Meghan Markle was seen wearing Princess Diana’s £18,000 Cartier watch in new photos for her podcast promotion. The Duchess of Sussex looked glamorous as she showcased the beautiful gold watch that once belonged to her late mother-in-law Princess Diana.
She paired the watch with an additional £5,000 bracelet and a sleeveless deep grey polo-neck Toteme dress. Royal author Phil Dampier expressed his doubts about Meghan’s choice to wear Diana’s jewellery, telling The Sun: “Meghan doesn’t often wear Diana’s jewellery, but to wear it in a photo like this adds to the feeling they are trying to project their royal status.”
This week, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been in the news for rebranding their website. Their previous site, Archewell, now automatically redirects to Sussex.com.
The new website prominently features the couple’s official Royal titles and includes a photograph of them, with the text The Office of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, alongside a Royal coat of arms.
The couple’s controversial decision to launch a Sussex.com site, using Meghan’s coat of arms and their children’s titles, was branded “exploitative in the extreme”.
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Royal historian Hugo Vickers opined: “It goes against everything the Sussexes promised they would not do. They are trading on their royal titles and associations in every way you look at it.
“From the royal coat of arms used to their Sussex titles to the titles of their children. It doesn’t matter what parameters you judge it on, the man on the street would identify those behind the website as part of the royal family. It is exploitative in the extreme.”
The revamped website was launched on Monday, replacing their old Archewell site.
The pair also changed their children’s names on their new website, breaking a 64-year-old Royal naming tradition. Now, Princess Lilibet and Prince Archie are known as Sussex instead of Mountbatten-Windsors.
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The surname Mountbatten-Windsor was decided by the Privy Counsel – the official advisors to the late Queen Elizabeth II – in 1960 and applied to male-line descendants of Her Majesty and Prince Philip.
The news comes as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle hit the slopes during a trip to Canada to promote the Winter Invictus Games.
Daily Express US also understands that the Duchess of Sussex brought her own camera crew to the event in Canada, where she and Prince Harry were extensively photographed.
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