Meghan Markle
Meghan Markle attending an #HonorYourDays event at Reebok Headquarters in Canton, Massachusetts in April 2016 Darren McCollester/Getty/Reebok

She has reportedly been in a relationship with Prince Harry for five months. But it has now emerged that Meghan Markle may have favoured the redheaded royal over his older brother William for some time.

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The Suits actor participated in a rapid-fire interview with Hello! magazine in October 2015 in which she had to choose between Princes William and Harry after being put on the spot.

Hesitating at first in the video while deciding between the royal brothers, she said while laughing: "I don't know."

Markle, who was wearing a chic white blouse with her dark hair worn in a loose style in the footage, then quipped: "Harry? Sure!"

Markle's older half-sister, Samantha Grant, also revealed in a British newspaper interview earlier this month that the 35-year-old star has a penchant for redheaded men. She told The Sun: "Hollywood has changed her. I think her ambition is to become a princess. It was something she dreamed of as a girl when we watched the royals on TV.

"She always preferred Harry – she has a soft spot for gingers." She also told the newspaper that Markle was a "social climber".

But little did Markle know that she would go on to meet Harry a few months later – rumoured to be introduced by mutual friends Misha Nonoo and Alexander Gilkes – before getting into a serious relationship with the 32-year-old.

Just last week, the actress and humanitarian jetted over to the UK for just two days to spend time with her boyfriend. She was spotted on Kensington High Street – a stone's throw away from Kensington Palace – after doing a spot of shopping at Whole Foods wearing Harry's baseball cap.

|11.10.16|- Her staying with Harry in London is the clearest indication yet that the relationship between the divorcee and the fifth in line to the throne is 'serious'. And the timing of Miss Markle's visit is hugely significant, not least because it appears she was in the UK when Harry publicly declared his love for her. She is taking time off from filming her popular US television legal drama, Suits, to be with him, telling her producers she had 'something important' to do.  William is currently in residence as he undertakes official duties in London, meaning it is inevitable that the two will have been introduced. He is due to be joined by Kate to attend the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall tomorrow night, followed by the official ceremony at the Cenotaph on Sunday. Prince Charles is flying back from Bahrain today and will be in London over the weekend with his wife Camilla.  And, unusually, the Queen and Prince Philip will be in London for the next few days too. That means Harry could take the opportunity to introduce his girlfriend to his entire family.

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The new royal couple like to spend as little time apart as possible, since Markle's visit comes just days after Harry jetted to the Ontario capital to spend four days with his girlfriend of five months over Halloween.

A source told the Daily Express: "It was only a mini-break because she's got filming commitments. There's been a lot of talk of her being introduced to the Queen and Prince Charles but there simply hasn't been time."

While she was out shopping, Harry appeared solemn as he commemorated fallen soldiers at the Field of Remembrance outside Westminster Abbey with his grandfather, Prince Philip.

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