Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, made her first public appearance in nearly two months at a special screening of the documentary Cookie Queens at AMC The Grove in Los Angeles on July 29, 2026, according to Town & Country.

The documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2026, follows four Girl Scouts as they sell cookies. Meghan and her husband, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, serve as executive producers on the project. The film was directed by Alysa Nahmias.

Meghan wore a monochrome white outfit paired with Hermès Santorini sandals for the event. After the screening, she participated in a Q&A session with the audience.

During that conversation, Meghan quoted Prince Harry offering a piece of perspective drawn from his decade as a helicopter pilot in the British Army. "Even if there's a storm happening, above the storm, the sun's always shining," Meghan recounted him telling her.

The project has a personal thread for Meghan. She was a Girl Scout herself, growing up in the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles council, with her mother, Doria Ragland, serving as her troop leader. Nahmias noted during the event that Meghan belongs to the same council as one of the film's subjects, a young woman named Nikki, and Nikki's sisters.

The screening drew a small audience of notables. Jessica Radloff, the longtime Hollywood reporter and author of the oral history The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series, attended and posed for a photo with Nahmias and Meghan at the theater.

The appearance marked Meghan's first public event since she traveled to Geneva in May 2026. The Sussexes, who stepped back from their roles as working members of the British royal family in 2020 and now live in Montecito, California, have built a production portfolio through their company, Archewell Productions, with projects spanning documentary, scripted television, and lifestyle programming.

Cookie Queens sits squarely in the couple's documentary lane — character-driven stories with a social or community angle. The Girl Scouts' cookie program, familiar to most Americans as an annual tradition of door-to-door and booth sales, serves as both the backdrop and the engine of the film's narrative about ambition, teamwork, and growing up.

For Meghan, the Girl Scout connection adds a layer of autobiography to the producing credit. She has spoken before about her Los Angeles upbringing and the values her mother instilled, and the council she belonged to as a child is the same one that appears on screen.