MEGHAN’S MUM STYLE

Ever since the world started scrutinising everything Meghan Markle wears, she has largely stuck to a familiar formula: professional polish meets Californian ease.

Following a handful of public appearances since giving birth, her style appears to have picked up

where she left off. Silhouettes are

tailored, colours neutral, heels high.

She opts for clever designers –

Wales Bonner for Archie’s debut,

Stella Mccartney for a baseball

game in London, and her favourite, Givenchy’s Clare Waight Keller for the Trooping The Colour. They chime with the causes she wants to support: female empowerment and sustainability.

But look closer and Meghan is dressing like her pre-duchess days.

Compare this year’s Wimbledon

outfit to 2018’s. Last year she wore

a striped Ralph Lauren shirt, tucked into wide, too-long trousers. It was chic, sure, if a little ‘dress-up’. This year, however, she wore skinny jeans (denim! In the royal box!) and a basic black tee, by lesser-known attainable labels Outland Denim and Lavender Hill. Last year’s

panama was a £500 style by

Maison Michel, this year’s is by American high-street giant Madewell. Meghan-watchers will notice that she has worn the L’agence blazer before, too. It was

a more relaxed riff on last year’s

formula; a shift in gear rather than a complete change of direction. In many ways it had more in common with the oversized Misha Nonoo Husband shirt and skinny jeans she wore to the Invictus Games for her

first public appearance with Harry. She looked comfortable, like any new mum would want to be.

But it was the dinky initial necklace, an ‘A’ charm for Archie, which was most revealing about Meghan. A proud mum move, if a little more sentimental than typical royal rigour, it was indicative of how she intends to tackle motherhood

– in her own inimitable style.