WHEN MEGHAN MARKLE AND PRINCE HARRY WERE SET UP BY A MUTUAL FRIEND ON A BLIND DATE IN JUNE 2016, LITTLE COULD THEY KNOW THAT JUST SIXTEEN MONTHS LATER THE RESULTING WHIRLWIND ROMANCE WOULD LEAD TO THEIR ENGAGEMENT IN NOVEMBER 2017 AND MARRIAGE IN MAY 2018. SINCE THEN, OUR FASCINATION WITH THE WOMAN WHO HAS SMASHED THE ROYAL MOULD HAS ROCKETED. SO DIFFERENT TO THOSE COY BRIDES OF RECENT HISTORY, MEGHAN IS CONFIDENT, CHARISMATIC AND POISED, HER WARM AND AFFECTIONATE ENGAGEMENT INTERVIEW A STARK CONTRAST TO THE STILTED AND COLD EXCHANGE BETWEEN PRINCE CHARLES AND LADY DIANA SPENCER