# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samantha-markle
# Generated: 2026-09-01T01:19:15.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samantha-markle"
name: "Samantha Markle"
slug: "samantha-markle"
description: "Members of the Markle and Ragland families have been related by marriage to the British royal family since the wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in May 2018, when she became the Duchess of Sussex. The couple has two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. The Markle family is of Pennsylvania Dutch descent and originates in Alsace on the modern French–German border, and Meghan's paternal ancestors moved to the United States in the 17th century; among her father's other ancestors are American settlers of English, Dutch, and Irish descent. The Ragland family is of African American descent."
tagline: "American memoirist and mental health counselor"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Coat_of_Arms_of_Merckel_family_of_Alsace_%28attributed%29.svg/330px-Coat_of_Arms_of_Merckel_family_of_Alsace_%28attributed%29.svg.png"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-11-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           1.597629333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  69
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4105943/"
    handle:    "nm4105943"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Markle"
    title: "Samantha Markle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115767793"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations