Meghan Markle cheerfully embraced a photographer's compliment on her appearance and returned the kind words when she was spotted leaving a restaurant in Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon.
The Duchess of Sussex looked glamorous and stylish as she exited the Gracias Madre restaurant in West Hollywood and walked past the press grinning alongside her two female friends.
Members of the press waiting for her to come out of the restaurant approached her and one person can be heard in a video wishing her "Happy International Women's Day! You look great, by the way".
Before getting in the waiting car, Meghan turned toward the press and joyfully returned the greetings, responding: "Have a good day guys - thank you so much."
Meghan had a broad smile although dressed in all-black. She was wearing dark Valentino sunglasses, white Valentino slip-on mules and a black and white Chanel handbag.
Her appearance came hours after she and Prince Harry announced that their daughter, Princess Lilibet Diana, had been christened in a private ceremony in California.
The couple publicly called her a princess and revealed for the first time that they will use royal titles for their children.
Princess Lilibet Diana, who turns two in June, was baptised on Friday by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, the Rev John Taylor, Harry and Meghan said in a statement.
Lilibet’s title and that of her brother, Archie, who will be four in May, will be updated on the Buckingham Palace website later.
The announcement marked the first time that the children’s titles had been used in public.
The question of the children’s titles took center stage two years ago during Harry and Meghan’s television interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Titles are conferred in line with a decree issued by King George V in 1917 that limits the titles of prince and princess to the male-line grandchildren of the sovereign.
As long as the late Queen Elizabeth II was alive, Harry and his older brother, Prince William, were the sovereign’s grandchildren.
Harry and William’s children, as great-grandchildren, didn’t receive the titles automatically.
But Elizabeth had the power to amend the rules, and in 2012 she decreed that the children of Prince William and his wife, Catherine, would be princes and princesses. This decree didn’t apply to Harry and Meghan.
However, the situation changed when King Charles III ascended the throne on the death of his mother last September. William and Harry are the king’s sons, meaning their offspring are now royal grandchildren and so entitled to be known as prince and princess.
Nonetheless, they have remained a plain “master” and “miss” on the Buckingham Palace website for the past six months.
