1. Use Your Left Hand to Hold Your Purse

Reason: Using your right hand facilitates a more comfortable handshake.
Except: If you are left-handed, the opposite applies.
Myka Meier of Beaumont Etiquette observed that Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle nearly always use their left hands to grasp their purses. This guideline isn’t inflexible; it’s only that it makes sense in practice.
Using your left hand, hold your purse. Credit: ©Karwai Tang/Getty Images
Royal women can wave and shake hands with their right hand while holding their handbag on their left. Of course, this applies in reverse to the occasional left-handed member of the royal family.