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Meghan Markle is once-again breaking royal protocol. This time by celebrating her and Prince Harry’s first child with a baby shower.
Several US entertainment sites are reporting that the Duchess of Sussex has been spotted in New York City and is there to hold a baby shower with her closest friends.
Page Six reports her forbidden baby shower will be held at a hotel in Manhatten with her besties, including stylist Jessica Mulroney, on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST).
Meghan isn’t the only royal to break the rules…
While the location of the reported celebration is no doubt more convenient for her US-based friends, it also may have been chosen to help get around a strict royal rule.
Apparently, as reported by the Express, the royals do not have baby showers.
According to royal etiquette expert, Victoria Arbiter, such celebrations are frowned upon by the royal family.
Arbiter said that this is because royals, including and Meghan and Harry, can afford everything their baby needs, and baby showers, in the traditional sense, are about showering the expectant mother with baby items.
Also, as with their wedding, the royal couple isn’t supposed to accept gifts at all. So it could be that anything the 37-year-old gets given at her party she’ll have to return or regift.
The former Suits actress arrived in the Big Apple on Friday and on Saturday was spotted enjoying some macarons at a bakery, Harper’s Bazaar reported.
Us Weekly reported that she also visited a baby store. So maybe even if Meghan can’t receive baby essentials as gifts, she still might bring some home for their unborn bub, who is expected to arrive in April or early May.
Top Comments
I read an article this morning that noted that all of the people in attendance were her pre-Harry friends, no one new. She's been living in the UK for a while now, so it's actually pretty sad that she hasn't made any new friends.
The amount of merching going on is obscene. Her thirst and need for publicity is just embarrassing. Anyone who doesn't think this whole thing is choreographed has got to be kidding.
Sharp contrast between the two brothers' public images. William and Kate, low key and family focused. Harry and Meghan, publicity craving celebrity wannabes. Apparently, one of the attendees to the baby shower had never met Meghan.
So far, Meghan's managed to maintain a pretty glitzy celebrity lifestyle. This event has all been 5 star, she frequently turns up to events in outfits worth thousands of pounds. The royal family is pretty careful to not display a "splash the cash" image, so you'd think sooner or later M&H are going to be told to rein things in.
I fear they've probably already been told, but choose to ignore good advice. It would be foolish to assume this latest stunt wasn't all carefully choreographed and orchestrated to maximise exposure to her "brand" (and the stuff she and her mates are merching). She's still behaving like a D-list blogger celebrity rather than the role into which she has married. Next her PR camp will be releasing statements about how hurt she is about being criticised for being tacky and thirsty.
So classy to do a pap walk and collab with The Daily Mail while she was there "incognito". Awaiting the shower pics to "leak" soon...