Like many young women living in Los Angeles, Meghan Markle was always trying to get her big break and make it as a famous actress.
But like the vast majority of the thousands of wannabe starlets, she found the process far more difficult than first expected.
Despite going to private schools just around the corner from the Hollywood Walk of Fame and studying theatre at Northwestern University, the budding actress struggled.
In interviews since she has spoken about how she would drive a ‘beat up, hand-me-down Ford Explorer Sport’ from audition to audition for years trying desperately to get that one part that would make her a star.
But it was a hard road, especially when her car doors jammed shut, causing her to spend months climbing through the boot and clambering over the seats to the steering wheel because she couldn’t afford to get it fixed.
And the roles she managed to wrangle were not the most prestigious, as she often found herself…
