The royal couple has faced an avalanche of negative publicity over the past few months and Meghan Markle is using her and Prince Harry's South Africa tour as a chance to shift opinion.
New York Post's Page Six reports that the tour has been "tactically planned," with help from her friends such as Keleigh Thomas Morgan and at Sunshine Sachs Consultants, an LA agency renowned for celebrity crisis management.
In an attempt to repair her public image during the tour, the Duchess of Sussex has been photographed sitting on the floor amongst other mothers and embracing poverty-stricken kids.
She has also been rewearing her designer outfits and has removed her $222,000 engagement ring.
On Markle's first royal of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga last year, she wore expensive clothing items by Stella McCartney and Oscar de la Renta.