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Body language expert analyses Hugh Jackman's last public outings with his wife

<p>A body language expert has analysed the last public outings of Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness before they <a href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/hugh-jackman-devastated-after-marriage-split" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced their split</a> after 27 years of marriage. </p> <p>The couple were spotted at both the Met Gala in New York and Wimbledon in the UK earlier this year, seemingly looking like a perfect loved-up couple. </p> <p>However, Aussie body language expert Louise Mahler said there could be more than meets the eye at their public outings. </p> <p>“These are two people so well rehearsed at being with each other. They lean in together, they move in unison,” Mahler told <a href="https://7news.com.au/entertainment" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link-type="article-inline"><em>7Life</em>.</a></p> <p>Assessing footage from their joint appearance at the Met Gala in May 2023, Mahler noticed that “at one point in the video Hugh goes to walk away and she briefly pulls him back and he stops with no hesitation”.</p> <p>“There is no giveaway whatsoever... and remember, they are both actors."</p> <p>“They are working as a team and showing total harmony.”</p> <p>However, Mahler went on to assess a specific moment from the Met Gala where the couple were gazing at one another head-on.</p> <p>“I’m going to speculate that he has left her because he’s looking at her quickly,” she said.</p> <p>“He still loves her but he’s moving on."</p> <p>“And what I see from her is, ‘I get that you’re moving on, you b******, but I will allow this’,” Mahler speculated about Furness’ body language.</p> <p>Two months after their Met Gala appearance, the couple attended Wimbledon to sit side by side and watch the game. </p> <p>Mahler acknowledged that they looked “a little cranky” but said that they were concentrated on the game and likely had cameras on them “for a long time”.</p> <p>“I don’t see that they’re pulling away from each other in any way,” she said.</p> <p>“In fact, their arms are touching the full length. This is a couple who have been together for 30 years, they know each other. I would say they still love each other, but they’re deciding to go their separate ways.”</p> <p>The Hollywood couple shocked the world on Saturday when they released a statement confirming their separation after being married for 27 years.</p> <p>“We have been blessed to share almost three decades together as husband and wife in a wonderful, loving marriage,” Jackman and Furness told <em><a href="https://people.com/hugh-jackman-and-deborra-lee-jackman-separate-exclusive-7970286" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link-type="article-inline">People</a></em>.</p> <p>“Our journey now is shifting and we have decided to separate to pursue our individual growth."</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em></p>

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Three questions not to ask about art – and four to ask instead

<p>Art raises a lot of questions. That’s what it does. If an art work in a gallery or a news story has made you ask “what the …?”, it has already started to do its job.</p> <p>But for many who are not familiar with art, some of the most often asked questions of art just lead to a dead end. So, is art just a global conspiracy of Emperor’s Robe-makers? Or are there some questions that will finally yield some answers?</p> <p>A couple of years ago, I visited the Tate Modern in London. Standing near <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/carl-andre-648">a work</a>that consisted of two layers of bricks arranged in a rectangle on the floor, I overheard an irritated visitor asking his friend, “Why is that art?” Hands on hips, he was clearly annoyed by what must have seemed an assault on his intelligence. So, why is that art?</p> <p><strong>1. Why is that art?</strong></p> <p><span>Art isn’t a single type of thing, just as “movies” and “music” don’t just refer to Hollywood movies or pop songs. A movie can be a silent film, a home video, a documentary or a 3D Hollywood blockbuster. </span></p> <p><span>Music can be classical, pop, rap – the possibilities are almost endless. Art is the same.</span></p> <p>Some art belongs to <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/437124">longer traditions</a>, which are concerned with how things look, and so is easier to understand, such as a Claude Monet painting of Rouen Cathedral. Some more recent art is about other things.