Jill Biden wore a dress that may have been inspired by Meghan Markle's wedding veil for her first evening at the White House.
Biden paired a floral-embroidered dress with an ivory Gabriela Hearst coat and matching gloves for her appearance at the Inauguration concert on Wednesday. The dress was adorned with the federal flowers of every state and territory in the country, and is thought to have been chosen to symbolize unity across the US.
It's possible that the first lady took inspiration from the Duchess of Sussex, who used her wedding veil to send a message of unity between the monarchy and the Commonwealth in 2018.
Markle's veil was embroidered with the national flowers of each of the 53 Commonwealth countries.
The look symbolized the duchess' former role within the royal family. She became a representative for the Queen — who is head of the Commonwealth — when she married the Duke of Sussex.
"We understand how important this is for us, and the role that we play and the work that we're gonna continue to do within the Commonwealth countries," the duchess said of the veil in a documentary released after the wedding.
The Bidens have a close friendship with Prince Harry While it's unknown whether Biden has ever met Markle, her friendship with the duchess' husband has been widely documented over the years.
She was first photographed meeting Prince Harry back in 2012, during a reception for wounded soldiers at the British Embassy in Washington, DC.
In the years that followed, the pair have made several public appearances together, most typically at the prince's Invictus Games. Both Jill and Joe Biden are longtime supporters of the sporting tournament for injured or wounded service personnel, which Harry founded in 2014.
The then-vice president later joked that he was "worried" about how much time Harry and Jill were spending together.
"I read in the Guardian, or one of them, and it says – I'm paraphrasing – everywhere Prince Harry went, he had this blonde woman on his arm. The vice-president's wife! I'm a little worried here, you know what I mean?" he told The Guardian.
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Jill Biden walked Joe Biden out of the Oval Office on Friday to give him a goodbye kiss before the president headed to Walter Reed hospital to visit wounded soldiers.
The first couple had to pull down their face masks to kiss.
It marks Biden's first official trip out of the White House since becoming president and his first ride on Marine One as commander in chief.
The Bidens have a long history with the National Military Medical Center, which treats thousands of service members, military veterans and their families.
As vice president, Biden and Jill visited troops often, including on Christmas Day. Additionally, doctors at the military hospital treated Biden's son Beau when he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Beau died in 2015.
'I've been at Walter Reed a lot. I spent almost six months there myself as a patient. And in addition to that, as Vice President, every single Christmas, we spent all of Christmas Day at Walter Reed. These kids are amazing,' he told reporters on the South Lawn before he left. 'They're real heroes.'
Dr. Jill Biden's teamed up with a couple furry celebs for a very fitting Super Bowl Sunday commercial ... to air during Puppy Bowl XVII.
The First Lady and the First Dogs -- Champ and Major -- are making a special appearance to promote the continued use of face masks during the pandemic.
The German shepherds won't be live at Puppy Bowl ... Jill and co. recorded their bit at the White House. They looked super cozy in front of a fire as Jill talked about pets being a constant source of joy and comfort ... and Zoom crashers.
Part of the Puppy Bowl's mission is to also spread awareness about rescue animals, and as you may know ... Major is a rescue dog, believed to be the first to live at The White House.
Both he and Champ actually got sworn in before Joe ... part of a very special "inDOGuration" welcoming the pups to their new home.
First lady Jill Biden played an April Fools' prank on members of the media on a flight back to Washington from California, dressing up as a flight attendant who passed out ice cream bars.
Biden, wearing a short black wig and a "Jasmine" name tag, went unnoticed during meal service.
"April Fools,” she said when she returned without the wig, according to a pool report.
First lady Jill Biden pranks media, staff with wig on April Fools' Day The report says members of the media were fooled — but so were members of the first lady's staff.
Biden, who met with farm workers and visited a vaccination site in California during this week's trip, enjoys pranks. In her memoir, she recounted that when her husband was vice president, she hid in an overhead bin on Air Force Two and surprised someone looking to stow luggage, according to The Associated Press.
Others in past administrations have played April Fools' Day jokes.