Giving high street the cold shoulder! Meghan Markle sported outfit worth £6,400 including new Bardot neckline blazer costing more than £600 to Archewell talk in New York

Meghan Markle was effortlessly elegant in a chic £6,424.46 monochrome ensemble as she attended the first in-person event for the Archewell Foundation in New York yesterday.

The Duchess of Sussex, 42, opted for an all-white outfit, Altuzarra ‘Bendix’ wide-leg trousers, now on sale for £310.93 ($358.49) and a shoulder jacket from the same brand for £. 625 ($895).

She paired it with her trusty nude £554 ($598) Aquazzura pumps, which added the perfect neutral complement to her all-ivory look.

Prince Harry’s wife also accessorized with Sarah Hendler earrings, which cost £1,547.53 ($1,900), and paid sweet tribute to her son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor by wearing his birthstone.

The £3,387 Queen Emerald Cut Cuban Choker made a stunning addition, simply but effectively elevating the Duchess’s look.

One royal fashion blogger, Meghan’s mirroralso believe she may be wearing a Cartier Love bracelet, which costs £7,050.

Pulling back her raven tresses in a relaxed updo, the Duchess showed off her healthy post-summer California glow with her dewy makeup.

Elsewhere, Prince Harry looked dapper in a navy suit for the event – which was launched to host Harry and Meghan’s charity work.

The couple were all smiles as they arrived at the venue, but appeared to get emotional once the event got underway, with both looking incredibly somber as the panel began – with parents who have ‘suffered the tragic loss of related to their child’s social media use ‘ on stage to share their stories.

They revealed at the event that they had been working behind the scenes with the parents over the past year to ‘create a community of shared experiences’, with Harry and Meghan taking to the stage later in the event to welcome all the mums and fathers who shared their stories.

“I can’t begin without thanking all the parents, the mothers and fathers who were here today for being physically here today, but also for being on this journey for the last year and creating this community of shared experience, Harry said in a video shared by The Hollywood Reporter.

“We know it’s not easy for you to be here, so thank you very much.”

Meanwhile, Meghan admitted she was left in tears by some of the stories the parents shared when they first met.

“A year ago when we met some of the families, not all of them, it was impossible not to be in tears because I’m sure so many of you have heard these stories today,” she said.

“You can hear these stories over and over and over, and it’s still going to have the same emotional impact because it’s just so devastating.”

Meghan went on to share her fears for her own children, who are growing up in an era when social media plays such a big role in everyone’s lives.

“As parents, although our kids are very young, they’re two and a half and four and a half … but social media isn’t going away,” she continued.

“I think by design there was an entry point that was supposed to be positive in creating community and something spiraled, and there’s no way to hear that and not try to help these families tell their stories don’t hear.”

In a video shared by Huffington Post reporter Carly Ledbetter, Meghan went on to describe her role as a mother as the ‘most important thing in her life…besides being a wife’ to Harry, before she opened up about her concerns regarding their children Archie and Lilibet using social media.

“Being a mother is the most important thing in my whole life … except of course being a wife for this one,” she said, when Carson asked how much of a “priority” social media safety for her is, as a mother of two young children.

“But I will say, I feel lucky that our kids are at an age, again, pretty young, so it’s not in our immediate future, but I also feel scared about how it keeps changing.

‘And it will be before us. As they say, “Being a parent, the days are long, but the years are short.” So it worries me, but I am also given a lot of hope and a lot of energy by the progress we have made in the past year.’

Another video taken inside the event, which was posted on Twitter, showed Meghan hugging several of the speakers after they walked off the stage after addressing the gathered crowd.

Yesterday’s event, in which the couple at the Today show host Carson and the US surgeon general Dr. Joined by Vivek Murthy, is their first joint appearance in New York since the infamous ‘car chase’ in which they were caught in May, after the Women of Vision Awards.

For the event, the pair seemed to take some pretty strict measures to ensure their safety – with a marked NYPD escort accompanying their fleet of SUVs to the event venue at Hudson Yards.

There are still questions about Harry and Meghan’s account of the car chase, which a statement from the couple’s spokesperson described as ‘almost catastrophic’.

The spokesperson said the couple, as well as Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland, were the victims of a ‘relentless pursuit lasting more than two hours’ by ‘highly aggressive paparazzi’.

It was suggested that they were trying not to be followed to where they were staying on the Upper East Side of the city.

However, New York police later told NBC that they did not believe the chase was “near catastrophic,” instead describing it as “a bit of a chaotic scene.”

New York Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Julian Phillips also revealed that the NYPD was ‘assisting’ the couple’s private security team.

Meanwhile, New York Mayor Eric Adams expressed empathy – describing the actions of the paparazzi as ‘reckless’ and ‘irresponsible’ – but said he would find it ‘hard to believe’ there was a two-hour high-speed chase .

Harry and Meghan seemingly took every precaution for the occasion, arriving at Hudson Yards in a fleet of blacked-out vehicles, which pulled directly into an underground garage, where they were quickly surrounded by multiple security guards.