The scene was one to savour, straight from the pages of that famous self-help manual How To Win Friends And Influence People.
As well-wishers craned their necks and flashbulbs popped, all eyes were drawn to the smiling figure in the strapless gold Johanna Ortiz dress and the Tom Ford high heels who was making her way to the stage.
If it’s one thing we have come to expect about the Duchess of Sussex, she certainly knows how to make an entrance.
Flanked by Harry, cast for once as supportive husband rather than petulant Prince, and her mother Doria Ragland, this was Meghan on a mission. The night was hers and hers alone.
Not even the surprisingly unglamorous arrival at the event, which saw her skirting a Hertz car rental desk at New York’s Ziegfeld Ballroom rather than walking the VIP red carpet — perhaps to avoid awkward questions from the live-stream cameras — could distract from this cameo of exquisite piquancy.
All eyes were drawn to Meghan in the strapless gold Johanna Ortiz dress and the Tom Ford high heels as she made her way to the stage
In January, a poll for Newsweek — one of their principal cheerleaders — revealed that in just a month, Prince Harry’s popularity had plunged 45 points in U.S. public opinion, while Meghan’s had tumbled 36 points
On the surface she was in town to receive a Women Of Vision award at a gala to mark the 50th anniversary of the Ms. Foundation For Women — the organisation set up by veteran feminist Gloria Steinem. But this was no ordinary celebrity back-slapping affair; rather it was a waymark on what increasingly looks like an attempt to relaunch — and quite possibly save — the Sussex brand.
In the U.S., polls and commentators have been saying for months that even Americans — with their huge appetite for soap opera and instinctive sympathy for a supposedly wronged compatriot — were tiring of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s endless bleating about so-called royal injustice and their alleged…
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