LONDON: The father of Meghan Markle said he hopes to walk his daughter down the aisle when the American actress marries Britain’s Prince Harry next year, saying he was delighted at news of their upcoming wedding, Britain’s Daily Mirror reported on Friday.
Harry, 33, Queen Elizabeth’s grandson and fifth-in-line to the British throne, and Markle, 36, announced last month they were engaged and will marry at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, a venue with associations with the British royal family going back centuries.
Asked if he would give his daughter away at the ceremony, Markle’s father Thomas said: “Yes. I’d love to.”
“I’m very pleased. I’m delighted,” the 73-year-old, a former lighting director for TV soaps and sitcoms, told the paper in Mexico where he now lives.
Markle’s parents are divorced and while Harry has met her mother Doria Ragland, who the prince described as “amazing,” he is yet to meet her father.
Harry, the younger son of heir-to-the throne Prince Charles and his first wife, Princess Diana, and Markle, who is a divorcee herself, met in July 2016 after they were introduced through a mutual friend.
The prince said he had fallen in love with the actress, best known for her leading role in US legal drama “Suits,” “incredibly quickly.” Last week, the couple undertook their first official appearance, drawing large crowds and global media interest.
Father of Prince Harry’s fiancee wants to walk her down the aisle
Father of Prince Harry’s fiancee wants to walk her down the aisle
Vietnam police find frozen tiger bodies, arrest two men
Vietnamese police have found two dead tigers inside freezers in a man’s basement, arresting him and another for illicit trade in the endangered animal, the force said Saturday.
The Southeast Asian country is a consumption hub and popular trading route for illegal animal products, including tiger bones which are used in traditional medicine.
Police in Thanh Hoa province, south of the capital Hanoi, said they had found the frozen bodies ot two adult tigers, weighing about 400 kilograms (882 pounds) in total, in the basement of 52-year-old man Hoang Dinh Dat.
In a statement posted online, police said the man told officers he had bought the animals for two billion dong ($77,000), identifying the seller as 31-year-old Nguyen Doan Son.
Both had been arrested earlier this week, police said.
According to the statement, the buyer had equipment to produce so-called tiger bone glue, a sticky substance believed to heal skeletal ailments.
Tigers used to roam Vietnam’s forests, but have now disappeared almost entirely.
