11-04-2025
Meghan Markle Makes Unexpected Trip to New York City After Prince Harry's Ukraine Visit
The royals are on the move! With Prince William, Kate Middleton, and their kids skiing in the French Alps, King Charles and Queen Camilla in Italy, and Prince Harry in the U.K. and later a surprise stop in Ukraine, it has been a busy week for members of the royal family and travel.
Adding to the list? Meghan Markle, who made a surprise trip to New York City on April 10, where she grabbed a bite to eat at Polo Bar before catching Gypsy on Broadway, according to People.
Page Six grabbed photos of the Duchess of Sussex at both the Polo Bar and at the Majestic Theater, wearing a black top, black heels, and a bold houndstooth skirt. In a crossover moment, Gypsy stars Tony winner Audra McDonald, who attended the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awards in 2023, per People; that same night, Meghan was honored as a Woman of Vision Award winner. The outlet also added that McDonald once named Meghan as the living person she most admired—high praise.
'I don't know how she continues to walk through this world with the grace, strength, and purpose that she does given the unbearable amount of vitriol and hate she has been subjected to, but she does,' McDonald told Vanity Fair in 2023. 'I wish she didn't have to.'
On the debut episode of Meghan's podcast Confessions of a Female Founder this week, first guest Whitney Wolfe Herd—founder and CEO of dating app Bumble—echoed those sentiments, telling Meghan, 'When I see the way you've been treated in the media, which is a magnitude I'll never understand, my heart breaks for you. It's not fair and it's brutalizing.'
Herd later added that, while she was at an airport in Ireland, she once saw Meghan's face on the cover of every magazine: 'You were the cover of every single magazine and newspaper in Ireland, and every single one said something different,' Herd said. 'Random headline, random headline. You were the cover of every single one of those magazines, tabloids and newspapers,' to which Meghan added that this happened a couple of years ago.
'I'm in Ireland, she's back home in California with her kids doing school drop off, and she's the front page of every single one of these things?' Herd continued. 'I had this moment where I was like 'Wow, this is a different beast.''
This year has proven to be an incredibly busy one for Meghan, with not just the launch of her podcast but also her lifestyle brand As Ever and her Netflix series With Love, Meghan (not to mention the relaunch of her personal Instagram, which kicked off the New Year on January 1).
This isn't Meghan's first trip to the Big Apple this year, either—she visited on March 3, when she made a surprise appearance the night before the premiere on Netflix of With Love, Meghan to see fans of her former lifestyle blog, The Tig, and while in the city, the Duchess of Sussex filmed an episode of The Drew Barrymore Show (homemade cookies in tow).
Meanwhile, her husband Harry traveled in an unexpected visit from the U.K.—where he was in court this week looking to reestablish security in his home country—to Ukraine, where he visited the Superhumans Center in Lviv, which is a clinic supporting wounded military personnel. Harry—himself a veteran of the British Army, where he served for 10 years and two tours of duty in Afghanistan—was accompanied by a group from his Invictus Games Foundation, founded by Harry in 2014 to support wounded, injured, and sick servicemen and servicewomen, both veterans and those still serving.
'The visit to Superhumans was a powerful reflection of the shared mission between the Center and the Invictus Games Foundation,' Harry's office said on the Sussex website.
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