Here are more photos of the Duchess of Sussex at last night’s Project Healthy Minds gala. Meghan and her husband picked up their Humanitarians of the Year Award, and they also have scheduled events today, which is World Mental Health Day. Well, there’s nothing like enjoying a new appearance from Meghan whilst hearing about a future public appearance! On Thursday, Fortune confirmed that Meghan will travel to Washington, DC to participate in the Most Powerful Women Summit.
Meghan Markle is joining a group of powerful women — including Kamala Harris, Selena Gomez and more — at Fortune’s annual Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., next week.
The Duchess of Sussex will sit down with Fortune’s Alyson Shontell on Tuesday, Oct. 14, to discuss launching her line of As ever lifestyle products, as well as “navigating entrepreneurship in the public eye and building a brand that will endure.”
The three-day event will also include talks by former Vice President Harris, on her presidential campaign and recently-released book, 107 Days; Selena Gomez, on her Rare Beauty brand; Kara Lawson, on coaching the USA Women’s Basketball Team; Brené Brown on team leadership and company culture; and more.
I’ll admit that I winced at the thought of Meghan flying into DC while the orange man is in the White House, not to mention the fact that National Guardsmen are still occupying the city for no reason. But I’m sure she’ll be fine. It’s incredibly cool that she says “yes” to these kinds of speaking events and conversations, and it’s cool that she’s part of the same summit as Kamala Harris. Maybe they’ll both be in DC at the same time! Maybe they’ll have brunch!
#FortuneMPW is excited to welcome Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Founder of As Ever, to our conference, October 13–15, in Washington, D.C.
See the agenda and full list of speakers here 👉 https://t.co/cR8KXJZCkq pic.twitter.com/iENLfWXdcH
— FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) October 9, 2025
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- Third Annual World Mental Health Day Gala hosted by Project Healthy Minds held at Spring Studios,Image: 1044459717, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Meghan,the Duchess of Sussex, Credit line: Udo Salters/Wenn/Avalon
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- Third Annual World Mental Health Day Gala hosted by Project Healthy Minds held at Spring Studios,Image: 1044459722, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Meghan,the Duchess of Sussex, Credit line: Udo Salters/Wenn/Avalon
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- Third Annual World Mental Health Day Gala hosted by Project Healthy Minds held at Spring Studios,Image: 1044459731, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Meghan,the Duchess of Sussex, Credit line: Udo Salters/Wenn/Avalon
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- New York, NY Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, attend the Project Healthy Minds 3rd Annual Gala at Spring Studios in New York City. Pictured: Meghan Markle BACKGRID USA 9 OCTOBER 2025 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend the Project Healthy Minds 3rd Annual Gala at Spring Studios in New York City. Pictured: Meghan Markle, Prince Harry BACKGRID USA 9 OCTOBER 2025 BYLINE MUST READ: BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Harry, Duke of Sussex and other celebrities attend the Project Healthy Minds 3rd Annual Gala Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: New York, New York, United States When: 09 Oct 2025 Credit: Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com
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- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Harry, Duke of Sussex and other celebrities attend the Project Healthy Minds 3rd Annual Gala Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: New York, New York, United States When: 09 Oct 2025 Credit: Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com
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- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Harry, Duke of Sussex and other celebrities attend the Project Healthy Minds 3rd Annual Gala Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: New York, New York, United States When: 09 Oct 2025 Credit: Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com
Quick, The Keens need to plan something on that same day!
Oh they’re on it. They absolutely love when sussex events are pre-announced as opposed to surprise pop-ups. Especially, for the keens, it helps them come up with ideas and fill their calendar.
Yes, they’ll for sure try, but good luck to W&K finding anything nearly this impressive!!
Tessa, this is a Tuesday. Don’t forget the school run. They just might not have time to do anything.
More Meghan 🤗🎉💞… love seeing her out and about.
Can’t wait to see how the BM et al process this !
And with Waity and Willie’s headlines being how they are sealing off public lands
– there should be no plates left in the Wales home.
Happy to see the recognition Meghan is receiving while she remains true to who she has always been
Worry thee not, @wolfmama, the Waleses will use UK taxpayer money for more plates, better plates, expensive plates.
Good for her!!! Cue the she wants to run for president because Kamala was at the same summit so that’s what we will hear.
Love this for her!
Should we expect Kate’s Autumn naytcha video to drop on the same day?
It will be nice to see Meghan at the summit. I look forward to hearing what she has to say.
I imagine that a couple of the left behinds will have an event on that very day, but I could wrong…
That chunky necklace is not costume jewelry, imo.
I know it actually takes a lot of work to make her look so natural, but I love how it *looks* like she’s not wearing much makeup, and you can almost see some of the freckles peeking through! She’s absolutely stunning.
I am so glad that they managed to find a purpose and balance serious topics while also being able to commercially make money since all the tabloids feast on their existence.
Superficial here, hi , I wonder what she will wear. It’s unfair to me that one woman could be so beautiful. Smart, kind and gifted with so many qualities and talents and here I sit lol.
I can’t wait to see her on Thursday and I am so happy that Meghan is out thriving and living her best life on her terms . She makes me proud to support her . So very proud.
I know – it is not fair!! And to add to the unfairness she has found an amazing man who isn’t jealous of her success and beauty ( in that order). If you think back to Charles being so jealous of the beautiful , inspirational Diana, and even now I think Willi is jealous of the attention Katie gets when she wears a new coat dress. They really are the definition of a great team, feeding off each others strengths and supporting each other.
The hatred in Britain is frightening – intelligent friends of mine take great pleasure in telling me what a terrible person she is because they have read about it. I take great pleasure in giving them a few facts.
Kate is currently searching for new business suits, so she can pretend to be a business barbie at the same date. Maybe a new photoshoot in front of skyscrapers. 😂😂
Meghan is attending this event as the founder of As Ever. It is so nice she is doing things like that. I know she used to do it in her Tig years. She is gonna network like hell behind the scenes I am sure.
I hope she gets to meet Kamala too.
I think they already know each other.
Wiggles will be out on that day with her hyena grimace again.
Meghan is happy, healthy, free to be her authentic self, and successful. Those stale people fumbled big time. I love this for her and her man.
Dang it. She’s leaving right before I get there ☹️ Cue the “Meghan is resentful of the soft power for fewtcha kween keen”
She really is just gorgeous, and that hairstyle is beautiful on her. She could make even more of a fortune if she dropped a beauty line based on the products she uses.
I mean, that face …
Meghan is so amazing. Can’t wait to hear her speech.
Yes, it will be fine, and she will be brilliant and shine. Nevertheless, I am afraid.