Meghan Markle’s return to the European stage at Paris Fashion Week on Saturday night was nothing less than a statement of intent.

This was her first time in Europe since she attended the Düsseldorf Invictus Games in 2023. Her team insisted that she was there simply to support Balenciaga’s new creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli, but the symbolism was impossible to miss.

In the mirrored hall of Balenciaga, Meghan was once again among the European elite. Her solo trip may well have been planned to support a friend, but it also marked something larger, a controlled return to the continent she once seemed ready to abandon. After years of distance from the old world, she appears to be easing herself back into its orbit.

It would be naive not to link her reappearance in Paris with her husba

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