How Meghan worked her charms at the UN

THE Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s visit to the United Nations in New York was a tense affair at the weekend, as the two were accused of launching themselves as a ‘rival Royal Family’. And clearly Meghan felt she needed some extra help.

I can reveal she wore a necklace designed to ward off ‘bad vibes’ at her meeting with U.N. bigwig Amina Mohammed. The piece, from jeweller Alemdara, founded by former Tatler journalist Mariella Tandy, is a £450 hamsa hand — famed for countering negativity. An evil eye also features, said to protect against malicious spirits.

‘It’s got an evil eye on the chain and the hand of hamsa, so you get double protection,’ Tandy tells me. ‘We get a lot of them gifted when someone is pregnant, and sometimes they buy an evil eye for the baby as well.’