.... I really find it difficult to believe I know enough about them to believe Meghan is "someone willing and able to embrace him for himself"
Ummm, I am simply saying that from all the evidence I've seen and read, Meghan is a very supportive and caring person (there's documentation that she's been that way throughout her life in school and in her community growing up). Also, reportedly Harry was ready to settle down, and he had been a bit despondent about finding someone to marry. He had been turned down by two previous girlfriends, again according to reports. It is certainly true that he split up with those girlfriends, and there's reason to believe in both cases, the splits were precipitated by his girlfriends. We do know that both ladies (Chelsy and Cressida) wished to pursue career interests and they were unhappy with the 24/7 royal media attention, and especially with the photographers. Chelsy and Harry were quite young when they met. Harry was distracted by his military service and his general wild oats temptations, which was partly why he and Chelsy were on-again/ off-again over the course of their relationship. I have seen interviews in which Harry has visibly seemed subdued as
he spoke of looking for the right person 'willing to take on him and the royal firm.' And he also mentioned having been bored growing up attending royal dinner parties (these words came directly from his own mouth during an interview in which he was asked what such dinner parties were like for him growing up).
Harry has also spoken in interviews that are still on Youtube about wanting to settle down and about trying to be patient with the process. He said in one interview he gave in 2012, soon after he and Chelsy had split for good, that he hoped to find someone whom he could get to know in private and become friends with out of the public eye. Four years later, Harry got his wish, and then some. He learned from the experience of his relationships with Chelsy and Cressida that he needed to protect any future relationship from OTT media coverage. That's a huge reason why he stopped the outrageous tabloid slams of Meghan in the DF's tracks. Harry was having NONE of that. The press release was unprecedented, and that's why followers of this royal romance had the feeling Harry's relationship with Meghan was very serious. The press release is how the relationship was publicly confirmed after being kept secret for at least four months. Even after the press release, H&M stayed private and under the radar because Harry was determined to not allow the media to influence what happened between him and Meghan.
We know from their engagement interview how M&H met; how they were immediately attracted to each other and found that they shared passionate interests; how Harry convinced Meghan to visit him in Africa 'under the stars' for five days; how they committed to making a long distance relationship work. I've read Meghan's former Instagram posts and seen numerous interviews, read some of her fomer Tig writing and other articles she's written. All of these sources provide great insight into who Meghan is. Of course, from the sidelines it's impossible to know anyone in the public eye intimately. We don't even truly know ourselves or our family members as much as we think we do. But to the extent possible, there's enough out there about Meghan to be able to gain some sense of who she is as a person. I believe Meghan is a positive, upbeat person who is encouraging toward other people. She's also very smart, savvy, articulate, no-nonsense, self-aware, admittedly ambitious, and a go-getter. She's clearly tough and determined, as well as kind and generous. I'm not guessing about these attributes either. These qualities are all quite obvious from reading Meghan's Instagram, seeing her interviews, her posts on the fomer Tig website, comments by people who know her intimately, the engagement interview, the royal wedding itself and all of the public interactions we've witnessed between M&H. What we don't know for sure are the detailed personal flaws and intimate personal interactions that surely would include inevitable disagreements and tensions that obviously occur in all families and in all intimate couple relationships.
My hands-on reading, research, and viewing of available interviews and documentaries leads me to believe that Harry has found in Meghan someone who is willing and able to take on him and the royal firm. Harry said in 2012 that's what he was looking for in a partner. Meghan is not afraid of cameras, quite the opposite. And she's already 'ticked the box' on her acting career. She was willing to give up a lot to marry her prince and to take on the challenge of a completely new life in a new country. Harry and Meghan are clearly 'over-the-moon' about each other, and they have mutually expressed their eagerness to move forward together as husband and wife and as royal partners in effecting change, and in assisting youth in Britain and throughout the Commonwealth.