Secrets Behind Meghan's Tour Drobe

ANY PREGNANCY CAN be exhausting. Your hormones are all over the place, your body’s changing rapidly and you develop random aversions to the simplest foods, scents and people that you encounter – not least your blameless partner.

- Laura Craik

Ideally, this is a time in which to keep life simple: pare back, snuggle up, stick on a box set. Or, you could embark on a 16-day, 76-engagement-strong tour 10,000 miles away, on the other side of the world.

Alas, there was no hiding under the radar for the Duchess of Sussex as she set off(flying commercial) on her gruelling trip to Australia – her first official royal tour since marrying her prince in May. Instead, the eyes of the world were upon her, watching gimlet-eyed to see which designers she would bless with her munificence – and what her bump would look like as she did. Of course, she was always immaculately coiffed, in a selection of outfits chosen so diplomatically that even the most critical pundit would have to high-five the efforts of her stylist(s).

It was a given than the duchess would shine a spotlight on up-and-coming Australian designers, and she did, kicking off the first day of her tour in a $1,285 sleeveless ivory fitted dress, aptly named Blessed, by ethical designer Karen Gee. Blessed, indeed: Gee’s website promptly crashed as customers rushed to buy it.