The couple looked like the image of pure bliss on the red carpet when they returned to the UK to complete one of their last outings as working royals. However, netizens pointed out that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle showed contrasting images once they thought that people were not looking.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle recently attended the Mountbatten Music Festival, where they looked completely happy and excited on the red carpet. While they were on the car, however, the Duke of Sussex appeared to look sad, while the former actress didn’t have her signature camera-ready smile.
“He does not look like a happy man,” one Twitter user wrote. “He’s not Harry anymore that’s for sure,” another one said. “A picture says a thousand words,” one added, “This is not the Prince Harry we knew,” one fan commented.
But some defended Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, saying that the photo was just taken at the wrong time.
“It’s literally just an unflattering photo. You guys are unhinged,” one wrote. “I think she saw something outside. She is not looking at him. They are fine,” another one pointed out. “You all are just sad lonely people who have nothing constructive to do, but stay at home and criticize, that just sad,” one shared.
While supporters and critics of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are busy arguing about the couple’s photo, a body language expert tried to analyze the whole thing. Judi James claimed that the photo showed a deeper meaning than just the Duke of Sussex looking sad.
“Harry’s smile has vanished here, to be replaced by a very distant, reflective and rather sorrowful looking eye expression,” she said. “It looks eerily similar to the facial expression his mother Diana showed us from the car window once her own rejection from the Royal Family looked inevitable. It emphasizes the fact that, despite all his upbeat grinning poses, his move away from his family and all his ties in the UK is not something that he is doing either easily or without some sadness.”
As for Meghan Markle, Judi James said that she looked tense. The body language expert noted that while the Duchess of Sussex smiles a lot on the red carpet, she looked “angry” when she and her husband were inside the car.
“Meghan’s facial expression is equally in contrast to the red carpet smiles that she has been producing so brilliantly on their last duties in the UK,” she said. “Her brows are puckered into a frown and her eye expression looks angry. Her teeth are displayed, but not in a smile, suggesting tension.”
