{"id":157737,"date":"2025-06-04T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157737\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:46:09","slug":"meghan-markles-quip-falls-flat-with-princess-kate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/157737\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle\u2019s quip falls flat with Princess Kate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1318460_3250409_Untitled-2_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Meghans joke leaves Kate stone faced\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meghan&#8217;s joke leaves Kate stone faced<\/p>\n<p>Prince Harry has shed new light on Meghan Markle\u2019s early days in the royal spotlight, revealing an awkward moment during her debut Trooping the Colour appearance in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in his memoir Spare, the Duke of Sussex described the overall mood among the royal family that day as &#8220;good&#8221; and &#8220;upbeat&#8221; the event coming shortly after he and Meghan returned from their honeymoon.<\/p>\n<p>Meghan was taking part in her first official engagement as a royal when Kate asked what she thought of the event. Meghan, attempting a light-hearted reply, simply quipped: &#8220;Colourful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The joke, however, didn\u2019t land as hoped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A yawning silence threatened to swallow us all whole,&#8221; Harry recalled, suggesting the Princess of Wales wasn\u2019t quite amused by the remark.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the awkward moment, she remained composed throughout her balcony debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a lipreader, the Duchess confided to Harry that she was feeling &#8220;nervous&#8221; during the appearance. Ever the reassuring partner, Harry whispered: &#8220;Okay?&#8221; prompting her to respond, &#8220;Yeah, are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While she looked polished and serene waving to the crowds along the Mall, the exchange hinted at the quiet jitters behind her poised exterior.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Harry was at her side, calmly guiding her through every step of her first major royal outing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan&#8217;s joke leaves Kate stone faced Prince Harry has shed new light on Meghan Markle\u2019s early days in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,22129,66829,7718,13396,64428,7720,1281,447,19663,66828,7710,519,7711,6095],"class_list":{"0":"post-157737","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-falls","12":"tag-flat","13":"tag-harry","14":"tag-kate","15":"tag-markles","16":"tag-meghan","17":"tag-meghan-markle","18":"tag-prince-harry","19":"tag-princess","20":"tag-quip","21":"tag-royal-families","22":"tag-royal-family","23":"tag-uk-royal-family","24":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114625641456890519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}