A video clip of Meghan Markle taken in 2018 has resurfaced online, with fans claiming it shows the Duchess being “kind” as she offers to hold an umbrella for herself and another man.

In the sweet moment, the Duchess takes an umbrella from a man holding it above her She appears to say: “Thank you.”

She then adds: “I’ll hold it for us.” The pair smile at each other and Meghan then holds the umbrella above both their heads.

The moment was captured during Meghan and Harry’s 16-day visit to Australia, Fiji, Tonga, and New Zealand. The couple undertook 76 engagements across the short period and were met with gushing support from locals, fans, and the media

Sadly, the trip was later cited by Harry as a point of friction in the wider Royal Family He told Oprah Winfrey in 2021: “They were, they were really welcoming [of Meghan]. But it really changed after the Australia tour. After our South Pacific tour.

“That was our first tour. It was also the first time that the family got to see how incredible she is at the job. And that brought back memories.

“Really here you have one of the greatest assets to the Commonwealth that the family could have ever wished for.”

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The clip was reposted by the fan account MeghMarkle, where it has been viewed over 800K times. The account captioned the video: “She’s so kind.”

One fan wrote: “Meghan seems like the sweetest soul. I can never understand why ppl love to constantly tear her down.”

Another commented: “She said ‘I will hold it for us’. She is so sweet inside out.”

“This woman is classy and so loving, keep making us proud beautiful black woman,” one fan wrote.

Another wrote: “Aww. She took it and shared the umbrella. Love her.”

A body language expert, Judi James, analysed the clip and told Express: “When Meghan is handed an umbrella here she offers to hold it herself and shares it with the guest that offered it. Meghan also stood holding an umbrella over Harry’s head as he was making a speech in Australia, which was probably a better measure of her devotion.

“Did holding this umbrella that a man offered look like a sweet gesture? Of course, her smile of gratitude alone made that a cert. But Meghan had spent most of her life as a non-royal so the gesture would also have been instinctive.

“It would have created a dilemma for any other royal tool: sitting while the man next to her held it over her head would have looked unbelievably arrogant and holding it over her own head alone would have led to the same man getting a drenching as the water off her umbrella and onto his head, which would have looked worse.

“Umbrellas are a great social leveller. In the US it is quite common to see Presidents and their partners accompanied by an umbrella-holder at formal events but Meghan obviously had the natural empathy and sense to create the ideal call in this scenario.”



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