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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Royal Tour of Colombia: Inside the Fashion and the Fallout

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Aug 27, 2024 6:22 pm·

By Mark McGarry

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South American style! Meghan Markle showed off multiple outfits during her “quasi royal” tour of Colombia with Prince Harry in August. And thanks in part to her jewelry — including a $22,300 gold Tank Française watch that belonged to her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana — the duchess wore upward of $200,000 in clothing and accessories over four days.

But her fashion wasn’t the only reason for raised eyebrows. Harry and Meghan are now facing major blowback over their four-day trip to the South American country.

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Ulterior Motive

“Locals suggested the visit was really meant as distraction for the Colombian president’s corruption scandal,” a source exclusively tells In Touch of the invitation, which the vice president said she extended after seeing the Sussexes’ Netflix documentary.

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Meghan and Harry Royal Tour the Fashion Fallout

Facing the Fallout

Before they even left the U.S., their chief of staff, who was supposed to be by their side, quit after just three months on the job, “and Harry was subjected to embarrassing speculation about whether he’d apologize for the cocaine use he wrote about in Spare,” a source tells In Touch. “Now they’re facing even more fallout.”

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Harry Got Handsy

Though the mayor of Cali called Harry’s attempts at speaking Spanish “actually quite good,” and Meghan demonstrated an even better command of the language, the couple did employ an interpreter — whom the prince seemed awfully cozy with on his first day in Bogotá. “Sitting very close to the translator with his arm around her chair! Harry will be in for it when he gets home!” noted one royal watcher on X, with another predicting he would face “the wrath of Meghan.”

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Marital Tensions

Royal watchers pointed to a moment of heightened tension on August 15 when Meghan interrupted her husband to speak to a student. “It’s almost like she is straining to speak at first,” lip reader Nicola Hickling told the U.K. newspaper The Mirror. It’s not the first time she’s silenced her husband, notes the source: “Meghan is known for shutting him up in public by making a sharp or ‘witty’ comment.”

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Security Issues

Harry has long complained he can’t bring his family back to the U.K. because it wouldn’t be safe. (He even fought the British government over paying for his security.) But he didn’t think twice about going to Colombia, a country the U.S. Department of State advises citizens to reconsider traveling to because of the increased risk of crime, terrorism, civil unrest and kidnapping. The couple also faced criticism over the $2 million security bill that would be footed by the financially strapped nation for their visit.

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