From striped blazers to crisp button-down shirts, off-the shoulder jackets to tailored tuxedos, slinky leather skirts to sophisticated ballgowns. . . Meghan, Duchess of Sussex is rapidly becoming fashion's ruling queen of style. A bona-fide fashionista before she joined the House of Windsor, Meghan has become a global style icon, renowned for her contemporary, elegant and occasionally edgy aesthetic. Her sense of style and fashion has evolved from her days as a classic California girl and time as a `Deal or No Deal' TV hostess through the years on legal drama `Suits' and now as a Royal Duchess. As the beloved wife of Prince Harry, mum-to-be Meghan has the fashion world at her Manolo Blahnik-shod feet. What she wears, women around the world long to emulate in order to get a flavour of that unique `Markle-Style Sparkle'. HRH, The Duchess of Sussex is the most fashion-literate, style-savvy Royal there has ever been. . .
Alison James is a History Graduate and Showbiz Journalist who writes about royals and celebrities for the Daily Mail, the Daily Express and Yours magazine in the UK.
* A bona-fide fashionista long before she married into the British Royal Family, now Meghan is an HRH she has become a global style icon, renowned for her contemporary and elegant aesthetic.
* As a mixed race American woman, Meghan has mass appeal on both sides of the Atlantic – and around the world. When it comes to fashion and style, she is even more influential than sister-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge, due to her ethnicity, nationality and former career as an actress of international standing.
* Tailored tuxedos on official engagements, an off-the-shoulder suit jacket for the Trooping of the Colour, a leather mini skirt on an overseas visit. . .? Meghan is breaking the mould when it comes to Royal fashion. She is also breaking the internet. The websites of her favoured designers crash within minutes of her wearing something new while the off-the-peg garments she dresses in, sell out just as quickly.
* Everything Meghan wears makes headlines – and millions for her designers of choice - as women around the world copy her style and fashion choices.
* Thanks to interviews she gave while still acting and also posts she wrote for her now defunct blog ‘The Tig’, we know how she really feels about fashion, style and what inspires her.
