Meghan Markle Unveils New Look Amid Coronation Drama

A present hairstyle! Meghan Markle switched up her look. 

The 41-year-old California native ditched her signature bouncy curls for a modern, bone-straight mane. Meghan debuted the delicate change whereas introducing her pal and photographer Misan Harriman earlier than his current TED Discuss. “The Duchess of Sussex was type sufficient to introduce me unto the stage for my @Ted. Thanks for the assist Meg,” Harriman captioned a Monday, April 24, Instagram put up that included a photograph of Meghan talking on a giant display screen. 

The duchess complemented her shiny crown with smooth glam that included delicate mascara, a golden spotlight and a pink lip. Meghan normally opts for heavier make-up that options daring eyeliner.

The “Archetypes” podcast host’s public engagement marks her first since Buckingham Palace confirmed she is not going to be attending King Charles III’s coronation.  

A supply completely instructed Us Weekly earlier this month that her resolution needed to do together with her youngsters. “As a lot as Meghan appreciates the invite to the coronation, she wouldn’t miss her son’s birthday for the world,” the insider mentioned of the previous actress, who shares son Archie, 3, and daughter Lilibet, 22 months, with Prince Harry. “Regardless of being the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan is a mother first.” Harry, 38, will seem on the Might 6 soirée solo.

Discussions surrounding Meghan’s presence on the coronation arose once more this previous weekend when a rep for the Bench writer denied rumors that letters she reportedly exchanged with Charles, 74, after her and Harry’s 2021 tell-all led to her lacking the upcoming occasion. 

“The Duchess of Sussex goes about her life within the current, not desirous about correspondence from two years in the past associated to conversations from 4 years in the past,” the Sussexes’ rep mentioned in a press release to Harper’s Bazaar on Saturday, April 22. “Any suggestion in any other case is fake and admittedly ridiculous.”

The denial got here in the future after The Telegraph reported that the Fits alum exchanged letters with Charles about her and Harry‘s March 2021 interview on CBS. In the course of the explosive sit-down, the couple claimed {that a} royal member of the family questioned “how darkish” son Archie’s pores and skin can be whereas Meghan was pregnant. Harry and Meghan refused to publicly title the individual.

After the interview aired, in response to The Telegraph, Meghan exchanged correspondence together with her father-in-law concerning the incident, which rapidly made headlines and went viral on social media.

“The Duchess is believed to have thanked the King for his phrases,” the Telegraph reported. “The Duchess’s letter can also be mentioned to counsel that she had by no means meant to particularly accuse the person concerned of being a racist, however was elevating issues about unconscious bias.” 

The letter allegedly named the person who made the comment about pores and skin tone, however the now-monarch and the philanthropist allegedly agreed within the letters that the remark was “an harmless remark.”