Prince Harry's Meghan Markle Makeover

For anyone who paid attention to Prince Harry's twenties, the revelation that he wasn't exactly feeling duty-bound right out of the gate didn't come as a surprise.

"I spent many years kicking my heels and I didn't want to grow up," he told Newsweek in 2017. But, as he apparently noted several times during the interview, "I believe a leopard can change its spots."

While the core of the man Harry is today was of course always gestating within, the character the now 34-year-old royal has started to evince in more recent years—his new spots, if you will—do indeed show evidence of a certain determination to grow up that simply wasn't going to happen until he was ready.

And though this shift started to occur before he met the woman he was going to marry, it certainly accelerated once Meghan Markle entered his life.

By the time Harry's unprecedentedly in-depth interview with Newsweek was published, he had known Meghan for almost a year. The two met in July 2016 on a blind date facilitated by their mutual friend Violet von Westenholz, whom the prince has known since childhood and was close enough to confide in about his trouble finding real love.

Harry had at least two steady girlfriends over the years and certainly never seemed to want for female companionship, not to mention the line of women who would have gladly volunteered to date him was probably long enough to circle Kensington Palace twice. But it's even hard out there for a prince.

"Is he nice?" was all Meghan wanted to know when Violet suggested she go out with her eligible pal. 

And that wasn't a bad question, really. Is he nice?





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