Meghan, 41, wore the elegant pair of pearl and diamond earrings given to her by her husband’s late grandmother when they took their first engagement together in June 2018, just a month after marrying Prince Harry. The couple traveled on the royal train to Cheshire, where they met with community leaders and watched a performance by local schoolchildren. A lot has happened since then, and Wednesday’s participation in the royal procession that followed Queen Elizabeth’s coffin into Westminster Hall is the first time the Sussexes have taken such a prominent role in a major royal event since stepping down from public duties in January of 2020. Although they attended the Platinum Jubilee thanksgiving service for the Queen at St Paul’s Cathedral in June as “non-working” members of the family, they were not invited to take part in the royal procession. While Harry, 37, joined his brother, the Prince of Wales, to follow the coffin on foot from Buckingham Palace, Meghan, 41, traveled by car with the Countess of Wessex. Her sister-in-law, the Princess of Wales traveled with the Queen Consort, who wore her own shocking piece of jewelery – a distinctive silver stick insect pin which she had previously worn to memorial services.
