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[GingerPeach]

Today I'm watching 1944's National Velvet, with Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor.  Angela Lansbury played her older sister, Edwina.  Based on the book by Enid Bagnold, it was to have taken place in Sussex, England.

As Meghan Markle is now the Duchess of Sussex, I have to wonder if she is aware of this particular connection.

Last year the home where Ms. Bagnold wrote the book was on the market for almost 3 million English pounds.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4219590/Home-Enid-Bagnold-wrote-National-Velvet-sale.html

I like to keep QVC posters up on the latest trivia!  Cheerio!

[OKPrincess]

@GingerPeach Thanks for posting. I love trivia re royal wedding too. I saw National Velvet not too long ago.🐎

[SilleeMee]

Why would Markle have a connection to that movie other than where it was filmed?

[GSPgirl]

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@GingerPeach wrote:

Today I'm watching 1944's National Velvet, with Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor.  Angela Lansbury played her older sister, Edwina.  Based on the book by Enid Bagnold, it was to have taken place in Sussex, England.

As Meghan Markle is now the Duchess of Sussex, I have to wonder if she is aware of this particular connection.

Last year the home where Ms. Bagnold wrote the book was on the market for almost 3 million English pounds.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4219590/Home-Enid-Bagnold-wrote-National-Velvet-sale.html

I like to keep QVC posters up on the latest trivia!  Cheerio!

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Does she know where Sussex is?

[maestra]

I loved that movie as a child . ET will always be the face of Velvet.

[GingerPeach]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

Why would Markle have a connection to that movie other than where it was filmed?

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I don't understand your question.

Markle is now Duchess of Sussex.  National Velvet took place in Sussex.  That is the connection.  

I didn't say she had a connection to the movie.  I said Sussex was the connection.

[SilleeMee]

@GingerPeach the title of your thread says "National Velvet connection", not Sussex connection. Maybe you should change it.

Meghan is not connected to that movie at all. 

[GingerPeach]

Thank you, @SilleeMee, but the connection is that National Velvet was about a girl in Sussex, and the author Enid Bagnold lived in Sussex, and Meghan is now Duchess of Sussex.

That IS the connection.  

I didn't say she was involved with the movie; I said the connection between the movie and Meghan was Sussex.  I hope that is now clear.