The Duchess of Sussex didn’t speak when she met Dubbo resident Jan Duncan at Picnic in the Park in Dubbo on Wednesday afternoon.
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But the mother-to-be looked the royalist “straight in the eye” and smiled.
It will be a greeting that Ms Duncan will never forget and another memory involving a royal visit.
“I’ve seen Prince Charles in Parkes, the Queen in Dubbo, Prince Edward in Dubbo and now Prince Harry and Meghan,” she said.
Ms Duncan would not have been alone on Wednesday in declaring herself a staunch royalist after hearing a rousing speech from Prince Harry.
“I want them to stay and still be head of the Commonwealth,” Ms Duncan said.
The born-and-bred Dubbo resident was among the first to encounter the royals across a steel barrier and in the rain.
She and two friends, Jenny Hewish of Dubbo and Ruth Serhan of Newcastle, arrived at the park at 7.30am.
They sat in the “second row” behind Wagga Wagga visitors, Emily and Ruth Cutler and Mary Nicholls, who got to the park two hours earlier.
Both groups of women were on a royal high after encountering the visitors soon after 1pm.
The Wagga Wagga women all shook Meghan’s hand and congratulated her on her pregnancy.
“She said thank you and looked me in the eye,” Mrs Nicholls said. “It was wonderful.”
Emily Cutler told of Prince Harry following his wife and asking “Did you guys get soaked?’.
The Wagga Wagga women admitted to still feeling the rush of “adrenaline” after the royals departed.
Ms Duncan wasn’t shy when the duchess got close to her.
“I said Meghan and I put my hand out and she shook it,” the Dubbo resident said.
“Then I grabbed my dear friend Jen’s hand and Meghan shook it too.”
Jenny Hewish said she was “two people back” but the duchess had reached through the crowd to shake her hand.
Ms Duncan, who had tears in her eyes when Prince Harry was speaking to the crowd, described Meghan has “so perfect”.
She and her friends didn't mind getting wet at the royal occasion.
“It was beautiful,” Ms Duncan said. “They brought the rain to us.”