“Most of the time that I was in the UK I rarely wore color,” Meghan Markle said in the bombshell 2022 Netflix docuseries, Harry & Meghan. “There was thought in that.” The Duchess of Sussex was explaining why she stuck largely to a wardrobe of muted separates during her time as a working royal, anxious not to call attention to herself by inadvertently clashing with the late Queen or another senior member of the family. “I was like, ‘Well, what’s a color that they’ll probably never wear? Camel? Beige? White?’ So I wore a lot of muted tones, but it also was so I could just blend in. Like, I’m not trying to stand out here.” It was an admission that put Markle’s (cerulean) dress for her final public appearance in the UK in a whole new light.
These days, of course, the Duchess dresses for herself–largely in a quintessentially quiet luxury wardrobe of Toteme dresses, designer denim and Hermès flats. So while the nude shade of the royal’s maxi dress for a school visit in Nigeria with Prince Harry today may have evoked her Kensington Palace days, the virtually backless cut (not to mention that tousled boho braid) clearly semaphored Montecito Meghan.
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