Prince Harry-Meghan Markle Engagement: Actually Happening, Source Says

We know, we know – you’ve heard this one before.

Pretty much from the time the world first learned that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are dating, there have been rumors that a wedding is just around the corner.

At this point, it seems Harry has not yet proposed, but those closest to the couple say they expect him to pop the question any day now.

A royal source tells E! News that even Harry’s staff has been informed that an engagement will likely be announced in the months to come.

“It’s, of course, very serious and both Harry and Meghan are focused on the future,” the insider says.

“Engagement talk isn’t just between the two of them, even some of Harry’s closest aides are quietly expecting news before the end of the year.”

Of course, it may be along time before the couple announces that Harry has put a ring on it.

“She’s hoping that if this is something that happens they can keep the news private for a while before having to go public,”

But it’s looking more and more as though keeping the engagement a secret will be a virtual impossibility.

Already, Harry’s friends are being asked about the wedding, and the way some have talked about it, it seems as though it’s of when, not if.

“I don’t think I’m worried about the wedding. I’m worried about the after party,” said longtime pal Kirstie Ennis in a recent interview.

Asked specifically if Harry and Meghan are already engaged, Ennis declined to comment, further fueling rumors that a wedding will be taking place sooner, rather than later.

There have been reports in recent weeks that Harry and Meghan are having relationship problems, but that’s pretty much the norm with longtime celebrity couples.

There have also been rumors that Harry and Meghan plan to elope, but those also appear to be bogus.

The way it looks now, a Harkle wedding will be happing sometime in the next 18 months, and it’ll be a tradtional, lavish affair.

Many thought it would never happen, but it seems as though Harry is finally looking to settle down for good.

Our premature congrats go out to both the prince and his bride-to-be.

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Prince Harry & Meghan Markle: Is the Engagement Off?!

Ever since we first learned that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are dating, the couple has been inundated with engagement rumors.

Many have assumed that Harry has already popped the question, and the couple simply hasn’t made the announcement yet.

Now, however, it looks as though things might not be progressing as quickly – or as smoothly – as originally thought.

Sources close to the couple tell Life & Style that Harry and Meghan are stuck in a holding pattern – and she’s willing to call it quits if things don’t change soon.

“[He’s] playing it smart,” one insider tells the magazine.

“He’s being supportive while telling Meghan about the platform they would have to help millions of people around the world.”

Harry’s foot-dragging and excuses probably wouldn’t fly for most guys, but that’s one of the many reasons it’s good to be a prince.

But Meghan has reportedly made it clear that she doesn’t have the temperament of her famously patient future sister-in-law.

“Meghan has told Harry that she doesn’t want to be like Kate [Middleton],” says a different source. “She wants to keep hold of her identity.”

The indications that all is not well in Harry and Meghan’s world have been piling up for quite some time now.

We’ve heard rumors that Harry’s stepmother, Camilla Parker Bowles, disapproves of Meghan and has done everything in her power to bring an end to the relationship.

And that’s just one of the many stressors facing the fledgling couple.

Throw in the pressures of fame, royalty, and an inter-continental relationship, and it’s not hard to see why Harry and Meghan might be having issues.

As for whether or not the prince and the actress are still planning to tie the knot, it seems only time will tell.

Harry and Meghan have been tight-lipped about their relationship from the start, and we’re sure they’re in no hurry to respond to rumors of relationship trouble.

So if you were holding your breath for an announcement, you might want to exhale, as it looks like it’ll be a while.

Especially since Harry and Meghan might not even know themselves what the future holds for them as a couple.

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Patton Oswalt and Meredith Salenger Slam "Bitter Grub Worms," Gush Over Engagement

Patton Oswalt and Meredith Salenger aren’t about the let the stupid, insensitive, ignorant, angry and mean trolls on the Internet ruin their engagement.

Or, to use the comedian’s language, they aren’t about to let a bunch of “bitter grub words” affect their happiness these days.

Last week, Oswalt announced that he and Salenger were engaged, following a few months of dating.

