Meghan Markle quipped that her husband Prince Harry ‘loves bagpipes’ as the couple arrived at a gala to celebrate music mogul David Foster on Friday night.
In a video posted to Instagram on Saturday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex could be seen walking through a corridor lined with bagpipers at the 40th anniversary celebration of The David Foster Foundation in Canada.
At the start of the video the Duchess told the musicians: ‘My husband loves bagpipes!’
As they continued to walk past the pipers, Meghan added: ‘Oh my god, this is amazing!’
Harry then joked with the musicians, asking: ‘Where are mine?’ He then protested he could play both ‘pipes and drums’.
Meghan’s video then cut to a plate featuring what appeared to be an edible piano and musical notes before panning to the programme for the evening’s gala and concert.
Foster, 76, founded the organisation in 1986 to provide financial support for Canadian families with children who need life-saving organ transplants and raise awareness of organ donation in Canada and the US.
Meghan Markle joked with bagpipers as she attended an event to celebrate David Foster, the music mogul and close friend of the Sussexes
Dressed in a gown by Canadian designer Greta Constantine she quipped to the musicians: ‘My husband loves bagpipes!’
At the event on Friday night, held in Foster’s home city of Victoria, British Columbia, Meghan was pictured wearing Princess Diana‘s diamond and sapphire earrings.
She also owns the late Princess of Wales‘s butterfly earrings and matching cuff bracelet as well as a diamond tennis bracelet, a Cartier Tank Louis and Diana’s ‘divorce ring’, an emerald-cut aquamarine surrounded by diamonds gifted to her by close friend Lucia Flecha de Lima in 1996.
Meghan, 45, has previously worn Diana’s earrings at public events and chose to sweep her hair into an updo to show off the stones on Friday night.
Harry, 41, wore a black tuxedo and bow tie while his wife was dressed in a black maxi one-shouldered gown by Canadian designer Greta Constantine.
The Sussexes posed for pictures with 16-time Grammy winner Foster and his wife, actress and singer Katharine McPhee, 42.
Meghan and Harry have long been friends with the couple and were previously pictured on a double date with them.
In 2019 Foster arranged for the Duke and Duchess to stay at a close friend’s mansion on Vancouver Island, telling the Daily Mail at the time: ‘I felt honoured that I was able to help Meghan there because I’m a Canadian, and we’re a Commonwealth country – we’re the Crown’s.
‘It’s important to us, so I grew up with that kind of sentiment. I was really happy to be able to help them to find a respite just to take a little time off.’
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended the gala, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Foster’s organ donation foundation, in Canada on Friday night
The Duke and Duchess are close friends of Foster and his wife, actress and singer Katharine McPhee
Meghan wore diamond and sapphire earrings belonging to her late mother-in-law for the gala
The mansion, a secluded waterfront estate in North Saanich, British Columbia, was owned by Mr Foster’s close friend, whose identity he refused to give away.
McPhee went to school with the Duchess and told Access Hollywood in 2020 that her husband and the Duke had a ‘really, really beautiful relationship’.
‘They’re so cute. They’re like father and son.
‘We just stay in touch with them [the Sussexes]. But mostly, Meghan and I knew each other from childhood, but really Harry and my husband are friends. It’s really nice.’
