People are freaking out that Meghan Markle closed her own damn door

Anarchy!
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Shannon Connellan
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People are freaking out that Meghan Markle closed her own damn door
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Meghan Markle just blew people's damn minds.

In a moment of pure, earth-shattering, uninhibited mayhem, the Duchess of Sussex just closed her own car door. Like the rest of us.

Someone fetch my smelling salts.

Anarchy reigned on Tuesday, as the Duchess attended her first solo engagement as a royal, appearing at the Oceania exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Once arrived, rather than waiting for the standard royal treatment, the Duchess chose to close her own car door, a sheer act of wonderment only mere mortals like ourselves would even dare to comprehend undertaking.

People on Twitter couldn't believe it. They simply could not.

Others tried to explain the pandemonium.

As Harper's Bazaar pointed out, it's not even the first time the Duchess has closed her own door as a royal. When she arrived to Kensington Palace last week to launch her cookbook featuring recipes from the women of the Hubb Community Kitchen who rallied together to feed people affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster, it happened.

So, although it's a rarity, turn out some royals close their own doors like the rest of us peasants.

Take pride!

Topics Celebrities

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Shannon Connellan
UK Editor

Shannon Connellan is Mashable's UK Editor based in London, formerly Mashable's Australia Editor, but emotionally, she lives in the Creel House. A Tomatometer-approved critic, Shannon writes about entertainment, tech, social good, science, culture, and Australian horror.

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