The news came as a surprise to many, considering the stars had only just revealed their romance to the public by walking the red carpet of the Baby Driver premiere in Los Angeles.

It also came as a surprise because Oswalt tragically lost his wife, Michelle McNamara, last April.

At the age of 46, she died of an accidental prescription drug overdose, leaving Oswalt alone to raise their eight-year old daughter.

On many occasions since, Oswalt wrote gut-wrenching posts about his grief and pain and overall mental state; these posts were as raw and candid as it can get.

But Oswalt has managed to expand his heart and is willing to love once again, a development that is great for the mental health of the star and for the long-term well-being of his child.

However, it’s apparently unacceptable to idiots on the Internet who have managed to take Oswalt to task for daring to get engaged so soon after the death of his wife.

In a subsequent Facebook post, Oswalt doesn’t bother to engage these trolls on their immature level.

But it does acknowledge their criticism, while linking to a recent article by a widower who Oswalt says sums up his situation in perfect, heartwarming, emotional fashion.

“This is so amazing. And SO well-written,” Oswalt wrote of a post by a blogger named Erica Roman, adding:

“I expected some bitter grub worms to weigh in (anonymously, always always always) with their much-needed opinions when I announced my engagement last week.

“And I decided to ignore them.”

Concluded Oswalt, along with a link to the article in question:

But yeah, I felt this rage. And Erica articulated it better than I could have ever hoped. So there you go. Thank you, Erica.

Roman, who became a widow at the age of 27, blasted Oswalt’s critics in her viral post.

“You aren’t entitled to an opinion,” she says, explaining:

“You don’t get to comment on the choices of a widower while you sit happily next to your own living spouse. You didn’t have to stand and watch your mundane morning turn into your absolute worst nightmare.

“Go back to scrolling Facebook and keep your ignorance to yourself.”

As Oswalt notes: perfect.

Salenger, meanwhile, acknowledged that most people have been “lovely” to her and her famous fiance, but also linked to Roman’s article and wrote the following:

“I am grateful to be the one who helps him climb out of the depths of grief and find some joy again. And most of all… Alice is happy and feels loved,” wrote the actress, concluding:

“I have waited 47 years to find true love. Creating our family unit while honoring the brilliant gift Michelle has given me will be my life’s goal and happiness.

“I am deeply in love with both Patton and Alice and very much looking forward to a beautiful happy life having adventures together.”

Salenger is a Harvard-educated actress who starred in Disney’s The Journey of Natty Gan at the age of 15.

She has an array of television and movies credits on her resume, including Hollywood Heights, Lake Placid; and she has done voiceover work for cartoons such as Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

(Oswalt may be the universe’s foremost authority on all things Star Wars.)

We wish this couple nothing but the absolute best.

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Joseph Duggar-Kendra Caldwell Engagement Details: Which Duggar Sister Helped With the Proposal?

If you watched last night’s episode of Counting On, you know that it was a big season premiere for the Duggar clan, with two major events taking place over the course of one 24-hour period.

The festivities started with Joy-Anna Duggar marrying Austin Forsyth in one of the massively-attended ceremonies for which the family is known.

But we knew we’d be seeing Joy-Anna get hitched in the premiere. What happened at the reception came as something of a surprise:

The family announced several weeks ago that Joseph Duggar had gotten engaged to Kendra Caldwell, but we didn’t know that it happened at Joy-Anna’s reception.

Not only that, the bride herself participated in the surprise proposal, making for one of the more memorable moments in the many episodes of reality television the Duggars have produced.

The scene went something like this:

The crowd was assembled for what it thought would be the traditional tossing of the bouquet.

(And let’s face it, we were all holding our breath hoping the flowers would magically land directly in Jana’s hands.)

Then, Joy hit us with a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan.

Rather than throwing the bouquet in the air, Joy simply turned and handed the flowers to Kendra.

Joe then dropped to one knee and proposed to Kendra on the spot.

It was a high-risk maneuver, what with the whole thing taking place right in front of a massive crowd of friends and family.

