While the British royal family would never admit it, they do pay attention to what big events are happening around the world and they usually try to avoid doing direct competition for attention. I’m not saying the royals completely shut down for every awards show, but usually they try not to be on a royal tour in the middle of a big event happening somewhere else. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are doing things differently, it seems. They chose to make this three day trip to Morocco on Oscar weekend. Perhaps they didn’t care about the Oscars, or maybe they were attempting some “counterprogramming” on an international scale. In any case, I don’t completely hate it.
I already covered some of Meghan’s looks from the Moroccan trip – go here for Valentino, here for the Dior and here for the casual look – and the photos in this post are from their last full day in Morocco. I read that officially, their “tour” ends today, but they’re staying in Morocco overnight and won’t leave until tomorrow morning. First up: the photos of Meghan and Harry at the Andalusian Gardens, the photos of Meghan in the black dress and white jacket. I can’t find an ID on this pleated dress, but it’s such a cute maternity look. She paired it with a Babaton jacket in cream, which she’s worn before. The best part of this look? The GAS Bijoux statement earrings. She has the face for big earrings.
Earlier on Monday, Meghan and Harry visited the Moroccan Royal Federation of Equestrian Sports to learn more about the equine therapy program. Meghan’s jacket is J.Crew, but no one has the ID on her top. It’s sort of cute, but this is one time when I’ll say that Meghan is copying Kate. Kate OWNS that whole “skinny jeans and striped top” look. Granted, many women do that look, but Kate is known for it. The J.Crew jacket is super-cute though. Good blend of mass-market pieces and couture on this trip.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
She is such a cute pregnant lady.
She looks so amazing.
They look so happy.
The usual hater British journos were in shock, practically speechless, when Meghan spoke a few words of French to one of the girls at an event yesterday. Lol I loved it.
I love how well Harry and Meghan work together in their tours and how happy they look.
She looks super cute in both outfits. I wish I had the face for earrings like that! My face is just too round.
I want her to put some sunscreen on, it looks like she might be getting a bit of a sunburn. I’m about her shade and I have to slather myself in sunscreen or I get the most angry sun blisters.
What would she be? Nc40 or nc42? I can go up to nc40 when tanned, but I have a tendency to sunspots. I think Meg is surely taking good care of her skin.
I’m sure she uses sunscreen daily. She has said in interviews that her mom got her started on facials in her teens, telling her how important it is to take care of her skin. So I’d be comfortable waging a bet that she does use it daily. JMO 😊 She looks lovely; they both look so happy!
(Wish I’d known about sunscreen as a kid! We were at the beach EVERY DAY in the summer (and weekends other times!) from 9 am -5-6 pm. We slathered on baby oil and Hawaiian Tropic Oil… no one knew from sunscreen in the late 60s/early 70s! We all thought we looked soooooo good with tans. I have the kind of fairness that burned, then peeled and tanned. Sigh… If I could go back and tell my younger self… My grandmother, who didn’t go out in the sun, didn’t have any wrinkles into her 70s (only a bit of saggy skin, from aging). Le sigh! )
Her chest looks quite sun damaged, which I’d never noticed before.
I’m the same age as Meghan and my chest looks the same.
Too much time spent applying sunscreen on the face but not applying and then reapplying to the body.
It was definitely one of my mother’s greatest beauty hints, which I thank her for daily. Agreed it’s common in women even as young as their early thirties. I just hadn’t seen it on her before.
It could be melasma from the pregnancy.
I’m seeing more of her Mama in her face now!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, I agree. She is very pretty.
It’s the pregnancy fullness. Doria’s face isn’t as angular as Meg’s is normally. Meg will age beautifully.
Yes, I’ve always felt she looked like Doria.
Doria has such a beautiful face.
Yes, gorgeous, both of them.
That green outfit was the first time the pregnancy really reached her face. No shade. It’s bringing out the similarities to her mother, but it’s definitely a pregnancy face.
