Markle was not linked to Prince Harry when she was cast as a paralegal in the program in 2011, but by the time she departed in 2018, she was engaged and officially ready to become a Duchess.

The star confirmed her engagement to Harry in November 2017, shortly after the seventh season of Suits concluded.

The program ended in 2019, but after seeing an increase in admirers after it was introduced to Netflix, creator Aaron Korsh has pondered the show and how the ‘Meghan Markle effect’ may have played a role in its resurrection.

Korsh told The Hollywood Reporter that he was ‘as delighted in certain ways as everybody else’ when he learned about his cast member’s royal beau.

He went on to suggest that the connection had an influence on the series, stating, “Yeah! I mean, your first thought is, ‘We’re dating a royal!’

“But because we shot in Toronto and the writers’ room was in Los Angeles, other people had to deal with the security and all that stuff.”

“I’ll say—and I believe Harry put this in the book because I heard people talking about it—that [the Royal Family] weighed in on some things.”

Korsh stated that the family was involved in “a few things that [showrunners] wanted to do but couldn’t do.”

He said, “It was a little irritating.”

According to Korsh, one of the things they ‘couldn’t do’ was utilize a certain term in a line of speech.

“Look, I’ll just say what the line was,” he remembered. When my wife’s family discusses a potentially delicate matter, they use the term “poppycock.”

“Say you wanted to do something you knew your husband didn’t want to do, but you wanted to at least discuss it, and you wouldn’t hold him to anything he said; you’d be like, ‘It’s poppycock.'”

“So, in the episode, Mike and Rachel [Markle’s character] were going to have a thing, and as a nod to my in-laws, she was going to say, ‘My family would say poppycock.’ And the Royal Family did not want her to say it.”

It seemed benign enough, but Korsh explained why the Royal Family objected to it.

He believes the instruction came from the directing producer or Markle’s agent rather than the actor herself, and claims the Royal Family ‘didn’t want to put the word poppycock in [Markle’s] mouth’ because they were concerned about people cutting the clip down to just the last syllable.

Surprisingly, they appeared to be satisfied with the substitute term, as Korsh explained: “We had to change it to ‘bulls**t’ instead of ‘poppycock,’ and I did not like it because I’d told my in-laws that [poppycock] was going to be in the show.”

“There were maybe one or two more things, but I can’t remember.”

Korsh went on to say that he was aware the Royal Family had access to the scripts, but he had no idea how they obtained them.