Royals Don't miss out on the headlines from Royals. Followed categories will be added to My News. When Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex made a surprise appearance on the red carpet for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Gala on Sunday night, LA time, it was in a familiar dress.

She wore sculptural red Carolina Herrera number, reworked, de-frou-froued, made slicker and far more sophisticated. It was the perfect visual metaphor: Gone was the princess fantasy of the last time she wore it in November 2021, in its place a confident, modern woman stepping out on her own. I know – deep.

Unlike at the glittering black tie New York event where the duchess debuted the frock in November 2021, this time Prince Harry was nowhere to be seen, the couple not clasped together, their hands not entwined, their bodies not leaning instinctively towards one another. Is everything okay inside the House of Sussex? Meghan rocks the red dress solo over the weekend ..

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. and with Harry back in 2021. Picture; Dia Dipasupil/Getty I ask not because Meghan had the effrontery to leave the house without her husband, but because with this outing we have just crossed a major threshold: The duke and duchess have just spent the longest period apart since Meghan moved to the UK in 2017.

Recent days have seen a surge of reports about the Sussexes’ union, with claims that they are “spending more and more of their down time apart”, are “drifting apart”, with it being claimed that Harry “wa.