She and Harry look super happy together. He is defiantly happier when she is around.
The extension by one day was because the King invited them to meet with him. That was late change from what I can tell.
The UK Ambassador continues to tweet up a storm about RoyalVisitMorocco. TSAReilly
Did you see the tweet about his socks? wonder which pair he wore.
It’s great that they did not do a walk about, at this stage in Meghan’s pregnacy.
Yes he is hilarious. After the socks, his suits started to fight, each one wanted to be worn at the reception yesterday. And this morning it was the socks again, they did not want to get up. 😀 He is so funny and sweet.
He has been fantastic. Like, at first when he was tweeting about it I missed that he was the ambassador and thought that he was the press officer or something, lol.
I have followed all of Will and Kate’s royal tours and Meghan and Harry’s previous ones, and I loosely follow Charles and Camilla’s tours. This is the first time that I have clicked through to all the various charities, and that I have followed the country’s ambassador. This feels like the epitome of what a royal tour should be – celebrating the local culture, looking at organizations that are part of the royals’ interests, etc. It’s been short but it’s been excellent IMO.
TSA Reilly is so excited about their visit. It’s cute!
“The extension by one day was because the King invited them to meet with him.”
Source? No,because they just reported they would stay another day on their own,basically on vacation..
I just read the same. That they extended their visit to meet the king. *shrug*
No, they don’t get to just stay an extra day in one of his palaces. Not all royal visitors to Morocco get to spend time with the royal family. Many visits don’t include time with the royal family. The King invited Harry and Meghan to stay an extra day so he could spend time with them.
“Kate owns that look”
Not after today she doesn’t. Meghan got the fit, proportions, color, and styling down perfectly. I hope this was intentional after the subtle nonsense Kate’s been pulling for the last year. Your heavily pregnant sister-in-law looking 10 times better than you do in your signature outfit. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Kate. ::cackles::
Also hard agree on Meghan’s approach go the UK media. They are really going to regret their short sided behavior.
What the…
Oh please, you sound ridiculous. Look at Meghan’s pant legs tucked into those boots, baggy and all puffed out. Jeans tucked into boots should be sleek and not at all bunchy. This is not a good look at all.
Her pants and boots combo look great. And her pant legs are not “all puffed out”.
You know that “opinions are like arses” saying? (Everyone has one and …) In my ‘opinion’ that applies to silly fashion rules as well.
@atlantic, They do look great don’t they? Meghan makes this look fresh, slim jeans as opposed to thin jeggings, this season’s boot length, good proportions with the coat, sweater, and jeans. She just has style.
Can you elaborate on the ‘subtle nonsense’ from the past year. I’m not trolling. Wondering what you’re seeing that I’m not. Also I tend to only read gossip on celebitchy so I don’t always get the references to narratives on other sites
I do remember Kate coming down stairs, on a plane I think, in trousers and thinking that was definitely Meghan’s influence
I think she’s referring to things like Kate’s repetition of outfits (Kate always rewears pieces, but never at the constant rate of the past 6 months), and yes, the trousers.
But, at the end of the day, I think this is a classic look that both women like. Kate does tend to wear it a lot, but she does that – she has uniforms. Shrug.
Wearing a new dress in a shade of white at Meghan’s wedding and trying to gaslight everyone into thinking it was yellow/was a repeat/that’s not a thing in England/She just had a baby don’t pick on her/English rose!, trying to undermine the cookbook launch news by announcing a dubious and yet to materialize poverty initiative, announcing her third pregnancy the same weekend that Meghan’s Vanity Fair profile dropped bc of ‘HG’, etc. Mean girl nonsense, in general.
@Becks1, I agree that the clothes repeating is Kate’s way of garnering some positive press for herself at Meghan’s expense. I also think we can attribute Kate’s newfound confidence to the fact that she is the racist tabloid gossips’ darling at the moment, not that I think she’s smart enough to realize that she’s a neo nazi pinup, just that the beatings she used to take in the press have now shifted to Meghan. And she’s glad to let someone else take the criticism- even though she’s more deserving of it.
