Meghan Markle wore a custom Misha Nonoo shirt for her first public appearance with Prince Harry at the Invictus Games. Image by Chris Jackson/Getty Images for the Invictus Games Foundation

Yes, we know, Meghan Markle isn’t Jewish, but it’s very possible that her matchmaker is.

Misha Nonoo, a Persian Jewish fashion designer who used to show at New York Fashion Week (she now shows her collection on her Instagram feed during NYFW), was supposedly the one who introduced the couple and set Meghan Markle and Prince Harry up on a blind date.

Misha Nonoo — aka, the woman may or may not be responsible for our royal wedding madness. Image by Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Tory Sport

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Now, before we get ahead of ourselves and go full-on Fiddler On The Roof, singing about how only a true yiddishe yenta can make a proper match, let’s examine the evidence:

Exhibit A: Meghan Markle and Misha Nonoo are friends. Ms. Markle wore a custom Misha Nonoo shirt to her first public appearance with Prince Harry at the Invictus Games.

Exhibit B: Her ex-husband Alexander Gilkes, who converted to Judaism for Ms. Nonoo before they married in 2011, is part of the royal family inner circle. He attended Eton with William, owns an online auction site called Paddle8 that briefly employed Princess Eugenie and his younger brother dated Pippa Middleton. He and Ms. Nonoo attended Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding in 2011.

Exhibit C: In their engagement interview, Prince Harry said that they were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend.

Conclusion: we are 80% sure that this information is a true and incontrovertible fact.

So who is Misha Nonoo?

Give your little black dress a break this holiday season. Make this white, denim number your go-to outfit by pairing it with the Beatrice Turtleneck ✨

A post shared by MISHA NONOO (@mishanonoo) on Nov 18, 2017 at 2:30pm PST

• Born in Bahrain, raised in London and educated in Paris.
• Known for creating classic clothes with a twist, for the modern working woman at relatively accessible prices (this blazer dress, at $450, is one of her more expensive pieces).
• Won a Fashion Futures award for Best Beyond the Runway Experience for her pioneering use of Instagram to showcase her collection, also known as the “Insta-show”.
• Was a Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund Finalist and, in 2013, was named to Forbes’ “30 under 30” list.

Michelle Honig is the style writer at the Forward. Contact her at honig@forward.com. Find her on Instagram and Twitter.

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