The Daily Mail has found yet another way to turn Meghan Sussex wearing a piece of family jewellery into a supposed controversy. Richard Kay and Sarah Vine, the same Daily Mail columnist whose 2017 piece asked why she had a ‘niggling worry’ about Prince Harry and Meghan’s engagement photograph, are asking why Meghan is trying so hard to “stake a claim” on Princess Diana’s legacy after she wore Diana’s diamond‑and‑sapphire butterfly earrings at the David Foster Foundation gala in Victoria, Canada.
Both Kay and columnist Vine agreed the style choice cannot have been a coincidence, with Kay saying it would have taken a considerable amount of research to match the exact jewellery.
‘It does feel to me she is trying to stake a claim on Diana’s legacy,’ he argued.
‘It would have taken an enormous amount of research to find out precisely what Diana wore on a visit to an obscure part of Canada. No offence, but it was a remote part of Canada back in 1986.
‘She does look to me like she’s trying to channel the mother-in-law she never met.’
Vine called it ‘bizarre’ to see Diana’s accessories worn to an ordinary red carpet event, concluding Meghan’s choice was ‘pretty calculated’.
Eden went further, suggesting Meghan is deliberately emphasising her connection to Diana ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Princess’s death.
Daily Mail
The suggestion that Meghan must have conducted extensive research to recreate Diana’s 1986 Canadian appearance overlooks a rather obvious fact: Meghan has owned and publicly worn these earrings since 2018. This was not a piece suddenly unearthed for the Victoria gala.
The Double Standard Is Glaring
The criticism around Meghan wearing jewellery connected to Princess Diana is difficult to take seriously because the basic situation is completely ordinary. Harry inherited personal items from his mother. If he gives some of those pieces to his wife, why would Meghan not wear them? Jewellery is meant to be worn, passed down and kept within families. That is how heirlooms work.
What makes the outrage from them more revealing is the double standard. Kate Middleton wears Diana’s sapphire engagement ring every day, and the press usually frames it as sentimental, touching or a “sweet nod.” Yet when Meghan wears pieces connected to Diana, some critics suddenly act as though she is making a calculated claim on Diana’s legacy.
Other outlets looked at the same earrings and saw precisely what royal fashion coverage normally sees when Kate references Diana: a sentimental family connection. Vanity Fair called the choice a tribute. The Daily Mail somehow turned it into evidence that Meghan was trying to ‘stake a claim.
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Final Thoughts
There is also something strange about commentators behaving as though they have a greater claim over Diana’s possessions and memory than Diana’s own son. Harry does not need permission from royal reporters to decide what happens to personal items he inherited from his mother. If he wants his wife to wear them, that is between Harry and Meghan.
Yet the comparison becomes particularly absurd when commentators attack Meghan for wearing jewellery that came through her husband’s family. They still can’t accept her as Diana’s daughter‑in‑law even in theory. So, seeing physical proof of that connection, they suddenly find it “bizarre.”
And that is the real contradiction. The same media that constantly invokes Diana when discussing Harry somehow becomes territorial about her memory when Harry chooses to share that connection with his wife and children.
Diana’s legacy does not belong to royal correspondents. It does not belong exclusively to William, Kate or the institution. Harry is her son too, and his family is part of that legacy whether certain sections of the press like it or not.
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Eden and Co’s latest moronic speculation, about Meghan Sussex’s jewelry is a continuous and constant obsession by the Mail, which appears to date back to 2018.
Meghan Markle’s earrings ‘were a wedding gift from Saudi Crown Prince’ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article by Rebecca English, et al.
Daily Mail aggrieved columnists STILL cannot accept that Prince Harry doesn’t need their approval on how to celebrate his mother.
The truly horrific thing about this is that this smear campaign, which repeatedly drags Meghan’s entire life through the mud, is apparently cherished and even cheered on by both the political sphere and society as a whole.
To the extent that people who can no longer bear these malicious attacks on every aspect of their lives are driven to take their own lives.
These people have driven a woman and a prince, her man and their son out of the country. Good humans who wanted to devote all her energy to a family that has never spoken out against this smear campaign.
One must therefore assume that the family is complicit in this. This is never tolerable, let alone forgivable.
What a terrible country that has such ‘journalism’.