Meghan Markle hires ‘over-the-top,’ 4-car motorcade for Broadway night out: ‘Absolutely abnormal’

How galore information vehicles does it return to escort 1 duchess?

Meghan Markle beefed up her information measures for a caller nighttime retired successful nan Big Apple.

Photos exclusively obtained by Page Six show nan Duchess of Sussex, 43, being driven astir New York City connected Thursday evening pinch a grandiose four-car motorcade, including 3 SUVs and an unmarked constabulary vehicle.

We’re told Markle hired erstwhile Secret Service agents arsenic portion of her backstage information item — which followed her to meal and a Broadway show — and that nan unmarked conveyance belonged to nan New York Police Department and had 2 intel detectives wrong of it.

A paparazzi root tells Page Six that nan duchess’s information measures are “absolutely abnormal, wholly over-the-top and excessive.”

“Taylor [Swift] usually has 2 cars — her car that she’s successful and a information car pinch her team,” nan insider says, “and if she’s going somewhere, she has a abstracted car on-site pinch her squad already there, but they don’t recreation together.”

The pap root notes that different A-listers for illustration Kim Kardashian, Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Rihanna each recreation pinch 1 car unless they are pinch family, past they allot for two, but “no 1 gets constabulary escorts.”

“Meghan is retired of power and over-the-top, and it’s ridiculous if nan metropolis is paying for this,” nan root opines. “And if NYPD was not connected duty, past they shouldn’t beryllium allowed to tally lights. Somebody’s sewage to beryllium paying for it.”

However, a 2nd root tells Page Six that conscionable because astir stars don’t utilize NYPD’s services doesn’t mean they can’t — arsenic immoderate celeb’s caput of information tin inquire for protection if necessary.

“It’s thing that tin beryllium made disposable based connected nan threat appraisal and nan circumstances of wherever they’re going and what they’re doing,” nan 2nd root explains.

We’ve been told that astir of Markle’s cars were decoys and were quiet inside. Although 1 NYPD serviceman was spotted successful azygous beside her, our 2nd root speculates nan section precinct already had that peculiar bull posted wherever Markle was going to power pedestrian traffic.

Page Six has reached retired to a spokesperson for nan NYPD and Markle’s rep for remark connected nan royal information measures but did not instantly perceive back.

The four-car motorcade first followed nan erstwhile “Suits” prima to an early meal astatine Ralph Lauren’s Polo Bar, wherever she met up pinch friends. Prince Harry was not successful town, arsenic he was visiting Ukraine.

Markle, who wore a puffy-sleeved achromatic apical and houndstooth pencil skirt for nan nosy outing, past made her measurement to nan Theater District, wherever she caught nan revival of “Gypsy” astatine nan Majestic Theatre.

Although nan “With Love, Meghan” prima was ushered retired by nan venue’s information and her ain bodyguards, we’re told she was capable to stay mostly low-key and spell unnoticed by chap theatergoers.

Markle and Harry, 40, person been vocal successful nan past astir emotion unsafe successful New York City.

In May 2023, a root claimed to Page Six that nan mates were “extremely upset and shaken” following what their rep described arsenic “a adjacent catastrophic car chase” pinch paparazzi.

“This relentless pursuit, lasting complete 2 hours, resulted successful aggregate adjacent collisions involving different drivers connected nan road, pedestrians and 2 NYPD officers,” their publicist claimed astatine nan time.

“While being a nationalist fig comes pinch a level of liking from nan public, it should ne'er travel astatine nan costs of anyone’s safety.”

However, aggregate sources formed uncertainty connected Markle and Harry’s type of nan events astatine nan time, pinch a high-ranking NYPD root telling The Post that there had been “no collision reports aliases 911 calls” and that nan pursuit “definitely wasn’t 2 hours.”

One eyewitness moreover placed blasted connected nan royals’ team, telling Page Six exclusively, “They were mocking nan paps, provoking them.

“You expect that benignant of point from information for rappers aliases whatever, but pinch bully information — which this should beryllium — you expect them to beryllium akin to Secret Service. These information egged connected nan paps.”

The Sussexes’ rep slammed nan conception that nan ordeal had been drummed up for publicity.

“Respectfully, considering nan duke’s family history, 1 would person to deliberation thing of nan mates aliases anybody associated pinch them to judge this was immoderate benignant of PR stunt,” publicist Ashley Hansen said astatine nan time, referring to Harry’s mother Princess Diana’s death successful a 1997 paparazzi chase.

Since then, Harry has besides stepped up his security erstwhile visiting Manhattan.

In September 2024, nan “Spare” writer was seen arriving astatine a tattoo shop flanked by respective bodyguards and 2 NYPD cars to shoot a video pinch vocalist Jelly Roll.