Meghan Markle is the latest star from the hit movie series The Grey’s Anatomy. Her character is Callie Whitmore, the strong-willed matriarch of a successful family who has struggled with her own identity issues since her arrival on Grey’s. She has always known that her English parents were not originally from Ireland, but by the time she was a toddler, everything about her personality and her relationship with them became very clear. However, it wasn’t until midway through her high school years that she finally realized what her true heritage was. This revelation would have an enormous impact on her personal identity, as well as on her path toward her marriage and potential career.
Markle is of Irish decent, but her biological parents were British. In turn, she has adopted a British identity and considered herself to be of Irish descent until she was sixteen years old, following the death of one of her Irish half-brothers. Once she came to understand that she was actually English, though, the true identity of Meghan Markle came into focus.
It is clear from the outset that Meghan Markle is not your typical American teenager. At such a young age, what does she really want out of life? Does she want to spend her life serving as an actress or waiting for her marriage to take place? If the answers to these questions are no, then her path through life may not have been one any woman could afford to follow. Her sudden, tragic death at only twenty-one years of age, following an accident in an auto accident on the freeway, only leaves the question as to whether she was perhaps already fulfilling her destiny.