Before she married Prince Harry and became Duchess of Sussex in the British Royal Family, Meghan Markle was best known for playing Rachel Zane on Suits. The TV show originally aired on USA Network from 2011 to 2019, with Markle departing at the end of Season 7. Four years after its conclusion, Suits is back in the public consciousness thanks to a lot of Netflix subscribers streaming the first eight seasons over the last several months, so naturally series creator Aaron Korsh has been reflecting on this chapter of his professional life lately. That now includes him revealing the time that the Royal Family demanded one of Markle’s lines be cut from the show.
In an interview with THR, Korsh talked about how when Markle and Prince Harry were dating, this led to the British Royal Family weighing in on “some stuff” regarding Suits, and while there weren’t many instances of them chiming in with suggestions/requests, he nonetheless found this to be “a little irritating.” When the interviewer asked what kind of “things” Korsh was referring to, he answered:
