Meghan Markle spotted without engagement ring for major public event

Meghan Markle attended the premiere of her new film this week without her engagement ring, fans have noticed.

The Duchess of Sussex stepped out in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening for a special screening of Cookie Queens, a Girl Scout documentary she and Prince Harry executive produced.

Observers were quick to note that Meghan's ring was once again absent from her hand.

The striking piece, which Prince Harry gave her in 2017, was nowhere to be seen - though she continued to wear her gold wedding band.

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The ring holds considerable personal significance. Its centrepiece is a cushion-cut diamond sourced from Botswana, a country that played a meaningful role in the couple's early courtship.

Flanking it are two smaller round-cut stones taken from the personal collection of Harry's late mother, Princess Diana.

This is not the first time the Duchess has been spotted without the ring in recent months.

During a visit to Jordan earlier this year, she appeared at the National Centre for Rehabilitation of Addicts wearing only her wedding band.

Meghan has not publicly addressed her decision to leave the engagement ring off.

Despite her missing ring, the duchess offered an inspirational yet heart-warming insight into advice she had received from her husband to get through "tough days".

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Asked how she motivates herself during "tough moments," Meghan said she draws on something Harry told her "ages ago," rooted in his 10 years flying helicopters for the British Army.

"Sometimes on really hard days, we were once, he said, 'Hey, but my love, you know, even if there's a storm happening above the storm, the sun's always shining,'" Meghan told the audience.

She described this as a shift in perspective that "only comes when you think about zooming out a little."

"I think so much of it, funny enough, I was thinking about something my husband told me ages ago, because we all go through experiences and life is full of surprises," she said.

"So I think when you really zoom out and think, 'My gosh, how many things have we gone through that have felt hard?' And then you still get through them," Meghan continued.

"Or how many goals do you think you're not gonna hit? And then you hit them, and you supersede them."

Meghan’s glowing words of her husband prove that, engagement ring or not, the love is still very much there between the pair.

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