@Ahoyoy. THIS… All that you said, I’ve been saying this for months, Kate definitely has a mean girl vibe going on and she defo knows she is a racists pin up girl right now, but doesn’t care, take her brothers nazi marshmallows for goodness sake.
@Becks1, if I hear one more person use the phrase “primrose yellow” one more time…
I think my biggest issue is that Kate is deserving of all of the criticism that has been lobbed at her over the last 15 years. The media and internet commenters haven’t been mean to her, they are legitimately pointing out faults that she needs to correct, post haste and are exasperated that a grown woman with bottomless reserves of help and money is such a hot mess constantly. None of the criticisms of Meghan have been valid. She is without fail bright, engaged, appropriately attired, enthusiastic, prepared, and mature, on a completely thorough basis. Kate has never been 3 of those things at the same time ever. That people balk at attributing Meghan’s criticisms to racism is ignorant, at best and malicious at worst.
That has been the constant theme lately, AhoyOy. Kate has been justifiable criticized for years for her laziness and for purchasing dozens of identical outfits. The criticism of Meghan is, for the most part, complete fabrication. She has done very little wrong at this point, and is already working at the level of Sophie Wessex. A level Kate Middleton has still never reached.
The Middletons must have worked very hard this weekend, because the story of James producing Nazi supplies has disappeared.
Oh please, Kate doesn’t own this look, more or less everyone here in the UK wears a breton top with jeans esp on those ‘can’t be bothered’ days, it’s a standard middle class uniform. I have so many of these tops in different colours/lengths even my raincoat has the striped detail on the inside, im definately not copying Kate!
Meghan looks lovely though.
Kate’s stripped top/jeggings is my least favorite look of hers. I don’t like it on Meghan, either.
Eh? Okay… If anyone has ever been to Japan they will have seen this look 10 million times over. I’m pretty sure everyone in Japan owns a striped top like this. The original owner, and inventor, of course, being Coco Chanel. It’s a classic look, no one owns it these days.
And Coco borrowed the look from sailors..
She looks more and more like Doria everyday !
Thank goodness for small mercies.
I’ve been thinking this a lot. The extra weight on her face really brings the resemblance out. Well we always new she didn’t get her prettiness from Thomas
Absolutely stunning.
She looks wonderful in both outfits I have a very similar maternity sweater to the one she is wearing from Loft. I am sure that’s not hers (I bought that sweater 5 years ago!) but its similar. And here is where I will admit that I bought the sweater because of Kate, hahahaha.
Meghan can definitely pull off big earrings. Its tricky bc not every one can. It has so much to do with proportions of your face/neck area.
She is pretty and looks pretty, these shoes would kill me though, if i would wear them while being pregnant.
In my pregnancies i died when i tried to wear shoes with even a tiny heel.
I needed flat shoes.
My pregnancies are what killed my ability to wear heels. I havent been able to wear heels since my second was born in 2014.
My pregnancy didn’t affect my ability to wear/walk in heels. I can’t walk in them pregnant or not!
Hahaha
I was constantly barefoot. I don’t do heels in normally so would not do them when I was pregnant.
I was invited to five weddings during my first pregnancy, so dress up was expected.
I needed low shoes with a really good arch because I gained a LOT of weight.
Is she wearing a skirt or a dress?
Ha! That was my first thought, too. It looks like she pulled her skirt up over her chest. Anyway, the Meghan’s Fashion site says it’s a strapless Givenchy dress that she also wore in January with a top over it. The striped top is by Equipment.
It is a skirt??? Well Sienna Miller did it often in the 2000s
It’s been id’ed as a Lloyd/Ford dress. It has a skinny straps that someone with an eagle eye managed to spot and one of the fashion blogs found the exact dress. It also comes on a bright pink!
Oh she looks beautiful!
Pregnancy really does suit her, she’s been carrying wonderfully and her fashions have been ON POINT!
