Markle and Queen Elizabeth II attended the official opening of the new Mersey Gateway Bridge followed by lunch at Chester Town Hall on 14 June, 2018, marking the duchess's first solo engagement without Prince Harry. While Markle stuck to her signature style in a cream Givenchy caped dress, a black clutch, and Sarah Flint pumps, it was her pearl earrings that took the spotlight. They were a gift from the queen, who presented them to her in the car earlier that morning, as revealed later in an Oprah Winfrey interview. While smaller in size than the pair worn by the queen, the look was known to be favoured by the monarch, as she told BBC that "pearls like to be living creatures."