Why Duchess Meghan’s Trooping the Colour appearance was so different to her first
When Duchess Meghan made her grand return to the world stage at this year’s Trooping the Colour, royal watchers rejoiced.
Accompanied by her husband Prince Harry, Duchess Catherine and Duchess Camilla, the Duchess of Sussex smiled and waved to onlookers from her carriage as it travelled down London’s Mall to Buckingham Palace. One year on from her first Trooping, and things have certainly changed a lot.
Let’s start with her outfit.
In 2018, the newly-married Meghan made her Trooping the Colour debut dressed in a stunning dusty pink Carolina Herrera dress and a hat by Philip Treacy with her doting husband Prince Harry by her side. However, her off-the-shoulder look received a fair bit of backlash from royal watchers.
“It was deemed by some people to be a bit revealing, but personally I couldn’t see any harm in it,” Joe Little, Majesty managing editor, told PEOPLE at the time.
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But for her 2019 look, the Duchess of Sussex took a completely different turn with her outfit, opting for a more conservative, navy blue ensemble by her wedding dress designer Clare Waight Keller.
With those A-line wide sleeves and her hair pulled back into an elegant bun unlike her loose locks of 2018, one could almost say that it was a 180 from her first Trooping look.
And who can blame her? After copping all that criticism, no one would want to deal with that again especially weeks after giving birth.