</p> <p>Expressionist art is about visualising internal psychological and emotional states in colours and gestures. Abstract art is about creating arrangements of colour that are deliberately not drawn from real objects in the world. Conceptual art is mostly about the idea and the art object isn’t that important. Minimalist art (of the kind that annoyed the Tate visitor) is mostly about the material itself.</p> <p>However, unlike mainstream movies and music, art often doesn’t provide much of its own context. What do I mean by this?</p> <p>Well, to understand anything, you need to know its context. If you watch any Hollywood movie, most of what you require to understand the plot line is contained within the movie, in recognisable characters, scenarios and plot devices. That’s great if you just want to eat popcorn and chill out; but also the meanings are very prescriptive and don’t allow much room for alternative interpretations.</p> <p>But think of a more “arty” movie, like <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/">Mulholland Drive</a> by David Lynch, and you’re given less context. The meaning is not so obvious. You have to do more of the interpretive work yourself with the fewer clues you can find.</p> <p>Art is similar in that you need context to understand it, but it also makes you do much more interpretive work. It doesn’t mean that you just make up your own meaning and everyone is right, regardless of how wacky their interpretation. It means that you have to think of what was happening in the world in which the work came about, and to the artist’s life, to find the clues.</p> <p>Yes, it makes you do a lot of work, in the same way a crossword or Sudoku only gives you clues that you have to work with. That’s really when it gets interesting.</p> <p><strong>2. What is it meant to be?</strong></p> <p>Just over 100 years ago, during the early years of the 20th century, the most experimental artists (those we think of as the avant-garde, the leading edge) were fascinated with the idea of creating a new type of visual language. The visual language that had dominated since the Renaissance was “representation” – that is, a painting was of something, like a landscape, or a vase of flowers, or a person. Good art was that which most realistically looked like the thing it represented.</p> <p>But after photography was invented in 1839, there seemed less point in spending hours trying to just copy what we see, especially when a camera could do it quicker and better.</p> <p>At that point, many avant-garde artists became preoccupied with depicting what couldn’t be seen: emotional and psychological states.</p> <p>In a painting like The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch is attempting to portray the horror of a panic attack through his stabbing brushstrokes, red sky and the vulnerable screaming figure. Other avant-garde artists, like Pablo Picasso or Wassily Kandinsky, also moved away from representation and towards abstraction.</p> <p>Abstract artists saw creating painting or sculpture as similar to creating music. Music doesn’t represent anything – its “forms” are all completely abstract. This was what abstract art was also trying to do, but with colour and line.</p> <p>Abstraction rose to dominate art by the middle of the 20th century and then fell by the wayside after the 1970s. But representational art didn’t just come back as though nothing had happened. Art remained more about ideas than just looking like something else.</p> <p>The sculpture that provoked the ire of my fellow visitor to the Tate Modern, <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/andre-equivalent-viii-t01534">Carl Andre’s Equivalent VIII, 1966</a>, is 120 bricks arranged in a rectangle on the floor. It’s not meant to be something else. It’s about the raw materiality of the bricks themselves. That’s what Andre was proposing by presenting those bricks in the context of a gallery.</p> <p><strong>3. A four-year-old could do that, couldn't they?</strong></p> <p><span>Picasso is often quoted as having said, “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” He’s saying that the conventions of painting that dominated art since the time of the Renaissance are, in a way, quite an easy tried and tested formula – think here of the </span><a href="http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/mona-lisa-%E2%80%93-portrait-lisa-gherardini-wife-francesco-del-giocondo">Mona Lisa</a><span>, painted between 1503-06.</span></p> <p>Using perspective, shading and other Renaissance rules and techniques, most artists are going to end up with similar results.</p> <p>400 years after the Renaissance, those rules and techniques got a bit stale and, about a century ago, avant-garde artists grew bored of just copying the world. But if you throw out those old tried and tested Renaissance rules, what do you replace them with?