What Meghan Markle and a Redskins player have in common

Rachel Meghan Markle was born in 1981 to a Caucasian father and African American mother. She grew up in Los Angeles before graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in theater and international studies.

In 2002, she appeared in an episode of the daytime soap opera General Hospital. She has appeared in numerous television shows and movies since, most famously playing Rachel Zane on the long-running legal drama Suits.

She says that early in her career, she had difficulty finding roles because “I wasn’t black enough for the black roles and I wasn’t white enough for the white ones.” She called herself “the ethnic chameleon who couldn’t book a job.”

Now she has a job unlike any other: royal princess.

A surprising British royal

Meghan’s background is unusual for a member of the British royal family, to say the least. She was divorced in 2013. Some have speculated that she is Jewish, though others deny this claim. She attended a Catholic high school in California. She and Prince Harry have been living together for the last ten months.

Until recently, any of these facts would have made their engagement scandalous. But the times have changed.

The couple is already popular in Great Britain, in part because of their commitment to benevolent work. Princess Diana exposed her sons to suffering around the world, hoping they would join her in helping solve our most pressing problems. Prince Harry has made it his life mission to honor and build on his mother’s humanitarian legacy.

Meghan has served as a global ambassador for World Vision, a very effective evangelical Christian aid organization, traveling to Rwanda in 2016 and India earlier this year. She has also worked with the charity One Young World and is a women’s advocate for the United Nations.

In keeping with their passion for continuing Princess Diana’s humanitarian work, Prince Harry included two diamonds from his mother’s personal collection in Meghan’s engagement…