The one royal fashion rule Meghan Markle has already broken
There’s one thing that women in the royal family are required to wear at all times, and for us laypeople, usually it’s something we don’t even notice – stockings.
“You never see a royal without their nude stockings,” royal expert Victoria Arbiter told Insider.
“I would say that's really the only hard, steadfast rule in terms of what the Queen requires.”
Yes, even when she appears to be baring her legs Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, is in fact wearing sheer nude pantyhose.
But Meghan Markle, admittedly not quite yet a royal, appears to have broken protocol by ditching the tights on a number of occasions – even reportedly during her and Prince Harry’s official engagement photo call.
“Meghan, from what I can see from the engagement photographs, it doesn't look like she was wearing tights or stockings,” Arbiter said. The horror!
But that’s not the only royal fashion rule she’s broken.
Just this week, during their visit to Edinburgh in Scotland, Meghan wore a cross-body bag, shunning the traditional clutch bag usually favoured by royal women.
As found out last year, the Duchess of Cambridge (among other female members of the royal family) always carries a clutch to avoid unwanted handshakes.
“When the Duchess is at an event, she holds her bag in front of her in both hands when shaking hands might be awkward,” royal etiquette expert Myka Meier told Good Housekeeping.
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