WHY HARRY AND MEGHAN WILL BE THE BEST ROYAL COUPLE
Just as Princess Diana broke down the stuffiest of royal traditions and conventions, her younger son -- and his new fiancée -- are modernizing the royal family all over again. Prince Harry's engagement to actress Meghan Markle is not the first to join a senior member of the British royal family with an American, nor with an American who has been married once before. The comparisons between their engagement and that of Edward VIII, who gave up the throne so he could marry divorced American Wallis Simpson, end there, however. What makes this royal couple different from any other around the British throne is the way Harry has -- with, it seems, the positive influence of Meghan -- broken out of the tight constraints of royal protocol to discuss grief, mental health and to share his searingly honest admission of not always wanting to be a prince. Harry and Meghan began dating 18 months ago, and so it is surely no coincidence that the prince's tran...