Meghan returns to Jamaica 13 years after her beachfront wedding: Duchess visits island nation with Harry for Bob Marley film premiere after she tied the knot with first husband Trevor Engelson during four-day celebration in 2011

Meghan Markle has returned to Jamaica 13 years after marrying her first husband Trevor Engelson in a lavish beachfront ceremony at a luxurious hotel resort.

The Duchess of Sussex, who was a 30-year-old television actress at the time, wed Trevor Engelson, a Hollywood producer four years her senior, in September 2011.

They held the wedding at Jamaica Inn in Ocho Rios for 100 guests – including actors from the Suits cast – who were supplied with party bags containing cannabis joints.

About 50 miles away on the other side of Jamaica, Meghan and her second husband Prince Harry – whom she married at Windsor Castle in May 2018 – appeared at the Carib Theatre in Kingston last night for a film premiere honouring Bob Marley.

Harry and Meghan were seen with Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness at the screening of ‘Bob Marley: One Love’, which celebrates the late reggae singer’s life.

The Duchess also visited Jamaica in March 2017, when she and Harry attended the wedding of the Duke’s friend Tom ‘Skippy’ Inskip to Lara Hughes-Young. 

Meghan Markle and Trevor Engelson at their wedding in September 2011 in Ocho Rios, Jamaica

A bikini-clad Meghan by a table of drinks at her wedding to Trevor Engelson in Jamaica in 2011

As for Meghan and Mr Engelson, they had been together for about nine years when he proposed – and she had just landed her first big TV role, as Rachel Zane in Suits.

Before flying to Jamaica, they were legally married at the Beverly Hills courthouse in California, with the ceremony at Jamaica Inn a blessing rather than a formal wedding.

The couple – who met in a Hollywood bar in 2004 – chose the location having spent a romantic break at the hotel earlier on in their relationship, while Meghan had also been on holiday there as a child with her mother Doria Ragland.

Jamaica Inn is also where Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller went on honeymoon and was previously visited by James Bond creator Ian Fleming, playwright Noel Coward, actor Errol Flynn and actress Katherine Hepburn.

Guests at Meghan’s wedding included actors from Suits, such as Patrick J. Adams and Rick Hoffman, and friends and relatives of Mr Engelson, who travelled from Long Island in New York.

The couple booked out the entire hotel after spending many months planning what one source described as ‘a boozy beach wedding with a magical backdrop… an epic weekend under the sun and stars’.

The inn’s top villa, priced at £1,200 a night, was given to the bride and groom.

Other guests were housed in its 55 villas and rooms, where they found a ‘tote’ bag filled with souvenirs and trinkets, such as sunscreen, lip-balm and Jamaican snacks.

Inside it was a smaller bag containing between three and five marijuana joints. These were given to all the attendees except those who Meghan believed might disapprove.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the red carpet premiere for the Bob Marley film last night

Harry and Meghan with Jamaica’s PM Andrew Holness and his wife Juliet in Kingston last night

The Duke and Duchess with Paramount boss Brian Robbins and his wife Tracy James last night

Harry and Meghan sit in the theatre in Kingston yesterday as they attend the film premiere 

The Duchess also gave guests a rigid schedule of events, which began with a casual welcome dinner on the Friday.

This was followed by beach yoga with Ms Ragland on the Saturday morning then games pitting members of Meghan’s party against Mr Engelson’s.

Meghan took part in a wheelbarrow race, while there was also a tug-of-war and drinking games including ‘beer ping-pong’.

The wedding day was Sunday, with guests relaxing at the hotel before a sunset ceremony that saw Meghan make an entrance to the sound of steel drums.

She then walked down a makeshift aisle to Cat Power’s song Sea Of Love.

The ceremony was interfaith and included some Jewish traditions, such as serenading the couple with the folk song Hava Nagila and carrying them aloft on chairs, in accordance with the religion followed by Mr Engelson’s family.

This was then followed by swimming in the sea with the revelry continuing until sunrise the following morning.

But the couple separated only two years later in 2013 and divorced in August that year, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’.

Trevor Engelson with his now-wife Tracey Kurland at a Netflix screening in Hollywood in 2018  

Meghan Markle and Trevor Engelson at the Anti-Defamation League Entertainment Industry Awards Dinner at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on October 11, 2011

Meghan and Trevor Engelson at a photo exhibition in East Hampton, New York, in August 2006

According to multiple reports, Meghan posted her wedding and engagement rings back to Engelson in Los Angeles.

Mr Engelson then married again in 2019 to heiress Tracey Kurland, a dietician whose late father built up a $500million (£392million) fortune in the mortgage industry before his premature death from complications from Covid in 2021. 

When he died, reports in the US claimed Tracey inherited $250million (£196million).

Mr Engelson and Ms Kurland live on a sprawling estate in a wealthy Los Angeles enclave with their two young daughter.

They also now co-host an annual a golf tournament in memory of her father which has raised more than a million dollars.

The pair tied the knot at a five-star beach hotel in May 2019 – ironically in Montecito, California, a short distance from the £11million home Meghan and Harry later bought in the exclusive enclave.