This was a short but great trip. Everyone involved had a good time and apparently, from Rihannon from SkyNew 100 International press followed them there! A lot of people for only 2.5 days!
It looks like the baby has dropped, yeah? Or just the angles of the photos?
From public statements, she still has 8 weeks to go. At least one party line of the haters has been set aside. No, she wasn’t two months pregnant at their wedding.
Please don’t kill me, it’s just an observation. I love Meghan and Harry!! Does Harry sometimes come accross as unhappy?
Ugh. Its just an observation, and I’m not intending on being negative because I love them and want them together for all eternity. Just my observation…. 🤷🏾♀️
I think both Harry and William have not mastered the expression of “thoughtful thinking but not smiling.” Basically I think they have RBF, haha. When they arent smiling, they often look petulant and/or unhappy, but I dont think they actually are. This is a such a stupid thing to say, and I’m embarrassed that I’m saying it, but I think they both could use some body language coaching or something. Its like they dont know how to “show” they are listening? Princess Anne does, and so does Charles – you can tell when they are actively listening or engaged, even if they arent smiling. William and Harry arent quite there yet.
So no, I dont think he is actually unhappy (I mean maybe he is), I just think he and William have this expression that they probably think conveys “serious thinking” but really looks like “super pissed off.”
Royal Bitch Face lol. I don’t think he’s unhappy but I do think he wears the stress in his face ocassionally and could use some coaching as you said.
I’d be unhappy if the partner I chose, who completely changed her life for me, even gave up her career and moved to another country, was then publicly belittled, demeaned, lied about, and criticized on a daily basis by my countries’ media. I’d be even more unhappy if that same media then weaponized her own family against her for shits and giggles, claimed she was a spendthrift difficult diva who made white girls cry. I’d be horrified if the country that I represented as a member of its royal family showed the partner I loved the kind of vitriolic racism that I had previously never really understood. I’d be even more upset if this were all being done while my partner was pregnant with my child.
But I’d like to imagine that this brings them closer as a couple. She likely feels mortified by her family’s shennanigans and how other people within the Firm perceive her. He likely feels mortified at the response of his country and even his immediate family. In this sense, they are both equally vulnerable to situations beyond their control, so their likely recourse would be to bond even more closely. Think how different it would be if Meghan’s family behaved impeccably and she were being treated like this, or if the British people and his family were warmly welcoming and her family acted the fool. This way, neither is indebted to the other.
When I’m feeling optimistic, I think that this might be the first great love story of the 21st century–the stuff of great epics and mythology. All great love stories come with obstacles to be overcome, right? This is just Act 1 of the Harry and Meghan story.
All of this. I want them to be happily ever after so badly. They have a lot coming at them trying to bring them (her) down, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it became too much at some point.
I love everything you said Lanne!! especially the last paragraph “When I’m feeling optimistic, I think that this might be the first great love story of the 21st century–the stuff of great epics and mythology. All great love stories come with obstacles to be overcome, right? This is just Act 1 of the Harry and Meghan story.”
Also Harry is worried about the dangers when they are on tour. At this restaurant he actually warned the press pack that they were getting too close with their cameras.
Wonderfully written, lanne.
I think it’s just his face. She looks so happy, and they’re affectionate here, so I think it would be hard to fake that if he was a sourpuss.
I think it’s very hard to judge anything about their personal lives and relationships based on photos and snippets of videos, especially from events. These situations are highly choreographed and I imagine everyone is playing a role to an extent. He could also be bored, tired, having indigestion… who knows.
As others have said, I think it’s just his face. I have RBF and there’s nothing I can do about it…I try to smile and look happy as best I can lol.
She looks great here, love both these looks on her. And the stripped T, leggings coat etc is a common look most and many women have in their wardrobe. And yes Harry seems grumpy to me at times. I see him as a spoilt and like she will always be trying to calm him down, she is the stable one and he is the emotional one.
