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Here’s what a lip-reading expert observed the Duchess of Sussex saying when she cut off her husband before he could get any words out.
Even though Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not officially working royals anymore, they did make a couple of visits abroad in 2024. The couple touched down in Nigeria in May for their first trip and then three months later, traveled to Colombia.
The Sussexes deemed both trips a success, but there was one awkward moment that people still talk about today. That’s when Harry tried to speak to some schoolchildren they were meeting in Colombia, but Meghan didn’t let him.
Here’s more on that and what a lip reader is saying about that moment now.
Lip reader decodes what Meghan said after she interrupted Prince Harry
When the duke and duchess visited Colegio Cultura Popular, a public school in the city center of Bogotá, they met with some children there. Forensic lipreader Nicola Hickling observed that Harry was about to say something, but didn’t get a chance to because his wife had no regard for that and just started talking to the kids herself.
Hickling pointed out that the prince was about to say something to one youngster, but Meghan interrupted that by jumping in and talking to the child first. That resulted in Harry quickly closing his mouth and nodding.
Hicking told The Mirror: “Harry is about to say something (“look”) when Meghan interrupts him and speaks to the boy. Meghan’s eyes are closed and she clasps her hands together. It’s almost like she is straining to speak at first.”
According to the lip reader, Meghan said to the student: “So, so you won an award in products, is that right?’”
Once she finished speaking, Harry recognized that he was free to ask the boy a follow-up question, saying: “How serious were you when you took on this offer?”
The Duke of Sussex was later seen laughing with the children as he tried to count in Spanish. And the former Suits star described the group of students they met that day as incredibly “impressive, smart, and savvy.” She also highlighted the importance of the children aiming to be “self-reliant and not tech reliant” in today’s world.
Meghan does not like being interrupted when she’s speaking
Some found the fact that Meghan interrupted Harry when he was getting ready to say something odd, considering that memes were created after she showed how much she dislikes being cut off by someone else when she’s speaking.
A video went viral in 2023 of the Duchess of Sussex at an event with her mother, Doria Ragland, and Prince Harry when all of a sudden, Meghan’s mom jumped in and talked while her daughter was mid-sentence.
Many commenters picked on Prince Harry’s reaction when that happened.
“Prince Harry looks scared,” one person wrote, while another observed: “Notice Harry caught her death stare and was probably thinking he was glad it wasn’t at him this time.”
A third user posted: “Anybody notice Harry’s eye flutter after he sees her reaction? That tells you something.”
Another chimed in: “Notice how Harry’s eyelids started panic fluttering.”
And a fifth person added: “At least her mother is not afraid of her like Harry is.”
