But is there a deeper meaning behind her dress? She is understood to have chosen the dress for the symbolic meaning of the lotus flower.
Town and Country Magazine reported that the flower symbolises rebirth and spiritual enlightenment and related this to how Markle had once described her experience with online bullying as “unsurvivable”. In fact, Winfrey seems to touch on this relationship with online trolls during her upcoming interview.
“ Almost unsurvivable, sounds like there was a breaking point,” Oprah says in a preview clip for the interview.
Markle’s fashion choices are well known to be influential, if not closely followed by royal watchers and fans alike. In 2019, she was crowned the “Most Powerful Dresser” by global fashion search platform Lyst as part of its latest Year In Fashion report.