Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have left their royal duties behind, but have now been immortalized in new artwork by an artist who previously painted Queen Elizabeth II.
These paintings depict Meghan and Harry as royal figures from the past, giving them historical titles.
Harry and Meghan’s New Portraits
Meghan’s portrait, called “Returning White Queen,” shows her as Dame Elizabeth Grey, the influential political wife of King Edward IV.
On the other hand, Harry, 39, is depicted as Charles Edward Stuart, also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender.
However, not everyone was impressed. Someone commented on the recent “red” painting of the king, saying, “Worse than Charles portrait and that’s saying something.” Another opined that they looked like they were painted by a child.
Some laughed at the sight of the paintings, with one person saying, “Those pics have made my day, on the floor laughing with the tears rolling down my back.”
Artist Dan Llywelyn Hall explained the decisions behind the portraits, saying, “In Harry’s case, I have entered the story before he met Meghan, the young party-goer with his future very much in the balance, a bit like the Bonnie Prince I have likened him to. I thought putting Meghan in the role of the White Queen, who was a Queen Consort and possibly the most influential ‘outsider’ in Royal history, might have a fine irony to it and not necessarily beyond the realms of reality.”
These paintings bring the number of portraits by Dan, who painted Queen Elizabeth II at a sitting at Windsor Castle when she was just 32 years old, to a total of ten.