Meghan Markle Had Her Own British Secret Service Agent on the *Suits* Set
Meghan Markle’s fictional Suits father, Wendell Pierce, just dropped a fun anecdote about their time on the hit USA show together. His latest tidbit comes from an interview he did with Extra earlier this week, regarding the time period when Markle and Prince Harry were dating as she was filming Suits.
According to Pierce, the royal family actually hired a British secret service agent to watch over Markle as she worked on her last few episodes of the show. “I actually didn’t think it was real, then all of a sudden I turn around and there is a guy from MI5 on set every day,” Pierce explained with a laugh. However, the newfound attention and pseudo-bodyguard didn’t phase Markle, who still loved to hang and work with her Suits pals. (They were all invited to her wedding, if you needed clear-cut proof of that.) “The one thing that was clear [was that] she was extremely happy. She had a glow. I knew she was in love,” Pierce continued. “With the whirlwind of publicity and the world of being a royal now, the one thing that’s constant is the fact that I know she loves him.”
For added security, Markle’s name reportedly also had to be removed from scripts and filming pages, in the event her schedule would be leaked to the press. This likely came after Prince Harry issued an official statement confirming Markle as his girlfriend for the first time, in which he criticized a “wave of abuse and harassment” she faced from the “outright sexism and racism of social media trolls.” He also “worried” about her safety in Toronto, where Suits films.
Pierce previously divulged how Markle told him in private about her then-boyfriend Prince Harry: The duo used code words to talk about him. “She met this nice guy and we always talked about him in code, really. You know, ‘How you doing?’ ‘Oh, I’m going to London, coming from London, whatever,'” he said. “It was just she and I in the room and I said, ‘I know your life is going to change but always know, no matter where you are, I will always be your loving fake father.'”
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