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Keep smiling: Meghan Markle shows she has what it takes to be a royal
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It wasn’t exactly Hollywood, but Nottingham was determined to give Prince Harry and Meghan Markle the red carpet treatment for their first public engagement since Monday’s very public engagement.
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A hot water bottle waits in the crowd to greet the couple.
The crowds had started to arrive a couple of hours early and were three or four deep by the time the royal Range Rover pulled up at the top of the street for the couple’s 200-yard walk to the arts centre Nottingham Contemporary for a Terrence Higgins Trust fund-raising fair.
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Some had billed the event as Meghan’s “‘work experience induction day” but the actress proved far too much of a pro at working an audience to show any signs of nerves. She did all that was required of her and more.
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She smiled, she got touchy-feely with Harry, she smiled, she chatted to people, she smiled, she accepted a bouquet of roses, she smiled. The perfect princess.
She even wandered off to smile and chat to people on the opposite side of the road to Harry. Which went down a storm with one section of the crowd, but left those who just got the prince feeling somewhat shortchanged. Shades of Charles and Diana.
This man brought his barn owl to the meet the couple.
The first walkabout had only been scheduled to last a few minutes but ended up taking the best part of half an hour. Which was great for the crowds but put rather a strain on those covering the event for the news channels.
A young spiderman made an appearance in the crowd.
Having exhausted their knowledge of Meghan’s clothes – coat from Canada, the rest from Britain; to their credit, no one had a clue where the bag came from – the commentators found themselves with rather a lot of dead airtime to fill.
Phones are poised at the barriers and in the crowd.
How would Meghan be feeling? Nervous but quietly confident, as she has had a lot of practice appearing in public in a TV show that most people in Britain haven’t seen. Would the Queen have given her any advice?
Harry and fiancee, Meghan Markle, tour the Terrence Higgins Trust World Aids Day charity fair.
Probably not, but all was well as Harry was a great mentor. The veteran royal hack Dickie Arbiter observed that we shouldn’t be too worried about Meghan feeling the cold because, although she had been born in California, she had spent a lot of time in Toronto.
Prince Harry and Meghan wave from the comfort of their car.
Just when it looked like Harry and Meghan had finally made it to the front door of Nottingham Contemporary, they dashed back into the street for an encore. To the manner born. And cut.
Prince Harry and Meghan later visited the Nottingham Academy.