</p> <p>Picasso went digging in a variety of other sources, such as tribal marks from Africa (which often appear in his work). Other artists, such as Jean Dubuffet, searched for alternative techniques in images made by the mentally ill. And Paul Klee was fascinated with the rawness of children’s drawings. If a modern masterpiece looks like it was drawn by a four-year-old, that’s probably what the artist was aiming to do.</p> <p>Sure, there’s a particular kind of skill in drawing a dog that looks exactly like the furry thing that barks; but then, what other ways are there of depicting a dog, new and interesting ways that haven’t been done before? Now there’s a challenge, and one that takes a very different kind of creative imagination than the manual skill of drawing.</p> <p>Russian artist Oleg Kulik’s take on this in 1997 was to spend <a href="http://www.deitch.com/projects/sub.php?projId=79">two weeks in a New York gallery</a>, stripped naked, living in a dog house and being led around on a leash, barking and occasionally biting people.</p> <p>Okay, that seems a bit extreme, but it captures much more of what a dog is than a flat and still arrangement of graphite on a piece of paper.</p> <p><strong>Four (better) ways of looking at art</strong></p> <p>So, what are better questions to ask when confronted with a work of art that seems to make no sense? A few years ago, the Australian art academic Terry Smith suggested what he called “<a href="http://www.terryesmith.net/web/?p=18">Four Ways of Looking at Art</a>”. Smith’s four simple questions ask of art the “what”, “how”, “when” and “why”:</p> <blockquote> <ol> <li>What can I see just by looking at this art work?</li> <li>How was this art work actually made?</li> <li>When was it made, and what was happening in art and broader history at that time?</li> <li>Why did the artist create this work and what is its meaning to them, and to us now?</li> </ol> </blockquote> <p>Each of these questions will reveal something more of the context, which will provide much of the meaning of the art work.</p> <p>So, next time you’re confronted by a neat arrangement of bricks on the gallery floor, a messed-up bed in a gallery, a painting that looks like it was done by a four-year-old, start by asking these four questions. You’ll prise open a can full of even more questions, and the meaning might well begin to unfurl from the Emperor’s Robes.</p> <p><em>Image credits: Getty Images</em></p> <p><em>This article originally appeared in <a rel="noopener" href="https://theconversation.com/three-questions-not-to-ask-about-art-and-four-to-ask-instead-29830" target="_blank">The Conversation</a>.</em></p>

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Body language experts analyse the Queen’s relationship with her grandchildren

<p>She might be the Queen to the world, but to her <strong><u><a href="http://www.oversixty.com.au/news/news/2017/04/prince-williams-adorable-nickname-for-the-queen/">grandchildren she’s simply “gan-gan” or “granny”.</a></u></strong></p> <p>With eight grandchildren (from her four children), we wonder what the Queen is like as a grandmother. <strong><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXi1vjJpenQ">Prince William has previously said</a></u></strong>: "She works very hard and she sees her service as important but behind closed doors, she worries and minds an awful lot about the rest of the family. She makes sure everyone is happy and finding their own path in terms of success." </p> <p>And body language experts back up Prince William’s assertion, with Susan Constantine, human behavioural expert and author of <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Idiots-Guide-Reading-Language/dp/161564248X?tag=goodhousekeeping_auto-append-20&amp;ascsubtag=%5bartid|10055.a.48025%5bsrc|"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>The Complete Idiot's Guide to Reading Body Language</strong></span></a>, </em>telling <strong><u><a href="https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/a22607539/queen-elizabeth-grandchildren-body-language/">GoodHousekeeping</a></u></strong>: “It's incredible how attentive, hands-on, and engaging she is given the fact that she has a royal rulebook to follow."</p> <p><iframe width="320" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yb9MIJIjW3k?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p>Captured in the early 1990s, this video of Her Majesty with Zara Phillips, Prince William, Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie at Balmoral in Scotland shows the Queen being a typical grandma.