Meghan wears Zara! Duchess ditches designer gear for £109 high street jacket in Jordan - and takes off her usual stack of bangles and diamonds
She's known for her love of luxury fashion, but the Duchess of Sussex opted for high street style on her trip to Jordan - wearing a £109 Zara jacket to visit a rehab centre in Amman.Prince Harry and his wife, 44, are currently on a two-day quasi-royal tour of Jordan at the invitation of the World Health Organisation (WHO).For this morning's visit to the National Centre for Rehabilitation of Addicts, Meghan wore a £109 grey wool blend topstitched jacket from Zara, the Spanish brand also favoured by her sister-in-law the Princess of Wales.It's the second time she's championed the brand on the trip - wearing a khaki Zara t-shirt for a game of football yesterday.She paired the coat with black suit trousers and black heels, and in keeping with the pared-back look, she left her usual stack of bangles and glittering diamonds at home.The only visible jewellery was her gold wedding band and Cartier Love bracelet. The Duchess of Sussex has adopted a low-key approach to fashion during her two-day trip to Jordan with Prince Harry - and wore a £109 jacket from ZaraEarlier today, Harry and Meghan wrote messages of support to recovering addicts at a rehabilitation centre during the second day of their quasi-royal tour of Jordan.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined a WHO team as they spoke to patients at Amman's National Centre for Rehabilitation of Addicts.Promoting mental health support is one of the themes of their visit, and the couple both wrote notes on a wall in an attempt to encourage those receiving treatment.Meghan's note written on orange paper said: 'Congratulations on your dedication to your care. Wishing you continued healing and happiness.'And Harry wrote on a yellow note: 'It's OK to not be OK. Trust each other. Congratulations on your recovery. Now share your courage and experience.'The centre, operating under Jordan's ministry of health's national centre for mental health, has a 40-bed capacity and was inaugurated in 2001.It has served as a short-term residential and outpatient treatment centre, offering medical withdrawal services, psychological support and social counselling.Earlier today, the couple visited a worldwide organisation feeding people in moments of crisis. Meghan sported a funnel-neck coat when visiting the National Centre for Rehabilitation of Addicts (NCRA) in Amman, Jordan The Montecito-based mother-of-two ditched her usual jewels for a simple gold wedding band during the visit Pictured: The Duchess of Sussex during a visit to the National Centre for Rehabilitation of Addicts in JordanThe Sussexes travelled to the World Central Kitchen's regional headquarters where it coordinates and deploys a million hot meals across Gaza daily. The organisation was founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres, a staunch supporter of the couple who appeared on the second season of Meghan's Netflix cookery show.World Central Kitchen, established in 2010, uses a network of field and community kitchens, bakeries and partners to enable almost half of Gaza's population to be fed.Harry and Meghan chatted via video call with a distribution leader at one of the organisation's six field kitchens in Gaza.Wadhah Hubaishi, the organisation's response director for the Middle East and North Africa, told the couple that ochre and rice was the meal for today.He said: 'This is one of our most delicious meals for the Gaza people. Within two hours, we will start distributing the food.''We need 20 trucks (of supplies) every day from Egypt, not enough trucks are coming in, that really affects us more than any other actor.'Mr Hubaishi said their mantra was 'food with smiles' provided by Gazans for Gazans and highlighted the need for food by telling the couple the touching story of a boy who had never seen a banana.'A three-year-old ate a banana and asked his father "can I eat the peel",' he said.The Sussexes got more of an insight when distribution manager Shadi Raed made a video call to the couple and held up his phone to show them huge pots cooking the day's meal and a neighbouring warehouse.The Sussexes have travelled to Jordan this week at the invitation of the WHO's director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu.They are learning more about humanitarian work to support health and wellbeing of Syrians and Palestinians who have sought sanctuary in Jordan over many decades.During their final day in Jordan, the Sussexes will also visit female leaders at the Jordanian Hashemite fund for human development, an organisation known as a pioneer in sustainable human development, and tour the King Hussein cancer centre.Buckingham Palace officials are understood to have been informed in advance of the couple's visit to Jordan - one of Prince William and Kate's favourite countries.Yesterday, Harry and Meghan joined girls for a football session at the Za'atari refugee camp where thousands of Syrians have sought sanctuary. Meghan was left with bragging rights after she scored a penalty, while her husband's shot was saved.Later the couple visited the Specialty Hospital in Amman. Children injured in Gaza have been treated there, and Meghan appeared emotional as she met Jaber, 17, who was shot in the legs, saying: 'I'm so glad you're getting the treatment that you need.' Philip Hall, British Ambassador to Jordan, thanked the Sussexes for travelling to the Middle East, saying: 'I would simply say thank you very much indeed for coming.'Your visit, your support, your appreciation of the efforts that the United Nations, including of course, the World Health Organisation, the government of Jordan and others, are making here is enormously appreciated. So thank you for coming.'Jordan has received wave after wave of refugees beginning with Palestinians more than 80 years ago, who now number around 2.5 million people, and Syrians who fled conflict in their country until recently ruled by President Bashar al-Assad.The latest wave of displaced people has flowed from the Israeli government's Gaza war against Hamas, launched after Hamas atrocities during the October 7 attacks.The trip comes just a week after Harry's uncle Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested in Norfolk last Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office.This followed claims Andrew shared sensitive information with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein during his time as the UK's trade envoy. He has always denied wrongdoing.
