Prince Harry paid a compliment to his cousin Zara Tindall during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Friday, a professional lip reader has said. The Duke of Sussex was speaking to the Queen's grand-daughter outside St Paul's Cathedral with his wife, Meghan Markle.
The Mirror reports that Harry and Meghan had a friendly chat with Zara at the family reunion. Professional lip reader Jeremy Freeman said Harry told Zara, who had just given birth to son Lucas when they were last together in public: "You lost some weight."
Mr Freeman said it's possible Zara possibly told her cousin: "No I haven't, how do you know". It is then said that Harry appears to have added: "I know" and following up with a "yay".
Meghan also told the mum-of three: "Well done you look great," according to Mr Freeman.
As Harry and Meghan happily spoke with the Tindalls and the duke’s other cousin Peter Phillips, Harry did a little shimmy and Zara appeared to point out where the Sussexes’ car was.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex returned to the royal fold for the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations – but their relegated seats were a telling sign of their change in status. Far across the aisle from the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Harry and Meghan sat in the second row, behind the Wessex family and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.
Working royals filled the front-row chairs, meaning there was no place there for Harry and Meghan in the prime positions. They no longer use their HRH styles and the event was their first public appearance alongside the Windsors since they stepped down as senior royals two years ago amid the Megxit storm.
They did however make a solo procession, holding each other’s hand, down the nave of St Paul’s Cathedral, after the rest of the mass of more than 40 royals and before future king Charles and the Cambridges.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex had returned to the royal fold for the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations – but their relegated seats were a telling sign of their change in status. Far across the aisle from the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Harry and Meghan sat in the second row, behind the Wessex family and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.
Working royals filled the front-row chairs, meaning there was no place there for Harry and Meghan in the prime positions. They no longer use their HRH styles and the event was their first public appearance alongside the Windsors since they stepped down as senior royals two years ago amid the Megxit storm.
They did however make a solo procession, holding each other’s hand, down the nave of St Paul’s Cathedral, after the rest of the mass of more than 40 royals and before future king Charles and the Cambridges. They were personally escorted by Lieutenant Colonel Sir Alexander Matheson of Matheson, the Queen’s Senior Gentleman Usher.
With little happening at grand choreographed royal occasions by chance, it appeared to be a recognition of Harry’s place as sixth in line and a former spare to the heir and of the way things used to be. Meghan, in an elegant Dior trench coat and matching hat, smiled as she walked through the church, while Harry bit his lip at times, while also nodding greetings to members of the congregation.
There was no obvious interaction shown on the television camera between Harry and his brother William, who have long faced a rift, nor the duke and Charles who have also had a troubled relationship, or between Meghan and Kate. Just over a year ago, Harry and Meghan accused an unnamed member of the royal family, not the Queen nor the Duke of Edinburgh, of racism and painted the monarchy as an uncaring institution in their controversial Oprah interview.
Kate was publicly singled out by Meghan for allegedly making her cry in the run-up to her wedding.
