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Portrait of the week | 30 November 2017

Also in Portrait of the Week: Britain agrees the size of its Brexit ‘divorce bill’ and Isis kills 300 Sufi Muslims in Egypt

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The engagement was announced of Prince Henry of Wales, aged 33, and the Los Angeles-born Meghan Markle, an actress aged 36. They are to marry at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in May. Ms Markle scotched rumours that she might be a Catholic, declaring herself a Protestant preparing to be baptised into the Church of England and receive Confirmation before the wedding. Though Ms Markle is divorced, she has been allowed to marry in a church service. The couple told the broadcaster Mishal Husain in a televised interview that they were attempting to cook a chicken one day last month when the prince went down on one knee to propose. During the interview, Prince Harry said: ‘The corgis took to you straight away.’

Britain agreed to a formula to decide the sum that it must pay to leave the European Union; the result would be up to £50 billion.

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