After Meghan Markle addressed 2,000 people at the One Young World summit in Manchester in 2022, body language expert Judi James said her red outfit complemented her affectionate remarks towards Prince Harry.
She said: “Meghan’s ‘love language’ has always been about very public verbal and non-verbal declarations of the kind of coy and gushing responses that tend to normally define the wedding stage of a relationship.”
She added to the MailOnline: “The Duchess’ coyness rituals here are used as a nod or a knowing aside to the audience. Telling them she’s ‘thrilled’ to welcome ‘my husband’ to the summit, she performs a secretive-looking smile.
“Her head dips slightly, her cheeks become the ‘apple’ shape of bashful coyness, her brows raise for emphasis and her smile involves a puckering of the lower lip as though she’s trying to self-censor her own signals of being a woman besotted and in love.
“When she refers to ‘my husband,’ her facial movements imply she is momentarily overwhelmed by that love.
“She pauses and her eyes close and the pause seems timed to prompt the whoops and cheers of delight from the audience. When her eyes open again they appear to flick straight to Harry, who is himself sitting in the audience.”
However, the Duke of Sussex did not reciprocate the feelings. He adopted a “frozen” pose while she “giggled breathlessly into her mic.”
Judi said: “His upbringing in the royal family would have been all about emotional suppression in public. His head is lowered and slightly tilted, and his mouth is clamped in an indulgent looking expression.
“When he moves it is to look further downward in a cut-off as though possibly feeling embarrassed, then there is a small tongue-poke to suggest the same before he raises his gaze upwards with what looks like a quick wince of possible discomfort.”
