Meghan Changing The Royal Rule

How Meghan Markle Is Modernizing The Monarchy

- 

WHEN Meghan Markle arrived at London’s Royal Academy of Arts on Sept. 25 for her first solo event as the Duchess of Sussex, she exited her chauffeured vehicle, gamely shook a greeter’s hand and — gasp! — shut her own car door. The gesture — which strayed from royal family protocol, in which attendants tend to pesky things like door-closing — sent royal watchers’ tongues wagging. But it was just another subtle way that the duchess has taken a stance against stuffy tradition. “Meghan’s always been independent,” explains an insider, “and she’s started writing her own rules.”

MAKING WAVES

From the moment Meghan, 37, married