Meghan’s netball kit? High heels and a €1,850 designer top!
IT wasn’t the most appropriate attire for a game of netball – a €1,847 Oscar de la Renta top and sky high heels.
But Meghan Markle certainly gave it a good go, throwing and catching the ball against her husband, Prince Harry, who gave his wife a quick hug when his team beat hers.
The couple yesterday handed out awards on behalf of Coach Core, one of the charities supported by their Royal Foundation.
The organisation helps pair young people who are not in education or employment with the biggest sports clubs in the country, providing tuition and paying them in order to help them become sports coaches in the future.
More than 200 apprentices took part in yesterday’s event, joining in a variety of master classes with sports stars including marathon runner Paula Radcliffe, tennis star Laura Robson and netballer Eboni Beckford-Chambers.
But all eyes were on Harry, 34, and Meghan, 37, when they arrived at the venue at Loughborough University in the English midlands.
Ms Markle, in a draped blouse with a tiered asymmetrical waist, sported a new hairstyle.
Her tresses appeared to be longer and straighter, as opposed to the curls she has recently favoured, and had been styled with a distinctive middle parting.
After meeting some of the young people taking part, the royal couple immediately got stuck in to the netball. Harry led his team to a 3-2 victory over Meghan’s, but in the eyes of one of the prince’s teammates, 7ft 1in ex-basketball player David Robinson, that may have been a mistake.
‘You’ve always got to put your wife centre stage,’ said Robinson, 53, who played for the San Antonio Spurs. ‘They are newly married, so he is learning that.’