</p> <p>"This particular instance is striking because she throws her 'royal body bubble' out the window and gets close with her grandkids," Patti Wood, body language expert and author of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Snap-Making-Impressions-Language-Charisma/dp/1577319397?tag=goodhousekeeping_auto-append-20&amp;ascsubtag=%5Bartid%7C10055.a.47552%5Bsrc%7C">SNAP: Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language, and Charisma</a></em></strong></span> tells GoodHousekeeping.</p> <p>"Normally, we see the Queen in front and a few steps ahead of everyone else but here, she steps back and lets the kids lead the way," Wood continues.</p> <p><iframe width="320" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MI9KUymMybk?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p>When the whole family is together however, it’s clear the Queen is in charge. While taking the official royal Christmas photo in 1990, the Queen is the one that shoos the photographers away and put her grandchildren in place.</p> <p>"The mums – Duchess of York and Princess Diana – step aside and let the Queen take over the parenting role, which is interesting to see," says Constantine.</p> <p>But the Queen has always had a close relationship with her grandchildren – and now, great-grandchildren.</p> <p>Just look at her with her very first grandchild – Peter Phillips. "Her movements such as bending forward and reaching out her hand are purposeful," explains Constantine. "She wants to be connected to the newborn but the royal standards simply hold her back from being as affectionate as she'd like to be."</p> <p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-peter-young-1533072980.png?crop=1xw:0.9997671169073126xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" alt="queen elizabeth with grandchildren" title="Queen Elizabeth with Grandchildren" data-srcset="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-peter-young-1533072980.png?crop=1xw:0.9997671169073126xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" data-src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-peter-young-1533072980.png?crop=1xw:0.9997671169073126xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" /></p> <p>Or this adorably casual moment with Zara Tindall in June 1984.</p> <p>"You can sense just how relaxed the two of them are. It's evident that the Queen isn't afraid to show emotional connection despite the public setting," Constantine says.</p> <p>"The physical closeness between the two is a type of 'heart intimacy,' which is a telling sign of their close bond," adds Wood.</p> <p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-zara-young-1533072974.jpg?crop=0.9997216035634744xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" alt="queen elizabeth with grandchildren" title="Queen Elizabeth with Grandchildren" data-srcset="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-zara-young-1533072974.jpg?crop=0.9997216035634744xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" data-src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-zara-young-1533072974.jpg?crop=0.9997216035634744xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" /></p> <p>These close relationships have continued as the grandchildren have grown into adults.</p> <p>The Queen’s pursed lips when she goes in for a peck with her grandchildren actually has positive meaning behind it.</p> <p>"To feel close to someone and allow the body to completely focus on the moment, people may tightly close their eyes or lips," explains Constantine. "Here, the Queen's pursed lips indicate that she's deep in thought and feeling strong emotion."</p> <p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-harry-kiss-1533072977.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" alt="queen elizabeth with grandchildren" title="Queen Elizabeth with Grandchildren" data-srcset="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-harry-kiss-1533072977.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" data-src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-harry-kiss-1533072977.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" /></p> <p> </p> <p>And even though the Princess Beatrice of York isn’t a working royal, it’s clear that the Queen still loves her granddaughter, as evidenced by both their wide smiles.</p> <p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-beatrice-smiling-1533072976.png?crop=0.99975xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" alt="queen elizabeth with grandchildren" title="Queen Elizabeth with Grandchildren" data-srcset="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-beatrice-smiling-1533072976.png?crop=0.99975xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" data-src="https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/queen-beatrice-smiling-1533072976.png?crop=0.99975xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=480:*" /></p> <p>"Beatrice, in particular, has all teeth on deck," Constantine tells us. " Even while putting on her gloves, the Queen is looking directly at her granddaughter and completely engaging in the moment."