One of the guests at Meghan Markle's $300,000 baby shower is opening up about her afternoon with the
Duchess of Sussex.
Gayle King said on CBS This Morning that she and other guests were taught how to arrange flowers at the party, and that Markle then donated those arrangements to various charities.
She also said that she could not reveal the gift that she purchased for Markle because the guest of honor did not open any of her presents, choosing instead to wait until she got back to
London and was with
Prince Harry.
Meghan Markle and guests made floral arrangements that were donated to charity at baby shower | Daily Mail Online
Just an observation here: If Catherine had been from Canada or the US, was showered to the max with luxurious meals, accomodations, protection officers and US security, etc. for 4 days, how would she be viewed for not even opening the baby gifts at the shower where she could show her appreciation and delight in her first baby with her best friends?
She would have been raked over the coals of etiquette, that's what. It's really beyond the pale that so much was spent on Meghan, for Meghan, and for Meghan's unborn baby, and Meghan bagged it all up, sight unseen, and trotted back to England with her opulent goods.
I realize the items are likely extremely ostentatious by and large, as was the event in total, but hiding her friends' gifts unopened in bags, boxes, suitcases, etc. doesn't make them less pricey nor likely any less impractical. She's not embarrassed to be ostentatious about status, celebrity names and wealth, she just doesn't want the public to actually see photographs of her at the events luxuriating in the excesses for Baby Sussex. As IF Harry cares about a crib that's a miniature Cinderella coach. LOL.
Oh, and it's quite common, not charitable, to give cut flowers to someone nearby, as they were likely already starting to wilt, aren't always pretty 24 hours later if they donated the ones used in the "floral arranging class", and the alternative is to pay someone to clean up the mess they make. Too bad her mother lives too far away to even get a second hand rose.
, it's big news. For royal fans, It's also a good time to look back at some of the baby and childhood pictures of other members of the Royal family. Hard to resist smiling when looking at pictures from the past.
