If you’ve been obsessively following the royal family like I have, you already know everything there is to know about Meghan Markle. But I’m willing to bet that you didn’t know she recently cut her hair, did you? And that’s because the alleged haircut was, most likely, done in secret—exactly so you wouldn’t notice.
According to PopSugar, Meghan recently got an itty-bitty haircut, right in the middle of her crazy-public November schedule, which she debuted at the Remembrance Day Sunday service. Well, not exactly debuted—more like showed up, and a bunch of eagle-eyed beauty editors happened to notice some shorter, choppier layers around her face.
And though, sure, it’s totally possible that the wind was blowing Meghan’s hair just right, and a layer fell perfectly over another layer, and the angle of the camera and the sun and the stars aligning just gave Meghan the illusion of a shorter trim, I’m willing to bet the Duchess really did just chop off the ends of her hair.
So why all the secrecy? Well, it’s not because Meghan hates you personally and wants to hide her life from you—it’s so the world won’t freak out over every little hair change she makes (even though I’m kind of doing it right now).
If she did, in fact, get a secret haircut, it’s a trick that she picked up from Princess Diana, who was so heavily media scrutinised, she had to cut her hair in quarter-inch increments. “Whatever I did to her hair became front-page news,” said Princess Diana’s hairstylist in a rare interview with Town & Country earlier this year. And the same scrutiny has been true for both Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle.
To keep focus on the important work the Royal family is doing, Princess Di, and, possibly Meghan, too, opted for secret haircuts, giving her the illusion of perfectly healthy, never-changing hairstyles. Crazy, huh?
Ah, what it would be like to be so famous, people write long articles about whether or not you trimmed the ends of your hair. What a wild, wild world we live in. And now you're complicit. Sorry!
Chloe Metzger is the deputy beauty director at Cosmopolitan, overseeing the editorial content and growth strategy of the hair, makeup, and skin space on digital, while also obsessively writing about the best hair products for every hair type (curly girl here; whattup), and the skincare routines that really, truly work (follow her on Instagram to see behind-the-scenes pics of that magazine life). She brings nearly a decade of writing and editing expertise, and her work has appeared in Allure, Health, Fitness, Marie Claire, StyleCaster, and Parents. She also has an unhealthy adoration for Tom Hanks and would like to please meet him one day, if you could arrange that. Thanks.
