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By Samir Hussein/WireImage.
On Thursday, Meghan Markle and her prince scooted down to Tonga from Fiji , a quick 90-minute flight—just long enough to watch, I don’t know, Office Space on the royal television, and make each other laugh by floating what they think “office culture” means. They deplaned at Fua’amotu Airport in Nuku’alofa, where grass-skirted singers welcomed them to the country’s capital. On hand to welcome them was Her Royal Highness the Princess Angelika Latufuipeka, daughter of King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau’u Tuku’aho, the eldest child and only daughter.
The return tag on Markle’s Tongan-flag red Self Portrait dress was left on for five whole minutes, long enough for plenty of photos to capture it. What does this mean? Meghan Markle is just like us. Sing it from the rooftops: Meghan Markle is just like us! She’s only newly a Duchess of Sussex in the royal family, and before that, she was an actrice on a television show filmed in sexy Toronto, and before that, she was . . . a communications major at Northwestern? The point is that the barrier betwixt this world and the next, where the stars live, is still thin for her. Things slip through the portal. Like this tag.
If any redemption was needed for an ordinary stumble, it came later in the duchess’s third outfit of the day (the first was the Jason Wu she wore to board the plane in Fiji). She wore a white column gown with cap-sleeves by Theia to a private audience with King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau’u at the Consular House (reception to follow). Along with the dress came Princess Diana’s aquamarine ring, which Meghan wore to the couple’s wedding reception. And there will be plenty more opportunities as they embark on the third and final leg of their Down Under tour. On Friday, they head on to Sydney for the close of the Invictus Games, and then it’s off to New Zealand.
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