Prince William was trying to suppress anger while Harry looked tired at royal event, says body language expert
Prince William and Kate attended the Commonwealth Day Service on March 9 alongside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. This event was Harry and Meghan's final engagement as senior members of the royal family. The couples were seated considerably apart from each other during the event, which was held at London's famous Westminster Abbey.
What's more? The 'Fab Four' did not enter or walk together at any given time, thereby adding to speculation that the Sussexes' decision to step back from the royal family as only worsened the rift between Harry and William, Women's Health reports.
Magazine Marie Claire spoke to body language expert Patti Wood following the event.
Wood, who is famous as the author of 'Snap: Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language, and Charisma', gave her two cents about how the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were really feeling at their last royal engagement with Harry and Meghan.
"He's doing a comfort palm, that palm down on his leg, which is comforting and suppressing his emotional state or he's trying to suppress how he's feeling," Wood said about Prince William's posture during the ceremony. "The fist on top of that is an indication that he is suppressing slight amount of anger and if you go all the way up to the mouth, he's doing a lip compression, which also says, 'I'm suppressing my true emotional state.' The furrowed brow that would say, it's anger as well."
However, Kate felt different from her partner, Wood said. "There's a slight pursing of the lips and slight sadness in the eye that we see. The pursing of the lips is more like, 'This doesn't taste good to me,' and then the sadness in the eye is 'This is sad,'" she explained.
When it came to Prince Harry, Wood simply thought he looked really tired. "It looks like he hasn't slept," she commented. "That's what it looks like when a man has come back to barracks or back from the line of battle and that they're just sort of in that dizzy place," she added.
According to the body language expert, William's feelings did not change even after the ceremony was over. "He's got a slight lip suppression, very slight, titled at one side, he has conflicted feelings on trying to hide how he's feeling, but the glare is an angry glare," Wood continued.