{"id":476238,"date":"2025-10-05T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476238\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T16:40:10","slug":"the-last-ditch-effort-meghan-markle-visibly-made-to-show-all-is-well-comes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/476238\/","title":{"rendered":"The last ditch effort Meghan Markle visibly made to show \u2018all is well&#8217; comes out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/627092_2987667_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Markle\u2019s last ditch effort to show Kate she can \u2018cope under pressure\u2019 remembered\" width=\"828\" height=\"619\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meghan Markle\u2019s last ditch effort to show Kate she can \u2018cope under pressure\u2019 remembered<\/p>\n<p>A body language expert has just taken a trip down memory lane to recount what Meghan Markle\u2019s perky beret and a superhero-style bright green cape.<\/p>\n<p>The expert in question is Ms Judi James and she just spoke to the Daily Mail. <\/p>\n<p>The event this observation takes into account is from a 2020 service at Westminster Abbey to mark Commonwealth Day.<\/p>\n<p>Noting everything, from the moment Meghan entered, to what went down afterwards, Ms James said, \u201cArriving in her perky beret and a superhero-style bright green cape, Meghan\u2019s body language for this tense final royal public outing before Megxit oozed strength and resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She even called Meghan a woman holding a \u201cindestructible perma-smile\u201d that never wavered. <\/p>\n<p>On the flip side her husband Prince Harry looked \u201cvisually dissolved, from his anxious self-soothing body and jacket touch rituals to his scowling and even tearful appearance towards the end of the service,\u201d Ms James said.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely \u201cMeghan appeared to draw on muscle memory to sit smiling throughout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To the expert this smile which seemed to endure \u201cas the family fractured before our eyes showed that Meghan \u201creally did have what it takes to be a royal,\u201d as part of her last ditch effort. <\/p>\n<p>According to Ms James this \u201cperma-smiling under pressure is a key skill that the late Queen, Queen&#8217;s mother and Kate always excelled at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While getting into the the particulars she said, \u201cwhile the other royals sat stony-faced and still, Meghan was animated and chatty with Harry. Their heads leaned together in a gesture of trust and exclusivity and when they used eye contact both emerged with re-energised smiles as though Harry was feeding off his wife\u2019s positivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At times it looked almost as \u201cthough she was taking the lead and offering him a gesture to mirror because without it he was mirroring the sad expression of his brother here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>s &#8216;smile and wave&#8217; technique appears to have a mere short-term impact on Harry, noting that &#8216;every time she looked away, Harry seemed to struggle&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;much more painful for both Harry and the front-row royals&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle\u2019s last ditch effort to show Kate she can \u2018cope under pressure\u2019 remembered A body language expert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-476238","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-harry","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115322554217071668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476238","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=476238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}