Meghan Just Excels In Manners

Five months after marrying, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have embarked on their first major tour. But that wasnt all: a royal baby is on the way, too. Harriet Kean reports

AS MEGHAN MARKLE embarked on her first royal tour of Australia last week, with Prince Harry, news broke that she was pregnant with her first child. Just two days earlier, the couple had reportedly shared their happy news with ‘selected members of the royal family’ at the wedding of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank. According to a source, the announcement ‘wreaked havoc’ with the princess who, it was widely reported, felt ‘upstaged’. (The Duke and Duchess of York continued to tweet about their daughter’s wedding, prompting speculation that they, too, were less than impressed with Meghan’s timing.)

But despite widespread raised eyebrows (one person wrote on Twitter, ‘Sorry, Meghan did WHAT at the royal wedding?’), for others it was yet another sign that the new duchess is rewriting the royal rule book. For further evidence, see news that Meghan baked banana bread as a gift for Australian farmers and that she will give her own speech this week – rare for a new royal; it was almost a year after becoming a duchess that Kate Middleton gave her first solo speech.