Meghan’s kiss for her polo Prince
Meghan and Wallis — two glamorous American divorce es who met their smitten princes at 34...
look Carolina Herrera dress, could be seen affectionately rubbing Harry’s back before they walked away from the ceremony hand in hand.
The couple were at the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club, a short drive from Windsor Castle, for the annual match in aid of the prince’s charity, Sentebale, which supports the mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable young people affected by HIV in southern Africa.
Harry co-founded the charity with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006, naming it Sentebale – which means ‘forget me not’ in the local dialect – in memory of both their mothers.
Harry, 33, and Meghan, 36, enjoyed lunch with sponsors and supporters, starting with canapes including mozzarella ice cream in a Parmesan cone with Wye Valley asparagus.
This was followed by roasted rump of
MEGHAN MARKLE is not, of course, the first glamorous American divorcee to fall in love with, and utterly enchant, a member of the royal Family. Meghan, who grew up in Los Angeles, was married to Hollywood producer Trevor Engelson from 2011 to 2013, before she met Prince Harry at the age of 34.
Wallis Simpson, who grew up in Baltimore, had divorced U.S. naval officer Win Spencer and was still married to her second husband, Ernest Simpson, when she met Edward, then Prince of Wales, in 1931. She was also 34.
Unlike Meghan, of course, Wallis’s royal romance caused a constitutional crisis — King Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 after less than a year so he could marry her. But the physical similarities between both women are indeed startling: both are slender with delicate hands, and have strikingly dark hair worn mostly in a centre parting.
They’re stylish, too. Wallis stuck to a muted palette of beige, taupe and navy — while, with a few exceptions, chic Meghan also tends to shun bright colours. Wallis favoured designer Hubert de Givenchy, while Meghan chose a gown by the same fashion house for her wedding at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in May.
Even the rolls-royce Phantom IV that took Meghan to her wedding was the same car that carried Wallis to her husband’s funeral at that venue 46 years earlier.
But Andrew Morton, author of biography Wallis In Love, says there is one huge, crucial difference between them: ‘Meghan seems to have a sense of wanting to give back, whereas Wallis only ever wanted to take.’