Fortunately, the whole thing worked out in Joseph’s favor, and Kendra said yes.

It made for momentarily tense television, but in all honesty, Joe wasn’t really taking that big of a gamble.

After all, the Duggar courting process doesn’t leave much to chance.

Once a couple has been courting longer than a few weeks, it’s a very safe bet that they’re headed for the altar.

Sure, there are occasional breakups (see: The Strange Case of Josiah Duggar and Marjorie Jackson), but they’re few and far between.

So Joseph knew what he was doing and it worked out for everyone involved.

Of course, no one benefited as much as Jim Bob Duggar, who know gets to keep his family on TV for at least one more season with the promise of another wedding.

What’s the point in having so damn many kids if you’re not gonna cash in on them, right?

Watch Counting On online for more proposals and pregnancies.

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Meghan Markle: Mum on Suits Spoilers, Prince Harry Engagement

Meghan Markle stopped by Austin, Texas over the weekend and broke her silence on a major event set to take place this summer.

Indeed, fans can finally stop speculating and start making plans for August 30…

… because Suits will air its 100th episode on that date!

At last, right?!?

The actress sat for a panel discussion with other members of the Suits cast on Sunday at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, simply smiling and remaining quiet when a fan asked if she was going to marry Prince Harry.

Oh, right, there’s that, too:

Markle is very likely set to become a member of the Royal Family!

She attended Pippa Middleton’s wedding to James Matthews on May 20 and this promotional event for Suits marked the star’s first public appearance since that special occasion.

In honor of their 100th episode airing in late summer, Markle and colleagues did a reading of the show’s pilot script at the event in Texas.

At one point, Rick Hoffman joked that Markle ought to read her part with a British accent. HA!

Aside from this reference and the aforementioned, inappropriate audience question, however, Markle’s role in the Suits discussion remained strictly professional.

She didn’t reveal much about what her character of Rachel will be up to when the series returns in July, but she did take a moment to reminisce.

“We were in a group email the other day and I was saying we’d all lived in the same corporate housing,” Markle said on stage, elaborating as follows:

“So on top of working together, we were living together, which makes a whole different dynamic. We just became this whole family right out the gate.”

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s great. Whatever.

But it’s not Suits spoilers that most celebrity gossip fans care about.

It’s Engagement Spoilers.

Is Markle really going to marry Harry? When might the wedding take place? WHEN WILL THEY START HAVING BABIES?!?

Markle and Harry have been dating for about a year.

They kept their romance a secret through last summer, but then reporters got a hold of it in the fall and Kensington Palace even released a statement that ​corroborated the banging.

Through his reps at the time, Prince Harry admitted that he was dating Markle and told critics to basically shut the heck up.

Neither Harry nor Markle has spoken on their relationship since, but it’s clearly VERY serious.

With Markle turning 36 years old in August, many believe Harry will mark the occasion by getting down on one knee and asking for his girlfriend’s hand in marriage.

But an insider tells Radar Online that the Royal Hunk has something more modest planned at the moment:

He’s going to buy her a sports car worth approximately $ 35,000.

“Harry is convinced this is a great gift for Meg,” the source explains. “She’ll be able to nip around London, yet stay fairly anonymous.”

Yes, Markle is expected to move full-time to Great Britain in the coming months, fueling talk of an engagement.

Harry is supposedly in the market for a home the lovebirds can share together as they start their new life.

“He wants a relaxed country pad he can retreat to at weekends to join his wife and kids, entertain his mates and live a normal life,” a second insider says.

We’ll keep readers apprised of this couple’s progress over the summer.

For now, Markle simply said over the weekend that she’s “so happy,” but she said it about the progression Rachel has made on Suits.

We don’t really care about that.

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Prince Harry-Meghan Markle Engagement Announcement: Actually on the Way?!

On Saturday, Pippa Middleton married James Matthews in a relatively low-key (by semi-royal standards) ceremony in Berkshire County.

Leading up to the nuptials, there was a considerable amount of debate as to whether Pippa should invite Meghan Markle to her wedding.

