Author: Kenzie Bryant / Source: Vanities
I look at pictures of Meghan Markle every day. Is that strange? It’s by virtue of my job, of living part of life on Twitter and Instagram while her nuptials with Prince Harry, England’s spare to the heir, rapidly approach. Every single day since her November engagement, there is Meghan Markle.
But I don’t think I was prepared to see her standing in front of me three-dimensionally.Please don’t misunderstand. I’ve never met the soon-to-be royal, or even seen her in person. I have met Madame Tussauds’s Meghan Markle, rendered in wax.
On Wednesday morning, less than a fortnight before the American actress says “I do” in front of God and millions of viewers worldwide, Madame Tussauds in Times Square unveiled its new Markle to press. Past one of the two bars (both open), tour groups, families, and Jimmy Fallon’s excitable, lifeless grin, there was an anteroom that would lead into a recreation of Harry and Markle’s brand-new home. We’d be allowed to go see, shortly, I was told, and until then there was tea and coffee and cucumber sandwiches and assorted pastries. Yes, respectable luncheon food. This is the British royal family we’re here to see, after all.
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When we were finally ushered into the replica of a Victorian parlor, where we were told Markle stood, we had to pass two men in Buckingham Palace guard uniforms. They looked like wax, too, until one of them swayed in a suspiciously human way. (They might as well have been wax, though. When I asked one if I could take a picture of him, he remained stony. Only in New York! And also in London!) There, toward the back of the new “Royal Experience,” was a white wall where a projection looped of a man and a woman in tails serving tea and strawberry cream cake. It’s all intended to make the experience of high tea, which will be offered by the museum over the summer, more lifelike.
In the near-right corner as you walk through the doors, the Queen stood alongside Prince William and Kate Middleton (no Charles)….
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