Any member of royalty must follow a strict protocol to the letter and a series of rules of behavior that, although they are not written, must also be observed by members of the royal family.
While Kate Middleton conforms to what is established in her position as Princess of Wales and wife of the heir to the British throne, Meghan Markle no longer have to take care of violating these guidelines that sometimes seem outdated.
Things Meghan Markle can (and does) do that Kate Middleton can’t:
The ‘royal’ fashion
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has always had a more casual style of dressing. In the Netflix documentary of her, she claimed that she welcomed Kate and William to her house the first time she invited them to dinner, in ripped jeans and barefoot.
But, being part of the royal family requires more formality, women are expected to wear hats to formal events during the day and tiaras to formal events at night.
Meghan was heavily criticized for not wearing a hat to her first engagement with the queen in 2018, according to what royal correspondent Katie Nicholl told the magazine. Glamour.
Markle said, in her same documentary, that in the UK she wore neutral colors because she couldn’t wear the same color as the queen or senior members of the royal family.
baby protocol
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Kate of Wales and Prince William have three children, George, 9; Charlotte, 7, and Louis, 4, and at the birth of each of them, they followed the protocol indicated for a birth of the English royal family, including organizing a photo call leaving the hospital with the baby and doing a royal christening in which the children wore robes worn by hundreds of royal babies before them.
Meghan and Harry, on the other hand, did things their own way. there was no photo call and, instead, they chose a select group of photographers who were invited to Windsor Castle a couple of days after the birth of their first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, born in 2019.
When Princess Lilibet Diana, their second baby, was born in 2021, they no longer belonged to the active royal family, so the birth was completely private, there was no photo call no royal christening Instead, she was christened in a small private ceremony, with actor Tyler Perry as her godfather.
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Vote
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Members of the royal family are required to be politically neutral, and it is rumored that it is against etiquette to discuss politics openly in public.
Prince Harry seemed to confirm this rumor in the television program dedicated to the 100, from the magazine Timein 2020, in which he claimed he never voted in the UK in his life.
Meghan, born in the United States, became the first member of the royal house of England to vote in a US election. In November 2020, Meghan and Harry’s Archewell Foundation shared a photo of the Duchess of Sussex wearing an “I Voted” sticker.
Selfies
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Meghan denied a fan a photo in her first round of greetings in Nottingham with Prince Harry. According to royal reporter Victoria Murphy, who reported it on Twitter, the Duchess told this person: “We are not allowed to take selfies.”
However, once she and her husband “broke” with the royal family, Meghan also broke this rule because according to the newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald She took several selfies with her followers during her visit to Germany when she attended an Invictus Games event, created by Prince Harry, with her husband.
Kate also broke this rule. During a royal engagement in Leeds, England, in January this year, the Princess of Wales took a selfie with a nervous fan. Even she told him. “Do not worry everything is fine. We all get nervous sometimes” as witnessed by a video shot by royal reporter Cameron Walker posted on Twitter.
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