Prince HarryandMeghan Markleare stepping out for a star-studded date night — which happens to fall on their six-month wedding anniversary!
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended the Royal Variety Performance at The London Palladium on Monday, an annual televised event that aids the Royal Variety Charity to benefit hundreds of UK entertainers in need of help and assistance as a result of old age, ill-health or hard times.
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“I said congratulations and she thanked us,” says Wiggins, from Watford, just north of London. “She’s beautiful and has a lovely little bump.”
The Duchess of Sussex then briefly took Harry’s hand as they headed towards the entrance.
The mother-to-be bent down to accept a bouquet of flowers from Darcie-Rae Moyse, 7, dressed in a pink dress and sporting a tiara, inside the London Palladium.
The royal parents-to-be met a number of performers both before and after the show.
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TheHamiltoncast members congratulated Meghan on her pregnancy — and she smiled and thanked them.
Harry greeted the boy band Take That members like old friends — and that might because they are.
Lead singerGary Barlow told the Duchess, “Ask your husband about playing the tambourine of one of our records!”
Barlow later told reporters that the prince had played percussion on “Sing,” his Commonwealth record commemorating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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The couple took their seats in the Royal Box, smiling as Davies welcomed them to their first Royal Variety performance as a couple. He also said the entire audience would like to congratulate them on their “wonderful news.”
“As I believe they say in Royal circles, one is thrilled that two will become three!” he said.
Simon Cowell arrived on stage to introduce the winner ofBritain’s Got Talent, Lost Voice Guy, but was forced to wing it when he wasn’t able to read the teleprompter.
Afterwards, Davies introduced the performance of Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the talented young cellist who performed at Meghan and Harry’s wedding.
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The origins of the Royal Variety Performance date back to 1912, when King George V and Queen Mary agreed to attend a “Royal Command Performance” at the Palace Theatre in London in aid of the Variety Artistes’ Benevolent Fund. In July 1919, the second Royal show was performed and was the first to be billed a “Royal Variety Performance.”
source: people.com
