Meghan Markle appeared to pay tribute to her mother-in-law Diana, Princess of Wales, during a four-day tour of Colombia.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, was invited to the country by Vice President Francia Marquez after the politician watched the couple’s two-part documentary on Netflix.
She, along with her husband Prince Harry, 39, arrived in the country on Thursday, where they were greeted by Ms Marquez and her partner Rafael Yerney Pinillo before embarking on a number of further engagements that day.
The next day, the couple visited La Giralda school in Bogotá, with Meghan wearing a Pair of gold butterfly-shaped earrings previously owned by the late royal for her appearance.
Eagle-eyed royal watchers noticed Meghan sporting the jewels, which were worn for the first time For the late Diana, Princess of Wales on his royal tour from 1986 to Canada.
While visiting a school in Colombia on Friday, Meghan Markle wore a pair of butterfly-shaped earrings that previously belonged to her late mother-in-law Diana, Princess of Wales.
The then Princess of Wales was seen wearing the jewels during a trip with the then Prince Charles in May of that year.
The appearance came a year and a half after Diana gave birth to Prince Harry.
During their trip to La Giralda School, Harry and Meghan took part in an art session and planted trees.
They also visited the school’s “social and emotional gym,” which teaches students mental and physical exercises to balance their mental health and personal well-being.
The students demonstrated their personal meditation techniques to the couple and presented them with gifts and handwritten letters.
Harry and Meghan posed for photos alongside young people dressed in traditional costumes.
The school is located in the Santa Fe neighborhood of Bogotá, considered a particularly dangerous and violent suburb.
Described as Bogotá’s red-light district, it is known for its deadly mix of prostitution, drugs and violence and, according to locals, is best avoided at night.
Diana, Princess of Wales, is pictured wearing the earrings during a royal tour to Canada in May 1986.
It was featured in the Apple TV series No Go Zones – The World’s Toughest Places – and was described as an area where ‘Colombian gangsters and pimps are in charge and all manner of homeless people and addicts find their way into the Bogotá wasteland’.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were escorted to a school amid tight security with at least 16 armoured police vehicles, as well as armed officers and soldiers, seen on patrol ahead of their arrival.
The visit to the school, which is surrounded by run-down apartment buildings and several abandoned favelas clinging to nearby hillsides, comes despite Harry expressing concerns about its security measures when he visits the UK.
Friday’s engagement wasn’t the first time Meghan has worn the earrings: In 2018, she was seen sporting them during her tour with Harry in Australia.
Diana left much of her jewellery collection to her sons’ future wives. She expressed her wishes in a letter which read: “I should like you to allocate all my jewellery to the share which will belong to my sons, so that their wives may, in due course, have or wear it.”
