Meghan Markle attended the LA Children’s Hospital gala on Saturday wearing a scarlet Carolina Herrera dress and matching high-heeled strappy sandals.
Her barely-there shoes, which showed her feet, marked a radical departure from the type of footwear she usually opted for.
It has been claimed in the past that Prince Harry’s wife “hated” her feet and that she typically wore long hemlines, high heels, ballet flats, boots or sneakers, meaning her toes were always hidden from view. .
In July of this year, while attending the ESPY Awards at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, she wore a dress so long that it looked like several inches at the bottom of the dress were dragging on the floor.
However, when she sat down, it was possible to glimpse her open-toed sandals and what appeared to be an immaculate pedicure, although only one foot was visible.
Meghan Markle is pictured attending the 2024 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Gala in California on October 5, wearing a scarlet Carolina Herrera dress and matching high-heeled strappy sandals.
Then, just a few weeks later, while visiting Colombia with her husband Harry in mid-August, she opted for open-toe shoes again: She wore two pairs of sandals, this time paired with shorter dresses, showing off her feet to everyone.
There has been much speculation about Meghan’s feet, with some suggesting that she has often worn clothing that is several centimeters too long to hide her from public view.
While part of the Royal Family, there were only a small number of occasions where she was photographed wearing sandals, including once during a visit to Samoa.
Officially, it is believed that there is no specific “royal rule” prohibiting its use; However, they rarely show off during official engagements.
As etiquette expert William Hanson said Harper’s Bazaar: “Open-toed shoes are considered casual footwear and inappropriate for formal occasions.”
At the time, every time Meghan performed a public engagement with Prince Harry, she wore high heels.
Before that 2018 royal tour, she had never been seen in flats during royal engagements, not even on a sporting occasion like visiting Dublin’s Croke Park.
Some speculated that the duchess, who is 5ft 6in, would always wear high shoes in a bid to minimize the height difference with Harry, who is 6ft 1in, saying the canny former actress would know how a height discrepancy between two people can create an ‘unbalanced’ look in images.
Her barely-there shoes, which showed her feet, marked a radical departure from the type of footwear she usually opted for.
SANDALS: After years of hiding her feet by wearing overly long clothing, as well as closed-toe shoes, boots and sneakers, the 43-year-old has recently been seen wearing open-toed shoes, exposing her feet (Meghan and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex photographed at the El Vallado Recreational Unit on August 18, 2024 in Cali, Colombia)
While visiting Colombia in mid-August this year, Meghan was photographed wearing two pairs of open-toe flats, including this T-bar style pair. She also slipped on a pair of low-heeled sandals.
Speaking in 2020, the cameraman claimed that on set she had strict rules about never shooting feet and she “hated” them. Photographed in Colombia
Speaking to Femail at the time, celebrity photographer Glenn Gratton told Femail: “Couples with a large height difference look slightly unbalanced in photographs and often the shorter of the two ends up looking even smaller and He is constantly looking at his partner.
‘Rod Stewart and his wife Penny have a big gap, but this is minimized if Rod wears Cuban heels and Penny doesn’t wear super high heels.
“In the case of Harry and Meghan, she will wear high heels to maximize her height and shorten the distance if possible.”
In the past it has been claimed that Meghan did not like her feet. One of those claims came from an industry videographer who worked closely with the former Suits actress before she met Prince Harry.
Speaking in 2020, the cameraman claimed that on set she had strict rules about never shooting feet and she “hated” them.
Another story about her dislike of her feet came from author Thomas Bower, who wrote about the subject in his book Revenge: Meghan, Harry And The War Between The Windsor.
Bower alleged that in the past, Meghan asked to have her feet digitally ‘fixed’ in photographs after a photo shoot.
In 2015, Reitmans, Canada’s largest women’s clothing retailer, asked the then-Suits actress to be a brand ambassador. He then went on to design a capsule collection for the brand.
Following a photo shoot for Reitmans, Bower alleged that Meghan ‘sent countless demands about changes to her lipstick color and waist’ during the post-production phase.
Another request, according to Bower, was related to some open-toe sandals she was wearing.
He is alleged to have sent an email: ‘Please fix my feet. Unfortunately, I get slaughtered online because (sic) people destroy my feet.”