………………………………………………3
Chapter I: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex...………………………4
1.1 Born and early life …………………………………………4
1.2 Military career ……………………………………………..5
1.3 Personal life………………………………………………...5
1.4 Marriage and fatherhood……………………………………6
Chapter II: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex………………………….7
2.1 Early life and education……………………………………..7
2.2 Acting career………………………………………………...7
2.3 Personal life…………………………………………………8
Chapter III: Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of
Sussex…………………………………………………………….9
3.1 Their life together ……………………………………………9
Bibliography ……………………………………………………..12

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 Argument
I chose to write about Prince Harry and Meghan because I respect them for the courage they
had when they decided to leave the royal family because of the bad words and the things they
were unjustly accused of. Despite the fact that many say that they are just pretending and
want to attract attention, these people seem to me to be sincere and fighters, fighting for them
and for their family.

Despite the pressure from the outside, Prince Harry and Meghan managed to build their own
lives as they wanted.

In addition to all this, the two did a lot of charity acts. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's
Archewell foundation brought in some huge donations during its first year of operation.

The charity released it is first impact report on Sunday, revealing that it has raised $13
million in the first year following its formation in early 2020 and has given away $3 million
to causes of particular importance to the two royals, including vaccine equity, supporting
women-owned small businesses, and aiding with Afghan and Ukrainian refugee relief centers
and resettlement. According to the report, that money has gone to providing 12.66 million
COVID-19 vaccines through their partnership with Global Citizen, helping resettle 174,497
refugees through their work with Operations Allies Welcome and Welcome.US, serving
50,000 meals to the hungry with World Central Kitchen, rescuing 7,468 individuals from
Afghanistan through a partnership with Human First Coalition, supporting 13 academic
fellows at the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at Harvard University, creating a guide on
“fostering positive masculinity,” and building a play space in Uvalde, Texas following the
school shooting there.

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 Chapter I: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

1.1 Born and early life

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, KCVO (Henry Charles Albert David; born 15 September
1984) is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger son of King Charles III and
Diana, Princess of Wales. He is fifth in the line of succession to the British throne.

Harry was educated at Wetherby School, Ludgrove School, and Eton College. He spent parts
of his gap year in Australia and Lesotho, then underwent officer training at the Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst. He was commissioned as a cornet into the Blues and Royals, serving
temporarily with his brother William and completed training as a troop leader. In 2007–2008,
he served for over ten weeks in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He returned to Afghanistan
for a 20-week deployment in 2012–2013 with the Army Air Corps. In June 2015, he resigned
from the army.

To encourage people to open up about their mental health issues, Harry, alongside his brother
and sister-in-law Catherine, initiated the mental health awareness campaign "Heads
Together" in April 2016.

Harry's parents divorced in 1996. His mother died in a car crash in Paris the following year.
Harry and William were staying with their father at Balmoral at the time, and the Prince of
Wales told his sons about their mother's death. At his mother's funeral, Harry, then aged 12,
accompanied his father, brother, paternal grandfather Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and
maternal uncle Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, in walking behind the funeral cortège from
Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey. Harry and his brother William inherited the "bulk"
of the £12.9 million left by their mother on their respective 30th birthdays, a figure that had
grown since her 1997 death to £10 million each in 2014. In 2014, Harry and William
inherited their mother's wedding dress along with many of her other personal possessions,
including dresses, diamond tiaras, jewels, letters, and paintings. The brothers also received
the original lyrics and score of "Candle in the Wind", by Bernie Taupin and Elton John, as
performed by John at Diana's funeral. In 2002, The Times reported that Harry would also
share with his brother a disbursement of £4.9 million from trust funds established by their
great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, on their respective 21st birthdays
and would share a disbursement of £8 million upon their respective 40th birthdays. It was
reported that Harry would inherit the bulk of the money left by the Queen Mother for the two

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brothers, as William is set to ascend to the throne, which will bring him additional financial
benefits.

1.2 Military career

Harry passed the Regular Commissions Board (RCB) in September 2004 and entered the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on 8 May 2005, where he was known as Officer Cadet
Wales, and joined Alamein Company. In April 2006, Harry completed his officer training and
was commissioned as a Cornet (second lieutenant) in the Blues and Royals, a regiment of the
Household Cavalry in the British Army. On 13 April 2008, when he reached two years'
seniority, Harry was
promoted to lieutenant.

