<p>Rachel Meghan Markle was born on August 4, 1981, at West Park Hospital in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California. Her parents divorced four years after they split when she was two years old. Meghan Markle's father, Thomas Markle Sr. (b. 1944), worked as a director of photography and lighting on the television series Married... with Children, and she frequently visited the set as a youngster.</p>

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