MEGHAN MARKLE had an interesting "claim to fame" before she made it in Hollywood herself - and then married a prince, of course - a biography about the Duchess has revealed.When Meghan was a struggling actress, she made ends meet with a variety of jobs while she attended as many auditions as she could.She worked as a hostess at a Beverly Hills restaurant and at a local shop, where she ran gift-wrapping classes.Finally, she used her calligraphy skills to earn some money on the side.It was this final job that snagged her a claim to fame – she wrote the envelopes for a famous wedding, according to the 2018 book ‘Meghan:
A Hollywood Princess’.In June 2005, singer Robin Thicke and actress Paula Patton tied the knot and Meghan wrote the envelopes for their wedding invites for them.Royal biographer Andrew Morton wrote: “While she waited for her close up, to pay the bills she was making ends meet as a hostess at a Beverly Hills restaurant, working at a local store where she taught classes on the art of gift-wrapping, and used her other skill – her impeccable handwriting – to earn decent money as a calligraphist.“She learnt the skill back at Immaculate Heart and, as she later commented: ‘I’ve always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.’.“At that time, her claim to fame was writing the envelopes for the June 2005 wedding of singer Robin Thicke and actor Paula Patton.”.Immaculate Heart was Meghan’s all-girls Catholic High School, where she first found herself as a star of the stage.Sadly, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton separated in 2013 and divorced in 2014.Meghan also had a relationship breakdown around the same time – with Trevor Engelson, who she met in 2004 and married in 2011.Meghan and the Hollywood producer and talent agent were together for nearly a decade, before they split and then divorced in 2013.Three years later, Meghan was set up on a blind date with Prince Harry and the rest is royal history.However, for years as an actress, Meghan struggled to get any work at all, and lived a “scratchy hand-to-mouth existence”.She had so little money at one point that when her car broke, she could not afford to fix it so had to climb into her car through the boot every time she wanted to drive anywhere.This is because the electric button that unlocked the doors to her Ford failed, but the boot used a different key.Mr Morton wrote: “Too broke to get her SUV repaired, Meghan repeated this routine for months: parking far away from other cars and waiting until the coast to clear, before emerging from the hatch, feigning that she was searching in the back of the car for a script or photos before climbing back inside.”.While they were not coming as quickly as she would have liked, Meghan was getting the odd acting job here and there.In the summer of 2005, she was booked for a role on the show Love Inc and, around thanksgiving, for a TV movie called Deceit, followed by a small role in the sitcom The War at Home.However, 2006 was “a bust” for both film and TV roles.
Her boyfriend at the time, Trevor, was also struggling, as his first movie producing – the family action film Zoom – was a complete flop.Branded “dull” and “laugh-free”, the film did appallingly both at the box office and in the ratings.Luckily, it was up from there for both of them – Meghan scored a more reliable role as a ‘briefcase girl’ on the TV game show Deal or No Deal, and Trevor had a big success in his 2007 film Licence to Wed.While Meghan is probably most famous for marrying Prince Harry, before she met Harry her claim to fame was for her role as Rachel Zane in the TV legal drama Suits from 2011.She was in the show for seven series and it has since carried on without her.However, before Suits or any other major TV role, Meghan’s closet link to fame was the woman who wrote those wedding envelopes.
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