The head of the British

army at the time, General
Sir Richard Dannatt, said
on 30 April 2007 that he
had personally decided
that Harry would serve
with his unit in Iraq as a
troop commander, and
Harry was scheduled for
deployment in May or
June 2007 to patrol the
Maysan Governorate. By 16 May, however, Dannatt announced that Harry would not serve in
Iraq; concerns included Harry being a high-value target (as several threats by various groups
had already been made against him) and the dangers the soldiers around him would face
should any attempt be made on his life or if he was captured. Clarence House made public
Harry's disappointment with the decision, though he said he would abide by it.

1.3 Personal Life

In his 2023 memoir Spare, Harry claims that he lost his virginity during a brief sexual
encounter at age 17 with an older horse-loving woman in a field behind a pub. The woman
was later reported to be Sasha Walpole, who is two years Harry's senior and previously
worked as a groom at Prince Charles's Highgrove estate.

Chelsy Davy, the daughter of Zimbabwean, South Africa-based businessman Charles Davy,
was referred to as Harry's girlfriend in an interview conducted for his 21st birthday, and
Harry said he "would love to tell everyone how amazing she is but once I start talking about
that, I have left myself open.... There is truth and there is lies and unfortunately I cannot get
the truth across."Davy was present when Harry received his Operational Service Medal for

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Afghanistan and also attended his graduation ceremony when he received his flying wings
from his father. In early 2009, it was reported the pair had parted ways after a relationship
that had lasted for five years.

In his 2023 memoir, Harry states that months after breaking up with Davy he was introduced
to Caroline Flack, whom he described as "funny", "sweet", and "cool". The two saw each
other for a while before press intrusion "tainted" their relationship "irredeemably".

1.4 Marriage and fatherhood

Further information: Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

In mid-2016, Prince Harry began a

relationship with American actress
Meghan Markle. According to the couple,
they first connected with each other via
Instagram, though they have also said that
they were set up on a blind date by a
mutual friend in July 2016. On 8
November, eight days after the
relationship was made public by the press,
the prince directed his communications
secretary to release a statement on his
behalf to express personal concern about
pejorative and false comments made
about his girlfriend by mainstream media
and internet trolls. In September 2017,
Prince Harry and Markle first appeared
together in public at the Invictus Games in Toronto. Their engagement was announced on 27
November 2017 by Harry's father Prince Charles. The announcement prompted generally
positive comments about having a mixed-race person as a member of the royal family,
especially in regard to Commonwealth countries with populations of blended or native
ancestry. On 19 May 2018, the marriage ceremony was held at St George's Chapel, Windsor
Castle. The couple later revealed in the 2021 television interview Oprah with Meghan and
Harry that, three days prior to the ceremony, they had privately exchanged vows in their
garden, in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. However, this earlier exchange of
vows was not an official religious or legally recognised marriage.

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 Chapter II: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

2.1 Early life and education

Rachel Meghan Markle was born on August 4, 1981, at West Park Hospital in Canoga Park,
Los Angeles, California, to Doria Ragland (born 1956), a make-up artist, and Thomas Markle
Sr. (born 1944), an Emmy Award winning television lighting director and director of
photography. She identifies as mixed race, often answering questions about her background
with "My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white."
Her parents separated when she was two years old and divorced four years later. She has a
close relationship with her mother.

Growing up in Los Angeles, Markle attended Hollywood Little Red Schoolhouse. Both her
parents contributed to raising her until the age of 9, after which her father was left in charge
of caring for her as her mother pursued a career. At age 11, she and her classmates wrote to
Procter & Gamble to gender-neutralize a dishwashing soap commercial on national
television. She was raised as a Protestant but graduated from L.A.'s Immaculate Heart High
School, an all-girl Catholic school. Markle took part in plays and musicals at the school,
where her father helped with lighting. During her teenage years, she worked at a local frozen
yogurt shop and later as a waitress and babysitter. She also volunteered at a soup kitchen in
Skid Row, Los Angeles. In 1999, she was admitted to Northwestern University in Evanston,
Illinois, where she joined Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. With other members of Kappa
Kappa Gamma, Markle did volunteer work with the Glass Slipper Project. After her junior
year, she secured an internship as a junior press officer at the American embassy in Buenos
Aires, with the help of her uncle Michael Markle, and considered a political career. However,
she did not score high enough in the Foreign Service Officer Test to proceed further with the
US State Department, and returned to. She also attended a study abroad program in Madrid.
In 2003, Markle earned her bachelor's degree with a double major in theater and international
studies from Northwestern's School of Communication.

