Meghan Markle is opening up about the reaction to her and Prince Harry‘s “fairy tale” wedding.
While speaking with Mindy Kaling on the latest installment of her Archetypes podcast, the 41-year-old Duchess of Sussex criticized the way people discussed her marriage to Harry in 2018.
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Meghan explained, “Just my own experience of when I started dating my husband, we became engaged [and] everyone was just like, ‘Oh my God, you’re so lucky he chose you.’”
She then played a news piece that said, “The happy couple has enchanted the world with their real-life fairy tale…” and then noted: “And at a certain point, after hearing it a million times over, you’re like, ‘Well I chose him, too?’”
“But thankfully I have a partner who was countering that narrative for me and going ‘They’ve got it all wrong. I’m the lucky one because you chose me,’” she added. “But it is gendered and it’s archetyped and it’s stereotyped that you’re so lucky. And it just feeds into this idea that you’re waiting for someone to tell you that you’re good enough, as opposed to knowing that you’re good enough on your own.”
In the beginning of the episode, Meghan also discussed some of the messaging about marriage that kids experience at an early age.
“When I was 14, I planned my wedding, not my actual wedding. That would have been a bit harder to imagine… this wedding was an assignment for my religion class in Catholic school,” she recalled. “I remember every little thing about it, I wanted it to be at the Bel-Air Hotel and there was a swan lake and I wanted the cake to be from Hansen’s Bakery and the dress… Oh my goodness, the dress was strapless and poofy, and I’d seen it in a bridal magazine.
She continued, “And I bought it, not the dress, I bought the bridal magazine because I took this project seriously, I wanted to get an A, and I did… maybe I got an A-minus. But my grade on the project is actually neither here nor there because what strikes me now from my 40-something vantage point is the fact that this project was even graded at all, the fact that this project even existed. At no point, could you say ‘Nope, my dream for the future is to be single.’”
“The message, even at my feminist all-girls school, was as traditional as it gets. First comes love, then comes marriage,” Meghan added.
During another recent episode of her podcast, Meghan shared that she was not treated as a “Black woman” until she began dating Harry.
Source: Showbiz PH Insider
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