</p> <p>Ultimately, although the Queen may have an unconventional relationship with her grandchildren, she dearly loves them.  </p> <p>"Their relationship, while different than the idealized concept, may be peculiar to us but it's <em>their</em> normal," explains Wood. "Regardless, there's a genuine joy in her face when she's with her grandchildren and that's all that matters."</p>

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Body language experts analyse Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s royal wedding

<p>Boy, were we in for a treat this year, as not only was there one royal wedding to celebrate, but two. While everyone made sure to tune in to watch Prince Harry marry the now Duchess of Sussex in May, it was a pleasant surprise when the Queen’s granddaughter Princess Eugenie announced her wedding for the month of October.</p> <p>Marrying Jack Brooksbank in the iconic St. George’s chapel, Princess Eugenie looked radiant and positively glowing as she stood in front of family and friends, ready to say her vows while the world watched on.  </p> <p>She stunned in a beautiful Peter Pilotto gown and accessorised it in true royal fashion, with a tiara. But while these were all obvious to the eye, what you may not have noticed is the loved-up couple’s body language.</p> <p>“This couple is completely enveloped in one another,” said human behavioural expert and author Susan Constantine to <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a23739200/princess-eugenie-jack-brooksbanks-royal-wedding-body-language/" target="_blank"><em>Goodhousekeeping.com</em>.</a> “From start to finish, you can tell this is a solid couple who actively listens – and respects – one another.”</p> <p>Throughout the ceremony, Jack seemed visibly nervous, as he prepared himself to wed the Princess in front of millions.</p> <p>“He’s sporting a sombre look,” body language expert Patti Wood told <em><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a23739200/princess-eugenie-jack-brooksbanks-royal-wedding-body-language/" target="_blank">GoodHousekeeping.com</a></em>.</p> <p>“He’s holding all of his tension in his mouth without letting it get the best of him.”</p> <p><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7821407/gettyimages-1051952738.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/2629d10370e44d6bad62e36b93474200" /></p> <p>But despite her fiancé’s anxiousness, Eugenie is completely enthralled with her husband-to-be. “Although her mouth is also tightly closed, she’s looking at him like he’s delicious,” says Wood. “It’s a look you’ll typically see when someone spots someone new and attractive, which makes it rare – and extra-special – on their big day.”</p> <p>During the vow and ring exchange, which is the most important part of the entire ceremony, the couple is seen rubbing each other’s fingers. “This is their way of playing and comforting one another,” Wood explains.</p> <p>While the ring exchange didn’t go smoothly for Jack, Constantine points out Eugenie’s reaction to the moment. “When he’s having a hard time with the ring, Eugenie maintains her stance and is very patient with him. She doesn’t try to step in or adjust the ring herself but lets him take charge.”</p> <p>Once the formalities were done and dusted, the newlyweds made their way outside where they shared a kiss in front of a doting crowd.</p> <p><img style="width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7821408/gettyimages-1051954184.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/1225d00a12df4dfb9aca3ca60e066017" /></p> <p>“There’s a special tenderness and sweetness in this highly publicised moment,” Wood explains. “Her light handhold, his check in before the kiss, and the mutual gaze are all good signs, especially on a couple’s wedding day.”</p> <p>As Jack holds on to Eugenie during the kiss, his hand is placed firmly on her lower back, while the Princess has a much gentler touch, and according to Wood, this shows his deep level of respect for his new wife.</p> <p>“This couple has a strong, unbreakable love for one another, which you can see through their mutual gaze and full smiles,” Wood says.</p> <p>Did you watch Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s wedding? Let us know in the comments below.</p>

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Body language expert analyses Meghan Markle and reveals her "signature gesture"