I think he just tends to look that way sober. Usually if you see a smiling photo, he’s wasted, and naked, dressed as an SS member, or so on.
Not true. He made mistakes and was man enough to apologize for them.
This is the clearest I’ve seen Harry’s eyes.
Many reporters have said he wears his emotion openly.
Yoga and meditation sure are working for him otherwise he would’ve been giving the press the evil eye for all the horrible stories they wrote about his wife.
Children of divorced parents get lost in shuffle, especially when the parents are snipping at one another and are vindictive, throw in the death of a parent.
Gashet, where’s your vitriol for Kate’s brother peddling Nazi supplies?
Harry was an idiot to wear a costume his big brother picked out for him. The brother who went to the party dressed as an “African Native” according to the person at the costume rental shop.
I’m not put off by what you see as his grumpy demeanor. I read him as being generally guarded in public (no surprise, considering how his mother died) but able to let his guard down when dealing with children or his charities. That his wife seems more at ease is not surprising—her parent was not hounded to death when she was still a child, and she has had years of being used to performing in front of cameras before she met him.
The trolls that think she’s faking her pregnancy are (obviously) delusional. She’s got baby face for sure. She looks great!
I can definitely see her pregnancy in her face.
No, no baby face. It’s clearly fillers. 😄
I swear, Bella, when I saw the photos of Meghan at the top of the page I thought to myself, I really hope I don’t go down into the comments and have to read “zomg fillers!” a million times. Lol
Baby face, baby boobs, the belly button, the whole deal. She’s pregnant.
I loved having those swollen pregnancy lips and poofy face! It was like having natural fillers and implants!! She looks radient.
She’s so beautiful.
So hang on….she’s copying Kate’s look because she wore a striped shirt?? Stripes are probably literally the most common design on earth. I do not get this comment at all. All of this constant nonsense across all media about them copying each other, competing with each other…so tedious.
I also don’t get the comment about the Oscars. I most sincerely doubt royals consider the Oscars award show something they should schedule their engagements around. That is completely absurd, in my opinion. It’s just a televised award show for movies. Hardly any international event that diplomats would be scheduling their trips around.
IKR? I doubt the Queen’s diplomatic corps pulls out Hollywood’s calendar to plan their visits.
You meant Her Majesty’s Government.
Peg: right you are!
I do actually think they coordinate around things like the Oscars. Not for the usual engagements, but for big royal tours or the like – yes, probably. Especially with the younger royals – they know that Oscars, Globes etc dominate social media, and I am sure they try to avoid clashing with those events. I mean you can see it on this site – there are usually numerous posts about Meghan with hundreds of comments. But the Oscars are dominating (I’m not complaining, thats how it should be IMO.) But the royals know that. I dont know if the BAFTAs are as big a deal as the Oscars (like from a style/fashion perspective, which is what makes the Oscars so interesting), but if they are, then it makes sense that events would be coordinated to avoid clashing with the BAFTAs as well.
+1 @themummy. Also, Meghan has wore this look before. Just google Meghan Markle, Yoga Toronto.
Omg yes. This whole outfit with the field jacket, stripes sweater, skinny jeans and boots (or flats or runners), is literally Meghan’s everyday outfit pre Harry. The only thing missing is her dog, a yoga mat, or a tote bag. Or all three! Lol.
In fact this green field jacket is literally the same J Crew jacket that she’s worn before Harry.
Yeah, I don’t see why they’d even think about the Oscars.
Love her casual style. Yes it’s similar to her sister-in-law’s style but she wears it better. She is wearing proper skinny jeans and not jegggings. I am not a fan of those boots with the outfit as ankle boots would have worn better.
Monochrome is her thing so I like the dress and jacket, that is typical Meg.
I can help out with the dress, it’s: Custom Givenchy black strapless pleated dress. She wore this dress at the ACU meeting in January.
I was wondering if it was actually a skirt and it also looked so familiar. Thanks Eyfalia!