2.2 Acting career

According to Markle, she had some difficulty getting roles early in her career due to being
"ethnically ambiguous" because "I wasn't black enough for the black roles and I wasn't white
enough for the white ones." To support herself between acting jobs, she worked as a freelance
calligrapher and taught bookbinding. Her first on-screen appearance was a small role as a
nurse in an episode of the daytime soap opera General Hospital, a show for which her father
served as a lighting director. Markle had small guest roles on the television shows Century
City (2004), The War at Home (2006) and CSI: NY (2006). For her role in Century City, she

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told the casting directors that she was a SAG-AFTRA member when she was not, but after
being cast, the employers were obliged to help her join the union according to the Taft–
Hartley Act. Markle also did several contract acting and modeling jobs. Between 2006 and
2007, she worked as a "briefcase girl" on 34 episodes of the US-version of the game show
Deal or No Deal. She appeared in Fox's series Fringe as Junior Agent Amy Jessup in the first
two episodes of its second season.

Markle appeared in small roles in the films

Get Him to the Greek, Remember Me
(produced by her then-partner Trevor
Engelson) and The Candidate in 2010 and
the film Horrible Bosses in 2011. She was
paid $187,000 for her role in Remember Me
and $171,429 for her role in the short film
The Candidate. In July 2011, she joined the
cast of the USA Network show Suits through
to late 2017 and the seventh season. Her
character, Rachel Zane, began as a paralegal
and eventually became an attorney. While
working on Suits, she lived for nine months
each year in Toronto. Fortune magazine
estimated that she was paid $50,000 per
episode, amounting to an equivalent annual
salary of $450,000.

2.3 Personal life

Markle and American film producer Trevor Engelson began dating in 2004. They were
married in Ocho Rios, Jamaica on August 16, 2011. They separated in July 2013 and
concluded a no-fault divorce in February 2014, citing irreconcilable differences. Markle's
subsequent live-in relationship with Canadian celebrity chef and restaurateur Cory Vitiello
ended in May 2016 after almost two years.

In mid-2016, Markle began a relationship with Prince Harry, a grandson of Queen Elizabeth
II. According to the couple, they first connected with each other via Instagram, though they
have also said that they were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend in July 2016. On
November 8, eight days after the relationship was made public by the press, the prince
directed his communications secretary to release a statement on his behalf to express personal
concern about pejorative and false comments made about his girlfriend by mainstream media
and internet trolls.

In preparation for the wedding, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, baptised Markle
and confirmed her in the Church of England on March 6, 2018. The private ceremony,
performed with water from the River Jordan, took place in the Chapel Royal at St James's
Palace. The marriage ceremony was held on May 19 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

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Her wedding dress was designed by Clare Waight Keller. Markle later revealed that there was
a private exchange of vows three days earlier, with the Archbishop of Canterbury in the
couple's garden. However, this private exchange of vows was not a legally recognized
marriage. It was reportedly agreed in advance that excess funds generated from the BBC
broadcast of the wedding ceremony would go to a charity chosen by the newlywed couple. In
April 2020, Feeding Britain (which provides food packages to families in food poverty) was
nominated to receive £90,000 from the BBC.

Chapter III: Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of

Sussex
3.1 Their life together
After months of speculation, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle finally announced their
engagement on November 27, 2017. The couple is "thrilled and happy" to be engaged, and
marked the news with a celebratory photoshoot and a formal interview.

In the months leading up to the wedding, Meghan has been introduced not only to the British
public, but also to life as a working royal, as she attends official events alongside her fiancé
Harry, all the while planning the wedding of the year.