<p><span>A body language expert has revealed how Meghan has transformed into a “poised” royal, observing her behaviour as she joined Prince Harry at the Commonwealth Youth Forum in London.</span></p> <p><span>Expert and author of <em>The Body Language Bible</em>, Judi James, explained how the former Suits actress appears to have had some royal training, with her movements being “more precise” than ever.</span></p> <p><span>Examples of these precise movements include Meghan holding out her hand in a “lady-like” manner, as well as showing “preening signs” as she touched her hair.</span></p> <p><span>During Meghan’s first royal official engagement in December, Judi said Meghan chose to stay close to her fiancé, but now she is able to maintain some distance and shine by herself.</span></p> <p><span>“Meghan seems more royal with these poses,” Judi told FEMAIL.</span></p> <p><span>“When she first appeared with Harry on that walkabout in Nottingham she had a slightly touristy look about herself; she was learning on the job.</span></p> <p><span>“She saw herself as Harry’s girlfriend and was a lot more low-key. She seemed to recognise that Harry was the star. She was trailing slightly in his wake.</span></p> <p><span>“Today she's a lot less spontaneous than she was. This looks a lot more careful, she's very upright. There are signs that she might have had some royal training.”</span></p> <p><span>Judi said Meghan’s recent body language and outfit shows that she is establishing herself as an individual within the royal family.</span></p> <p><span>“She’s wanting to show herself off a bit more. Her clothing has become less easy to wear, a bit more starry and regal,” she said. </span></p> <p><span>“She’s slightly more separated from Harry. She’s got her coat around the shoulders worn as a cape, so there's not much opportunity for hand holding.”</span></p> <p><span>Judi said that Meghan still touches her hair, dubbing it as her “signature gesture”.</span></p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media"> <div style="padding: 8px;"> <div style="background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 36.851851851851855% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;"> <div style="background: url(data:image/png; base64,ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaacwaaaascamaaaapwqozaaaabgdbtueaalgpc/xhbqaaaafzukdcak7ohokaaaamuexurczmzpf399fx1+bm5mzy9amaaadisurbvdjlvzxbesmgces5/p8/t9furvcrmu73jwlzosgsiizurcjo/ad+eqjjb4hv8bft+idpqocx1wjosbfhh2xssxeiyn3uli/6mnree07uiwjev8ueowds88ly97kqytlijkktuybbruayvh5wohixmpi5we58ek028czwyuqdlkpg1bkb4nnm+veanfhqn1k4+gpt6ugqcvu2h2ovuif/gwufyy8owepdyzsa3avcqpvovvzzz2vtnn2wu8qzvjddeto90gsy9mvlqtgysy231mxry6i2ggqjrty0l8fxcxfcbbhwrsyyaaaaaelftksuqmcc); display: block; height: 44px; margin: 0 auto -44px; position: relative; top: -22px; width: 44px;"></div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bht8UnqhF39/" target="_blank">A post shared by Kensington Palace (@kensingtonroyal)</a> on Apr 18, 2018 at 9:05am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p><span>“It’s a signature gesture of hers, touching her hair a lot,” she said. “But now it’s turned into more of a grooming and preening gesture.</span></p> <p><span>“It also displays her engagement ring, which she's clearly very proud of.” </span></p> <p><span>Meghan also took more of an active role in conversations rather than just listening.</span></p> <p><span>“She’s picked up Harry’s trait, she’s using more exaggerated hand gestures,” the body language expert explained. “She’s someone who’s performing and entertaining a lot more.”</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-video"> <p dir="ltr">Delegates tell Prince Harry, who opened the forum earlier this week, and Ms. Markle what they have learnt from each other over the course of the last few days. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CHOGM2018?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CHOGM2018</a> <a href="https://t.co/1tre7CfAnM">pic.twitter.com/1tre7CfAnM</a></p> — Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) <a href="https://twitter.com/KensingtonRoyal/status/986577426628128768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2018</a></blockquote> <p><span>However, Judi noticed one trait of Meghan’s that isn’t usually seen in royal family members – “mirroring the expressions” of those she is talking to.</span></p> <p><span>“She's got a more empathetic trait. She’s mirroring the expressions of the people she’s speaking to.</span></p> <p><span>“It’s a Diana trait – it’s something that she brought to the royal family. Harry is probably the one that's carried it on the most.”</span></p>

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