8 ways Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have already broken with royal tradition

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30 November 2017 at 6:59 am

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have only just announced their engagement.

But already they are breaking free from royal protocol (the fact they packed on the PDA throughout their engagement photocall was just one example.)

As Prince Harry hinted in their engagement interview yesterday, marrying into royalty brings a certain amount of responsibility and a long list of formalities that each member of the royal family should adhere to. Or at least try to.

But, as many of these rules and regulations were brought in centuries ago, they don’t always fit with modern life.

So it’s not surprising that the newly engaged Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have already had a few rule bends.

Here’s every time they showed us that they don’t intend to play by the royal rulebook.

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