Well, it could also be the pleated mini dress from Lloyd/Ford. 😎
So you’re saying she has……repeated a look? Is she……..dare I say it…..thrifty!?!?!?!?!?!?
No this is a Llyod/Ford dress. It’s already been id’ed.
The dress she wore to the ACU is different. In fact some believe that wasn’t a dress at all but a sweater and a skirt combo,.
They both look radiant and so happy. Megs is the cutest pregnant lady ever!
Uh. A hand in the pocket in public. That’s surely against protocol, non?
/s
He is Royal, so it’s allowed.
Last week he had the nerve to close his own car door, the horror.
That old biddy Ingrid Seward is sining a different tune nowadays, no more worrying about Meghan knowing which fork to use at dinner with the Queen.
Holy Anoia. Harry too? Tsk.
Lol at Seward. Does anyone know her background? I know she’s friends with aristocrats but I’m just wondering if she had any royal or aristo blood considering her extreme snobbery. She’s more elitisic than the Queen herself
I remember at the end of my pregnancy, my face seemed to get puffy and retaining water was a bitch. She is definitely showing the end of this pregnancy. She looks gorgeous and glowing and I’m happy for them. What an amazing time for both of them.
Harry looks a lot like Charles in the Morocco pics.
I like Meghan but for me this dress is a big fail. It looks like a pleated skirt pulled up, maybe that’s why no one can ID it.
Same. This is not a “wow” outfit at all. The earrings look good though!
The dress was ID’d in comment number 19 by Eyfalia.
It is by Givenchy and it’s a dress and not a skirt.
Meghan’s mirror says it’s Loyd/Ford minidress not Givenchy.
Chic women around the world wear striped tops and army jackets! It’s one of the most basic outfits ever. Please don’t tell me Kate ‘owns’ it!
Rhiannon Mills from Sky did a piece on this trip and said that the media interest is huge with over 100 journos following them. She also said that the interest in the baby is definitely up there and comparable to when George was due. All the trolls live in their hate filled bubble while Meghan just rises above it.
But what was really interesting was that Rhiannon Mills was actually quoting directly from a Palace source, who said that there is as much interest in baby Sussex as it was with the arrival of Prince George. Mills, even as a journalist seemed amazed that were over 100 photographers alone, without counting the journalists. The Queen should make this baby HRH.
There was an article stating that betting for Baby sussex is already greater than it was for the 3 Cambridge babies combined.
Wow, over 100 journos for a 2.5 day tour!!
Did anyone see polo baby kicking as Meghan was sitting during tour? You can see her blouse flutter. Amazing!!!
I like the first look from the neck up. Not sure about the strapless dress. The other look is cute too and yes,very Kate-y,but the ankle boots look uncomfortable for the place they were visiting. At some point she was walking in the mud with those heels.
I still don’t understand the purpose of this trip that already looked arranged at the last minute. Cooking demonstration,looking at horses.. Really? It’s the kind of fluffy activities used to fill longer tours, and for a taxpayer-funded tour it’s still pointless and a waste of money,
The visit at the EFAM boarding schools had very little substance too. Going around asking which course the girls want to pursue is the same “small talk” their hardcore “fanbase” mocks when it comes to “the other two”,but in this case it was groundbreaking and it shows that they know what they’re talking about. Not like Kate and her dumb questions..lol And the fact that the Queen,Theresa May,I don’t know who else,have resorted to ask a pregnant woman to tackle this delicate diplomatic mission is very telling about the incompetence of the other royals. Two in particular..
Horse therapy. The kids next to the horses were special needs children.
Promoting the education of girls and therapy for special needs kids is unimportant? Promoting a good relationship with a country with multiple shipping ports is unimportant? Guess that whole state visit from Spain two weeks ago wasn’t important either.
I was pregnant when I was 36vwith my first and only and I’m absolutely amazed as to how active Meghan is. I just wanted to crash at the end of the day from work, and my back and hips were killing at this point in my pregnancy. Kudos to her, I say.
She looked great. The clothing suited her to a T.