Family of Prince Harry’s new love Meghan Markle says she is ‘thrilled by Royal date’ as pics emerge of US star as tot
Suits star's nephew Tyler Dooley says US actress plans to go to London to visit Royal when she wraps up filming in Canada
THE nephew of Prince Harry’s new love told yesterday of her joy — and her plans to visit him in London.
Tyler Dooley, who spoke to actress Meghan Markle just days ago, said: “You know how you can tell when someone really likes somebody by the excitement in their voice?
“All I can say is she is happy — she is very happy, and I am sure that is because of Harry.
“She seems very excited. She is going through a very positive phase of her life.
“She’s open about the relationship to her friends and her dad.
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“Meghan has mentioned Harry to me, but it is not something she is boasting about.
“I know Harry went over to Toronto where they hung out together. And of course she plans to go to London when she wraps up filming in Canada this month.
“They are going to find a way to see each other.”
Last week it emerged Meghan, 35, and Harry, 32, had been secretly dating for five months. Tyler confided their relationship was serious and said she had been was “stung” by claims she was a self-obsessed social climber.
All I can say is Meghan is very happy...she's told friends and dad about prince
Meghan’s half-sister Samantha, 51, said she had barely spoken to her since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2008. She claimed: “Meghan is selfish. Hollywood has changed her.”
But Tyler told The Sun on Sunday: “Meghan was hurt. She was stung by hearing the things my other aunt said about her.
“It left her shocked and concerned about her family. She could not believe it.”
Meghan stars in US legal drama Suits, hangs out with VIPs, writes a lifestyle blog and has spoken to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon as a UN Women’s Advocate. But Tyler, 24, insisted: “You cannot climb the social ladder on the backs of anybody else.
“If you are a star in a TV show, of course you are going to be exposed to producers and celebrities.
“It is not social climbing, it is Hollywood. It’s the entertainment business. She doesn’t stop working. When you are around all of these people of course you are going to network.”
Tyler, who works for a debt recovery company, went on: “She has an energy about her that you just can’t find. There is nobody like Meghan. In terms of women, she is the best you can get.
“We have completely different jobs in completely different towns and we still keep in touch because she is a quality person.”
Tyler grew up with Meghan in their Woodland Hills, California, and she often babysat him. Tyler recalled: “She was just like any other kid growing up. She was our aunt and she was our family.
“Meghan would babysit us monthly and she would always take us to the park and the duck pond.
“She always had a knack for the limelight and Hollywood. But if people only knew how hard she worked, with what she came from . . . She didn’t have it like a lot of people have it.”
Meghan wed film producer Trevor Engelson in 2011 just as her career was taking off but they divorced in 2013 after she made frequent work trips to Toronto, where Suits is filmed. Tyler said: “Trevor is a big producer and has his own life. They both had their own careers and own life path and the chemistry was not there anymore.”
In 2014 newly-single Meghan hooked up with top Canadian chef Cory Vitiello, who runs a popular restaurant chain in Toronto.
They moved into a smart townhouse where she lived under the name Meghan Engelson in a posh suburb of the city, close to a park where they could walk dogs Guy and Bogart.
But their relationship ended in June this year — the month she first met Prince Harry.
Another source told The Sun On Sunday: “Cory announced in early July that they had broken up a few weeks before.
“He was living at a friend’s house, sleeping on the sofa. He did not mention that Prince Harry was involved and I think he would have done if he had been.
“The impression I got was that he thought she was acting like a diva. He felt she thought she was a bigger star than she was.”
Yesterday representatives for both Trevor, who lives in LA, and for Cory declined to comment.
Meghan has spoken to her TV lighting director dad Tom, 72, about her new man, as well as Tyler, who lives in the small city of Grants Pass, 2,500 miles away in Oregon.
Tyler said Tom was “extremely proud” of his daughter and “happy” she was with Harry.
He continued: “I was first told by my dad, and that was a few months ago. I was a little bit shocked — it is royalty!
“I think Harry comes from a good family and he is a pretty grounded guy. He is pretty adventurous and that runs in our family.
“If you have chemistry, you have chemistry.
“Meghan just wants somebody genuine and I think Harry is attracted by what type of person she is. She asks about my dad, brother, grandpa, mum. We talk about family things.
“She is real, she’s not fake or in it for money. She wants someone with chemistry and I guess that someone is Harry.”
Tyler believes Meghan would be the perfect addition to the Royal Family.
He said: “She would make a great princess. She doesn’t need the money.
“She has been in front of cameras for over ten years, she can deal with it. If I can see my aunt with anybody, it would be Prince Harry.”