{"id":330110,"date":"2025-08-09T08:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330110\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T08:39:16","slug":"body-language-expert-reveals-harry-and-meghans-awkward-moment-at-film-premiere-when-they-acted-like-a-list-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330110\/","title":{"rendered":"Body language expert reveals Harry and Meghan’s awkward moment at film premiere when they ‘acted like A-List celebrities’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan <\/a>are used to receiving royal treatment at events.<\/p>\n

So when they\u00a0turned up\u00a0at the Bob Marley: One Love biopic premiere and were given seats three rows from the front of the theatre, they could hardly conceal their shock.<\/p>\n

During the\u00a0glitzy event at the Carib Theatre, the couple chatted with anti-monarchist Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness.<\/p>\n

Analysing photos from last January’s event, body language expert\u00a0Judi James<\/a>\u00a0told the Daily Mail: ‘Meghan seemed to treat this red carpet appearance as a full-blown Hollywood one.<\/p>\n

‘She looked regal and gracious in her elegant ballgown and pulled the kind of moves A-list celebrity couples perform, like the romantic gesture of ownership as she places a hand on Harry’s chest.<\/p>\n

‘Meghan was fully in charge of the steering on the night, gently nudging Harry around and at one point pulling his hand out of his trouser pocket<\/a> so that she could hold hands with him to walk into the venue.<\/p>\n

‘Harry was showing body language signs of anxiety as they posed for their red carpet photos<\/a>, but these increased and peaked once the couple were inside the venue and being ushered to their seats.<\/p>\n

‘While the VIPs were said to be in the front row of the stalls, Meghan was being ushered into her seat three rows back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Prince Harry and Meghan attended the glitzy premiere of the Bob Marley: One Love biopic at the Carib Theatre last January<\/p>\n

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The couple were given seats three rows from the front of the theatre, much to their surprise<\/p>\n

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Body language expert Judi James told the Daily Mail that Harry’s expression showed he was nervous\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘While her smile suggests her expression of utter graciousness was unflinching, Harry clearly hangs back, performing several gestures of reluctance, discomfort and even indecision.’<\/p>\n

The pair’s appearance at the event was controversial due to Harry and Meghan posing with Mr Holness and his wife Juliet.<\/p>\n

Lip reader Jeremy Freeman previously spoke to Femail\u00a0about what Harry and Meghan said to the Jamaican premier about the film.<\/a><\/p>\n

‘It’s amazing,’ Meghan gushed in a brief clip, which was shared to the Mr Holness’s Instagram story.<\/p>\n

Harry appeared to compliment the ‘good job’ that was done on the film, Mr Freeman said.<\/p>\n

‘Nice to… pleased to meet you,’ he added.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the lip reader said Andrew had asked Meghan ‘what she thought of it’.<\/p>\n

‘Yes, it was perfect,’ she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Harry chats to anti-monarchist Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness and his wife, Juliet<\/p>\n

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Judi James told the Daily Mail: ‘Meghan seemed to treat this red carpet appearance as a full-blown Hollywood one’<\/p>\n

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‘Meghan was fully in charge of the steering on the night,’ wrote Judi<\/p>\n

Meghan then pointed to her husband and added: ‘Yes, I’m sure he\u2019ll tell you. It’s perfect.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Sussexes also turned heads as they posed for photos and shook hands with actors at the event.<\/p>\n

They posed with the president and chief executive of Paramount Pictures, Brian Robbins, and his wife, Tracy James.<\/p>\n

Judi James said:\u00a0‘For Harry, public functions in the Royal Family\u00a0have always meant top billing, the best seats in the house and preferential treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘But here there is a more unilateral look, where they were expected to take their own seats and maybe even buy their own popcorn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Harry’s lack of experience in this kind of scenario seems to show through here.<\/p>\n

‘As he walks into the cinema, he hikes his trousers by the belt in a very un-royal gesture, suggesting he is trying to trigger his “people’s prince” persona.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘But as Meghan takes her seat, his anxiety rituals increase as he hangs back, watching with what looks like concern.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The body language expert said: ‘Harry’s lack of experience of this kind of scenario seems to show through here’<\/p>\n

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The pair’s appearance at the biopic was controversial due to them posing with Mr Holness (centre) and his wife, Juliet (second right) at the premiere<\/p>\n

‘He rubs his mouth in a gesture that suggests a desire to speak but a reluctance to say the wrong thing.<\/p>\n

‘The rubbing hand moves to the underneath of his chin, in a self-comfort ritual associated with evaluation and indecision.<\/p>\n

‘In a royal role, gestures like this would alert royal staff that all is not well, but here Harry is just being ushered into his seat next to Meghan.<\/p>\n

‘As he joins her in the stalls he has one hand in his trouser pocket, suggesting he’s dithering rather than just taking his seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘His lips are sucked in, adding to the air of indecision or regret.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Meghan seems to point or beckon to someone behind and it looks clear that there is some kind of a delay to clarify arrangements here.’<\/p>\n

It’s not the only time Harry and Meghan have been accused of acting like celebrities.<\/p>\n

At the Invictus Games in D\u00fcsseldorf in September 2023, Ms James said the pair\u00a0presented themselves as a ‘celebrity power couple’ during a rock star welcome.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Later that year, the Daily Mail’s Richard Eden wrote in his column that Meghan looked more like a Hollywood ‘wannabe’ than a member of the Royal Family.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Meghan and Harry shake hands with the Jamaican premier and his wife at the event<\/p>\n

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The pair with the head of Paramount Pictures, Brian Robbins, and his wife, Tracy James<\/p>\n

Ms James’s comments bring to mind the advice Harry’s grandfather,\u00a0Prince Philip, reportedly once gave to Kate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was quoted by Gyles Brandreth as telling the Princess of Wales: ‘If you believe the attention is for you personally, you’re going to end up in trouble.’<\/p>\n

The Duke of Edinburgh believed that the Queen’s success was down to her belief that the attention is for the role, what the Royal Family does and what they support.<\/p>\n

He added: ‘It isn’t for you as an individual. You are not a celebrity. You are representing the Royal Family. That’s all.’<\/p>\n

While Kate emulated the example set by the Queen, it is not a sentiment Harry or Meghan appear to share.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And this shows in the opinion polls. In March, the latest YouGov poll found Meghan’s popularity in Britain has hit a record low after her favourability rating dropped to just 20 per cent – meaning only Prince Andrew is more disliked than her.<\/p>\n

As for Harry, only 27 per cent of UK adults now have a positive opinion of him. And in a recent poll by the Daily Mail, 92 per cent of royal channel readers said they did not think he should return to the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A graphic showing the Royal Family’s popularity in the YouGov opinion polls\u00a0<\/p>\n

This comes as the Sussexes’ \u00a373million, five-year Netflix contract comes to an end in September and the second series of With Love, Meghan is due for release this autumn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As reports of peace talks made recent headlines, many royal observers hope that this could be a sign of reconciliation between the Sussexes and the Royal Family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But others believe the couple no longer have a place in the royal household after trading their roles for money-making endeavours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What remains clear is that if Harry and Meghan ever did return as senior working royals, they would likely have to re-evaluate their relationship with their own popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan are used to receiving royal treatment at events. So when they\u00a0turned up\u00a0at the Bob…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,92,7721,7719,7718,19425,7720,1281,447,7710,519,448,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-330110","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-dailymail","10":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","11":"tag-duke-of-sussex","12":"tag-harry","13":"tag-judi-james","14":"tag-meghan","15":"tag-meghan-markle","16":"tag-prince-harry","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-royals","20":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114997911072719969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330110","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=330110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}