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"Please don't look me in the eye": Meghan's new official portrait

 It's a staple of gossip columns: celebrity divas (and divos, to include the men) who insist that the peons around them refrain from making eye contact. J-Lo, Neil Diamond, Nicole Kidman, Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan are among the stars who insist on no eye contact, according to a long-running thread at DataLounge , and Ellen DeGeneres was also recently accused of refusing to make eye contact with her long-suffering staff. Which brings us to the latest official photo from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.  Photographed looking away from the viewer The new photo is being compared to the Sussex engagement photo, perhaps because Meghan's head is slightly south of Harry's in both photos. I find it more similar to one of the black and white wedding photos the couple chose to share.  In both the new photo and the wedding photo, Meghan is looking somewhere else, away from the viewer.  The wedding photo has her looking out of the frame (did she find somebody better? Maybe ...