Meghan returns to Jamaica 13 years after her beachfront marriage ceremony
- Meghan wed Trevor Engelson at Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios in September 2011
- Duchess and Prince Harry had been in Kingston final evening for One Love premiere
Meghan Markle has returned to Jamaica 13 years after marrying her first husband Trevor Engelson in a lavish beachfront ceremony at an opulent resort resort.
The Duchess of Sussex, who was a 30-year-old tv actress on the time, wed Trevor Engelson, a Hollywood producer 4 years her senior, in September 2011.
They held the marriage at Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios for 100 visitors – together with actors from the Suits solid – who had been provided with get together luggage containing hashish joints.
About 50 miles away on the opposite aspect of Jamaica, Meghan and her second husband Prince Harry – whom she married at Windsor Castle in May 2018 – appeared on the Carib Theatre in Kingston final evening for a movie premiere honouring Bob Marley.
Harry and Meghan had been seen with Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness on the screening of ‘Bob Marley: One Love’, which celebrates the late reggae singer’s life.
The Duchess additionally visited Jamaica in March 2017, when she and Harry attended the marriage of the Duke’s pal Tom ‘Skippy’ Inskip to Lara Hughes-Young.
Meghan Markle and Trevor Engelson at their marriage ceremony in September 2011 in Ocho Rios, Jamaica
A bikini-clad Meghan by a desk of drinks at her marriage ceremony to Trevor Engelson in Jamaica in 2011
As for Meghan and Mr Engelson, they’d been collectively for about 9 years when he proposed – and she or he had simply landed her first large TV function, as Rachel Zane in Suits.
Before flying to Jamaica, they had been legally married on the Beverly Hills courthouse in California, with the ceremony at Jamaica Inn a blessing slightly than a proper marriage ceremony.
The couple – who met in a Hollywood bar in 2004 – selected the situation having spent a romantic break on the resort earlier on of their relationship, whereas Meghan had additionally been on vacation there as a baby along with her mom Doria Ragland.
Jamaica Inn can be the place Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller went on honeymoon and was beforehand visited by James Bond creator Ian Fleming, playwright Noel Coward, actor Errol Flynn and actress Katherine Hepburn.
Guests at Meghan’s marriage ceremony included actors from Suits, resembling Patrick J. Adams and Rick Hoffman, and mates and kinfolk of Mr Engelson, who travelled from Long Island in New York.
The couple booked out the complete resort after spending many months planning what one supply described as ‘a boozy seaside marriage ceremony with a magical backdrop… an epic weekend below the solar and stars’.
The inn’s high villa, priced at £1,200 an evening, was given to the bride and groom.
Other visitors had been housed in its 55 villas and rooms, the place they discovered a ‘tote’ bag crammed with souvenirs and trinkets, resembling sunscreen, lip-balm and Jamaican snacks.
Inside it was a smaller bag containing between three and 5 marijuana joints. These got to all of the attendees besides those that Meghan believed may disapprove.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on the crimson carpet premiere for the Bob Marley movie final evening
Harry and Meghan with Jamaica’s PM Andrew Holness and his spouse Juliet in Kingston final evening
The Duke and Duchess with Paramount boss Brian Robbins and his spouse Tracy James final evening
Harry and Meghan sit within the theatre in Kingston yesterday as they attend the movie premiere
The Duchess additionally gave visitors a inflexible schedule of occasions, which started with an off-the-cuff welcome dinner on the Friday.
This was adopted by seaside yoga with Ms Ragland on the Saturday morning then video games pitting members of Meghan’s get together towards Mr Engelson’s.
Meghan took half in a wheelbarrow race, whereas there was additionally a tug-of-war and consuming video games together with ‘beer ping-pong’.
The marriage ceremony day was Sunday, with visitors stress-free on the resort earlier than a sundown ceremony that noticed Meghan make an entrance to the sound of metal drums.
She then walked down a makeshift aisle to Cat Power’s music Sea Of Love.
The ceremony was interfaith and included some Jewish traditions, resembling serenading the couple with the people music Hava Nagila and carrying them aloft on chairs, in accordance with the faith adopted by Mr Engelson’s household.
This was then adopted by swimming within the sea with the revelry persevering with till dawn the next morning.
But the couple separated solely two years later in 2013 and divorced in August that 12 months, citing ‘irreconcilable variations’.
Trevor Engelson along with his now-wife Tracey Kurland at a Netflix screening in Hollywood in 2018
Meghan Markle and Trevor Engelson on the Anti-Defamation League Entertainment Industry Awards Dinner on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on October 11, 2011
Meghan and Trevor Engelson at a photograph exhibition in East Hampton, New York, in August 2006
According to a number of reviews, Meghan posted her marriage ceremony and engagement rings again to Engelson in Los Angeles.
Mr Engelson then married once more in 2019 to heiress Tracey Kurland, a dietician whose late father constructed up a $500million (£392million) fortune within the mortgage business earlier than his untimely demise from issues from Covid in 2021.
When he died, reviews within the US claimed Tracey inherited $250million (£196million).
Mr Engelson and Ms Kurland stay on a sprawling property in a rich Los Angeles enclave with their two younger daughter.
They additionally now co-host an annual a golf event in reminiscence of her father which has raised greater than one million {dollars}.
The pair tied the knot at a five-star seaside resort in May 2019 – sarcastically in Montecito, California, a brief distance from the £11million dwelling Meghan and Harry later purchased within the unique enclave.