Tens of millions of people from around the world tuned in to see the couple wedding
at Windsor Castle on May 19. They had high-profile guests like Oprah, David and Victoria
Beckham, and of course the royal family, but all eyes were on the bride, who wore a
stunning Givenchy gown for the ceremony and a chic halter Stella McCartney dress for the
reception at the Frogmore House .

On October 15, Kensington Palace announced that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were
expecting their first child. The announcement came as the couple landed in Australia for their
first joint royal tour. On May 6,
2019, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-
Windsor arrived! The baby boy is
now seventh in line for the
throne and he is the Queen and
Prince Philip's eighth great
grandchild. Harry's father, Prince
Charles and his stepmother, Camilla,
Duchess of Cornwall said that they

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are "delighted" with the royal baby's arrival, as did the Queen, Duke of Edinburgh, and
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

The Sussexes step back from their royal roles.

In January 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex first made it clear that they intended to step
back from their roles as working royals. After some negotiation, the Windsors agreed to let
them pursue their own private business arrangements, provided that the Sussexes cease using
the word "royal" in any professional branding.

Harry and Meghan officially transitioned to their new lives at the end of March 2020, after
returning briefly to the UK to undertake a final round of engagements. Subsequently, the duo
settled down with Archie in Santa Barbara, California. They've launched a number of projects
in the interim, including inking deals with Netflix and Spotify, and launching their new non-
profit, Archewell.

On Valentine's Day of 2021, Harry and Meghan revealed that they were expecting their
second child. “We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother. The Duke and
Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child,” a spokesperson for the
couple said. The duo also released a sweet portrait to celebrate the news. On Sunday, June 6,
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that their daughter was born at The Santa
Barbara Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California on Friday, June 4 at 11:40 a.m. The
Duke and Duchess of Sussex named their second born after her great grandmother, Queen
Elizabeth, whose family nickname is Lilibet, and her much beloved late grandmother the
Princess of Wales.

Royally kind! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have always been proponents of helping
their fellow man.

Charity has played a huge part in their relationship, both while they were senior members of
the British royal family and since they announced their decision to step back in January 2020.

Harry organized the first-ever Invictus Games in 2014, two years before he and
the Suits alum met, with the goal of raising money to support wounded, injured or sick
veterans while also allowing them to compete in various Paralympic-style sporting events. In
addition to raising funds, the Duke of Sussex hoped the games would inspire veterans and
non-veterans alike as it did him.

He continued to run the charity with Markle by his side while they were dating and after their
2018 wedding. The 2020 Invictus Games were postponed due to COVID-19, but the duke
said during a May webinar that the spirit of the games was alive and well.

The couple even made their wedding day about charity, selecting seven organizations to give
back to simply because they “represent a range of issues that they are passionate about,”
according to the royal family’s website. Those charities included the Children’s HIV
Association (CHIVA), Crisis, Myna Mahila Foundation, Scotty’s Little Soldiers,
StreetGames, Surfers Against Sewage and The Wilderness Foundation UK.

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After their wedding, they continued to work with organizations that aligned with causes close
to their hearts, including One Young World and World Vision. Harry and Meghan’s giving
didn’t stop just because they stepped back from their royal duties, however.

In fact, one of the first things the couple did after announcing their exit and moving abroad
was launch a nonprofit organization called Archewell.

In January 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex began rolling out their nonprofit
organization Archewell. At the time, the site featured a note from Harry and the California
native explaining their goal for the organization.

"I am my mother's son. And I am our son's mother. Together we bring you Archewell. We
believe in the best of humanity. Because we have seen the best of humanity. We have
experienced compassion and kindness, from our mothers and strangers alike," the message
read. "In the face of fear, struggle and pain, it can be easy to lose sight of this. Together, we
can choose courage, healing, and connection. Together, we can choose to put compassion in
action. We invite you to join us. As we work to build a better world, one act of compassion at
a time."

The site described Archewell as a nonprofit that "drives systematic cultural change across all
communities."

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 Bibliography:
 https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/prince-
harry-and-meghan-markles-charity-work-through-the-years/
 https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-51047186
 https://sussexroyal.com/
 https://www.hellomagazine.com/tags/prince-harry-and-meghan/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghan,_Duchess_of_Sussex
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex

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