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You can call me Al, call me A Follow @UnicornNebula Maybe this is actually a gift catalogue, sent by the Queen to Meghan Markle's Dad, and he gets to pick a "welcome to the family" gift? "i'll take an Oxford, please". #roya!wedding

cluedont @cluedont Follow Meghan Markle's dad, doing some research before the royal wedding in May.

Jeremy Vine @theJeremyVine Follow The snap of Meghan Markle's dad brushing up on British history in Starbucks is everything

Declan Cashin-Chalamet-Poro..Folow @Tweet Dec Meghan Markle's dad reading a picture book to learn about British history THE BIG BO0K OF BRITISH SMILES

Parker Molloy @ParkerMolloy Follow Replying to @manymanywords

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Meghan Markle's Dad Reading About Britain refers to an image of Thomas Markle, the father of Meghan Markle, a former actress engaged to Prince Harry of England, holding a book titled Images of Britain. The image was joked about as it appeared as though Mr. Markle was cramming to learn basic facts about England before the royal wedding.

Origin

On April 4th, 2018, Buzzfeed^[2] covered the image in an article, as well as investigated what images were in Markle's book.

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Twitter user @rebexxxxa tweeted images of Mr. Markle with the book, captioned "me after ending an email with "cheers"," gaining over 480 retweets and 3,600 likes (shown below).^[1]

Rebecca Jennings @rebexxxxa Follow me after ending an email with "cheers'" RECYGLE Pirane

That day, several other Twitter users made jokes about the images. Writer Dana Schwartz joked that the image, calling it pure. Twitter user @morg1003 joked that the image reminded them of when they cram for an exam, gaining over 25,000 retweets and 95,000 likes (shown below, right).

Dana Schwartz Follow @DanaSchwartzzz literally nothing is more pure than Meghan Markle's dad doing some reading to learn more about england

morgana @morg100:3 Follow Meghan Markle's dad reading a picture book about england when his daughter is about to marry into the royal family is me cramming before an exam

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^[1] Twitter – @rebexxxxa

^[2] Buzzfeed – I'm Obsessed With Meghan Markle's Dad Reading A Picture Book To Learn About England

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