Meghan Markle

Long before she ever joined the Royal family, Meghan Markle played a prominent role in the legal drama Suits. Markle was on the show for seven seasons as Rachel Zane,  before she met and fell in love with her now-husband, Prince Harry. When he asked her to marry him, she had no problem giving up $450,000 a year to wed the man she loved.

She was granted an unconditional release from her contract in order to focus on her family. After some controversy surrounding certain members of the Royal family, Markle and Harry made the decision to disassociate themselves from the family entirely in 2020 and shared their reasons in an interview with Oprah in 2021.