By Molly Claire Goddard
10:32am PST, Nov 17, 2025
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People noticed Meghan Markle failed to
wear a poppy to honor British veterans when she attended
Kris Jenner's birthday party and the star-studded Baby2Baby Gala in Los Angeles over Remembrance weekend.
Prince Harry, however, affixed the flower to his lapel to show respect to his fellow soldiers.
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Royal expert
Lee Cohen thinks Meghan Markle's choice to not rock the poppy was disrespectful. "Meghan's relationship to Britain appears purely transactional when it suits her. When respect requires effort or humility, she demurs," he wrote for
GB News. "When it requires glamour or victimhood, she embraces it. Meghan's excuse for not wearing a poppy this Remembrance weekend was not simply unconvincing. It was insulting."
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Lee Cohen hinted that Meghan Markle seems to prioritize the glamour of Hollywood over the responsibility of being a royal. "In a way, her absence of the flower was fitting. The poppy is for those who carry a sense of duty, gratitude and loyalty," he wrote. "Meghan has demonstrated time and again that she carries none of these. Better she didn't wear it. She is not worthy of it."
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Despite hobnobbing with Tinseltown elites during the holiday, Prince Harry reflected on what his time in the military and his Englishness mean to him. "Though currently, I may live in the United States, Britain is and always will be the country I proudly served and fought for," he wrote in an essay. "The banter of the mess, the clubhouse, the pub, the stands, ridiculous as it sounds, these are the things that make us British. I make no apology for it. I love it."
