As the worldbreathlessly waits: does Donald Trump think Meghan Markle is a 10?

Commonwealth heads of state and government were quick off the mark this morning when the news of Prince Harry's engagement was announced. That invited comparisons in The Guardian:

...Markle, who backed Hillary Clinton for president, suggested in a television interview in 2016 that she would leave the US for Canada if Trump won. 

She said: “We film Suits in Toronto and I might just stay in Canada. I mean come on, if that’s reality we are talking about, come on, that is a gamechanger in terms of how we move in the world here.” 

Markle told Larry Wilmore’s Nightly Show in the US: “Yes, of course Trump is divisive.
“Think about just female voters alone. I think it was in 2012, the Republican party lost the female vote by 12 points. That’s a huge number and as misogynistic as Trump is and so vocal about it, that’s a huge chunk of it.”

For his part, the *resident's views of British royalty are well known. He longs to hobnob with them, and lusts after the women:

 According to a transcript of an appearance on The Howard Stern Show in 2000, one of a package of previously unreleased recordings uploaded to the Factbase website and first reported on by Newsweek, Stern asked Trump: “You would have slept with her?”

“Without even hesitation,” came the response.

“I tell you what,” the man who is now commander in chief said, “I think she's magnificent. Lady Di was truly a woman with great beauty. I've seen her a couple of times.”

“She was really beautiful,” the president-to-be continued, “and people didn't realize that beautiful. She was supermodel beautiful. She had the height, she had the beauty, she had the skin, the whole thing.”

In an earlier interview, aired in 1997, Trump also discussed Diana, who before her death was known as the Princess of Wales, as the ex-wife of Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne. But this time he and Stern imagined a scenario in which Trump asked Diana to get tested before they had sex.

"Hey, Lady Di, would you go to the doctor?" Stern says. "Go back over to my Lexus because I have a new doctor, we wanna give you a little checkup," Trump adds.

“Why do people think it's egotistical of you to say that you've gotten Lady Di, right?” Stern asked Trump on the 1997 show, “You could've gotten her, right? You could've nailed her.”

Trump said again that he “thought she was supermodel beautiful. I'm telling you, I said this the other day. I said Lady Di had supermodel beauty.”

“She had times, you know, it was interesting, she had times when she didn't look great,” conceded the future most powerful man in the world, “and sometimes you look better than anybody in the world. But she was supermodel.”