Meghan Markle, in new diamond necklace, reveals her safe space is a bookshop
When Meghan Markle appeared twice at a new bookstore She also debuted a new piece of jewelry over the weekend. Photographers captured Meghan wearing an 18k yellow gold Logan Hollowell Fortuna tennis necklace increased value $29,000 during her visit to Godmothers, founded by friends of the duchess and located in Summerland, California, a short drive from the Montecito home she shares. Prince Harry.
The store celebrated its opening with two days of festivities, and the duchess wore the necklace on both days, pairing it with a black Club Monaco jumpsuit on Saturday and a white Ralph Lauren tank top and trousers on Friday. On Saturday, Meghan addressed the gathered crowd, and according to Town & Countryside, She mentioned the sense of safety she found at a West Village bookstore during a 2019 trip to New York City for a baby shower.
“For me, sneaking out to New York five years ago was a really big deal,” she said of the trip, which took place during her first year working as a royal. “I was still very uncomfortable going out into the world… The security of what I craved, I knew I could find in a bookstore.”
Godmothers was founded by author and entrepreneur Victoria Jackson and literary agents Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, representative Oprah Winfrey, Glennon Doyle, And Brené BrownIn a post on the store’s Instagram account, Walsh said she wanted “local authors to know this is their bookstore.” The store’s local author showcase features Meghan’s 2021 children’s book The couch and Harry’s 2023 memoir Preventive next to Gwyneth Paltrowcookbook of Everything is easy.
Walsh has been a resident of Montecito, a small community popular with celebrities, since 2020. While Paltrow wasn’t at the store’s opening party for friends and family on Friday night, a long list of locals joined Meghan and Harry, including Jane Lynch, Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, Ellen DeGeneres, And Portia de Rossi.
Town & Countryside added that Harry helped inspire the name for the space at a book launch party for his memoir in 2023. While thanking Winfrey, Jackson, and Rudolph Walsh for their support during the writing of the book, he called them his “fairy godmothers.” As plans for the bookstore took shape, Winfrey apparently told the store’s owner, “There’s really only one thing you can name it: Fairy Godmother.”
