When you're a member of the Royal Family with access to the world's most exclusive parties, five-star hotels, and designer labels, you've got to seize the perks when you can.
Earlier this week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it's hotly-anticipated theme for its 2019 Met Gala exhibition 'Camp: Notes on Fashion'. The event will be co-chaired by Anna Winter, Lady Gaga, Harry Styles, Serena Williams and Gucci's creative director, Alessandro Michelle.
As one of Williams' closest friends, who has reportedly been in frequent communication with the tennis star since her US Open defeat in the summer, we wouldn't be surprised to see Meghan Markle make her debut at the fashion industry's most talked about event in the yearly calendar.
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Despite her successful Hollywood career playing paralegal Rachel Zane on the hit show Suits, the 2019 Met Gala would make it the first time the 37-year-old royal to the Met Gala's famous red carpet staircase.
With a love of fashion and a history of wearing outfits from some of the most sought-after designers of the moment - Givenchy Claire Waight Keller, Jason Wu, and Roland Mouret - the Gala would serve as the perfect opportunity for Meghan to show off her fashion credentials and VIP contact list of fashion experts to the 'It' crowd across the Atlantic.
And, let's face it, with this year's theme based on an iconic essay by Susan Sontag about camp's 'love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration', what better way for the royal to throw her support behind a celebration of diversity, sexuality, art, and popular culture?
While Markle's debut at the event would be ground-breaking for the royal family (anyone else dreaming of Markle, Priyanka Chopra, and Serena Williams in matching Gucci on the red carpet?), she wouldn't be the first royal to attend the much-talked about event.
Earlier this year, Princess Beatrice and Charlotte Casiraghi attended the event for the 'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & the Catholic Imagination' theme in in Alberta Ferretti and Anthony Vaccarello, respectively.
Meanwhile, Prince Harry's mother, the late Princess Diana, attended the event in 1996. For the occasion, the royal wore a silky navy slip dress with lace detailing from John Galliano's debut couture collection, and teamed the look with a multi-strand pearl and sapphire choker.
The Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, attended the event two years later for the 50th anniversary of the Costume Institute gala, sporting a strapless velvet column gown with matching shawl.
The 2019 Met Gala would mark yet another way for Markle to show her support for her BFF Serena Williams, months after she was seen cheering her on from the sidelines at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships.
In May, the Grand Slam legend and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, were seen attending Markle's wedding to Prince Harry at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. And, last month, the mother-of-one praised her friend for her first solo charity project, Together: Our Community Cookbook.
If there was ever a defining royal fashion moment to wish for, this is it.
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