Is This The £18 Lip Gloss Meghan Wanted To Borrow From Kate?

Jun 05, 2023

As revelations continue to hit the headlines in the wake of Prince Harry's sensational memoir Spare being leaked last week, and his interview with royal correspondent Tom Bradby hitting ITV at 9pm on Sunday evening, commentators are beginning to home in on the granular details. 'Beardgate' is already trending - read up on all the details here - and then there's the lip gloss story.

In a segment that made its way into the ether by way of leaked Spanish editions of Spare, Harry recalls an 'awkward moment' between his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and Kate, the Princess of Wales. According to Harry, Meghan asked to borrow Kate's lip gloss when she forgot hers. This was during a joint appearance for the Royal Foundation Forum in 2018. In the translation of Spare's Spanish copy, Harry remembers, 'Kate, taken aback, went into her handbag and reluctantly pulled out a small tube. Meg squeezed some onto her finger and applied it to her lips. Kate grimaced.'

While we can't speak to the dynamics of the encounter ourselves, we can speculate upon the lip gloss in question. The clues thus far? It comes in a 'small tube' and can be squeezed out. That takes a whole lot of cult lip gloss classics off the table, ones in hard plastic tubes for example, others with wand applicators.

And here's the biggest indicator. While the royals are notoriously discrete when it comes to the beauty products they favour, Kate has been caught on camera reapplying a beauty editor-approved lip gloss that fits the bill perfectly. Meet the Clarins Natural Lip Perfector.

Watching a centre court match at Wimbledon back in 2019, Kate pulled the pink tube out of her bag for a quick touch-up. It's a moisture-rich formula that delivers gloss in abundance, and it comes in a number of different shades. We think Kate's might have been Apricot Shimmer, and if Meghan's beauty style so far is anything to go by - she's a fan of natural-looking, rosy shades when it comes to her lips and cheeks - it's one that would have complemented her make-up look on the day perfectly.

Whether it's the beauty buy at the centre of this leaked scenario or not, the fact that the Clarins Natural Lip Perfector is Duchess-approved is incontrovertible.

Kate Middleton was caught on camera taking out a Clarins Instant Light Natural Lip Perfector for a quick reapplication in the middle of a match on centre court. Shop the Intense Maple shade in the Amazon Prime Day sale.

Intent on snapping up one closer to Kate Middleton's go-to shade? Shop Apricot Shimmer.