Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had very different reactions after witnessing Canadian singer Michael Bublé change the lyrics of the song My Way during a performance.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were in Whistler, British Columbia last week for an event to mark one year until the Invictus Games 2025, and they were joined by the crooner for a glitzy dinner and concert.
During his rendition of the Frank Sinatra song My Way Mr Bublé paid tribute to King Charles as he battles cancer, sending him “healing wishes” while also praising Harry as a “visionary”.
He opened the song with a reference to Meghan’s nickname for the Duke, as he sang “She calls him H, we call him Harry” and later made a joke which made the Duchess laugh, singing: “When passions flow, one thing we know, stay the hell out of your way.”
The singer also mentioned the couple’s move to Montecito before later including a heartfelt message to the King, something which may have affected Harry more than his wife.
Body language expert Judi James told The Mirror that at this point Harry seemed to become “dulled” while Meghan continued to enjoy the playful performance.
She said: “Was Harry suffering from cognitive confusion over Buble’s lyrics which were a cross between deeply sycophantic and mildly sarcastic? His body language responses appear dulled here, sitting very still with his shoulders angled, unlike Meghan who is fully immersed in the comedy of the song.
“Sadly we can only see the back of Harry’s head but the almost total lack of movement throughout the song suggests he must have been grinning hard to look anything other than wary or cool here.
“Sadly we can only see the back of Harry’s head but the almost total lack of movement throughout the song suggests he must have been grinning hard to look anything other than wary or cool here.
“It must have been a difficult call for Harry, given that one minute Bublé is singing ‘I think we know to stay the hell out of your way’, then there’s the super-flattery with words like ‘Visionary’ and ‘Sage’ but there’s also a line about ‘wishes to your dad’ that must have made any relaxed laughter of the type that Meghan indulging in tricky in terms of flipping between sad faces, flattered faces and all-out laughter.”
At this point Ms James claimed that Meghan appeared to show “no filter” and even made “maternal-looking gestures” towards her husband.