Some believed extending an invite would be a lovely way to make Meghan feel welcome in her strange new world.

Others contended that Meghan would overshadow Pippa on what was to her big day.

Ultimately, a compromise was reached and it was decided (and probably decreed by a dude with a flugelhorn and a parchment) that Meghan would attend the reception, but not the ceremony.

There. Now that all that Pippa business is over with, we can get back to obsessing over what the British tabloid media is really interested in these days:

We’re talking, of course, about the question of when Harry will propose to Meghan.

Yes, we’re gone from “if” to “when” on this one, folks.

At this point, there’s no question that this is Harry’s most serious relationship to date, and it seems putting a royal ring on it is a foregone conclusion.

According to People magazine, those who had been holding onto lingering doubts that Harry was in it for the long haul stood corrected after witnessing the couple’s behavior at Pippa’s reception.

“Harry was being the perfect gentleman with Meghan,” one onlooker tells the mag.

“He wants her to acclimatize to it all. It’s such a whole different world to move into — there’s so much to get used to.”

Even the former skeptics are now on board with the idea that we’ll be seeing another royal wedding in the near future, but it might be a while before Harry pops the question.

Naturally, there’s no shortage of rumors as to why he’s holding off.

Some say he wants to wait for the dust to settle from Pippa’s wedding, so as not to steal her thunder.

Others say Harry is waiting on the Queen’s permission to propose.

But hey, maybe he’s just following in the family footsteps and planning to make Meghan wait so long that she becomes an international punchline.

‘Tis a grand tradition.

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Maci Bookout: Why Did She Keep Ryan Edwards" Engagement a Secret From Her Son?

Teen Mom: OG viewers were treated to a double dose this week, as MTV hit fans with new episodes on consecutive nights.

On Sunday night, fans finally got to see Ryan Edwards propose to Mackenzie Standifer.

On last night’s episode, we got to see Maci Bookout’s reaction to the news that her baby daddy is soon to be married.

Obviously, the Teen Mom franchise thrives on drama, but Maci decided to go off-brand by expressing genuine happiness for her ex and his new fiancee.

It was a refreshing change of pace for a series that’s historically been lacking in anything resembling emotional maturity.

Could it be that these moms and dads are starting to grow up now that their kids are old enough to recognize crazy behavior?

That may be true for the most part, but Farrah will always be Farrah, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Anyway, Maci received a lot of praise for her level-headed reaction to the news, but many wondered why she kept her ex’s engagement a secret from her son and Edwards’ Bentley:

Maci addressed that question (and explained her love for Mackenzie) in a recent interview:

“[Mackenzie] called me and told me, and Bentley was going to their house the next day,” Maci told MTV News.

“And she was super-excited when she called me. She told me not to tell Bentley because they planned to tell him in person the next day. It was a tough secret to keep because I wanted to be excited with him, but obviously, it wasn’t my place to tell him.”

Maci has nothing but kind words for her ex’s wife-to-be:

“They genuinely care about each other,” she explained. “They have a very healthy relationship.”

Maci went on to say:

“I think she’s very understanding and supportive of him — she’s a really good friend to him, but she also has enough of a ‘I’m not going to put up with your s**t attitude.’ It’s the perfect balance for what Ryan needs in a partner.”

With a laugh, she added, “I like her, so it has to be easier on him.”

Could we be on the verge of two Teen Mom couples successfully so-parenting?!

Watch Teen Mom: OG online to relive Maci and Ryan’s rocky relationship and ponder the many ways this could all go awry.

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Because they are big. Really big. So big that the shine coming off these items may cause temporary blindness.

Don"t say we didn"t warn you, okay?

But do go ahead and say what we"re all thinking upon seeing these giant rocks: HOLY $ HIT!!!!

1. Kate Upton

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2. Gabrielle Union

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3. Kaley Cuoco

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4. Kim Kardashian

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5. Avril Lavigne

Chad Kroeger proposed to Canadian Avril Lavigne with this 14-carat ring. But the couple’s marriage didn’t even last two years.

6. Halle Berry

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