Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: Imminent Engagement Announcement

Bookmakers have suspended betting on another royal wedding, sparking speculation that Prince Harry is set to announce his engagement to actress Meghan Markle.

The couple has been the subject of intense media scrutiny in recent weeks, with rumours circulating that Harry has already proposed to the American beauty.

Ladbrokes, one of the UK's largest bookmakers, has now decided to pull all bets on when the engagement will take place.

A spokesman for the company told Mail Online, “Royal watchers would love a Christmas engagement announcement, and as far as we're concerned it's coming imminently.”

Meghan Markle, who has been dating Harry since last summer, is said to be moving her dogs to the UK amid claims that she is planning to live in London with him.

The actress, who currently stars in legal TV drama Suits, is rumoured to be cutting back on her Hollywood commitments and has moved out of her Toronto home, where she has been living for the last five years.

She is now in the process of shipping her belongings over to the UK to embark on a new life with the fifth in line to the throne.

Miss Markle, who is divorced, is thought to be trying to ensure her two dogs, a Labrador Shepherd Cross named Bogart and a Beagle named Guy, can join her in Britain.

She has previously described them as “my loves”.

The actress has been rumoured to be leaving for the UK ever since she and Harry made a public display of affection at the Invictus Games in Canada in September.

The couple's relationship has been the subject of intense media interest, with many speculating that an engagement is imminent.

Harry introduced his celebrity girlfriend to the Queen over tea at Buckingham Palace last month, and Miss Markle was spotted in Chelsea on Tuesday after a beauty treatment at an exclusive West London clinic where the Beckhams are said to be regulars.

If the couple does announce their engagement, it will not be the first time that a royal has married an American.

King Edward VIII famously abdicated in 1936 after he married twice-divorced Wallis Simpson.

Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, announced their engagement on November 16, 2010, and married on April 29, 2011.

Miss Markle's great-great-great-grandparents, Thomas and Mary Sykes, were born in Yorkshire and left for Pennsylvania in 1869 in search of a better life.

Research has previously indicated that Harry and his girlfriend are distant cousins related through a late 15th century ancestor of the Queen Mother.

The actress is said to be head over heels in love with her prince charming, and it looks like this fairy tale is going to have a happy ending.