Meghan Markle has released the second episode of her new podcast series Confessions of A Female Founder, where she made reference to the ‘favourite’ title that belongs to her
Meghan Markle has revealed the title that she loves the most in a cryptic comment after her royal exit. Meghan continues to use her Duchess of Sussex title given to her on the day she married husband Prince Harry, despite both dramatically quitting their royal roles more than five years ago.
In recent months, Meghan has had a flurry of commercial output including her much-criticised Netflix lifestyle series With Love, Meghan and her new lifestyle brand As Ever. And in one of the episodes, Meghan reiterated that she should be referred to as Meghan Sussex, not Markle.
But in the second episode of the new podcast, she opens up about her life balancing being a parent as well as running a business.
And she revealed that being a mom was her “favourite title”, telling her guest Reshma Saujani: “Now you have the title of mom. Just like me. Favourite title. Love it. Oh my gosh. I love being a mom so much. It’s my favourite thing. It is the thing where you’re like ‘Oh my gosh, I just need a break. I just need a minute.
“And the second you step into the other room, you go, oh but let me scroll through pictures of them endlessly on my phone, and… my husband’s like, ‘My love, can you just give yourself a minute? Why don’t you go work out? Why don’t you go take a bath?’
“I’m like I know, but I just want to cuddle. It’s the parenting paradigm where it is so full-on and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. But I think what’s really key about what you said, and the pandemic may have been the thing that shifted this when working from home and parenting from home where they are completely converged, can feel incredibly overwhelming.”
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the episode, Meghan shared her parenting struggles of “juggling it all” while looking after a sick Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. She revealed how at the time of recording, both of her children were unwell.
She explained how one of them had had RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) – a common cause of coughs and colds – while the other had influenza A – a form of flu. And speaking of her struggle of being a working mother, she explained: “With that comes the woman who is juggling it all and doing it all from home, being confident enough, to tell the truth about what’s going on, because you can’t give grace to someone in the same way if you just have no sense of it…
“My kids, for example, right now, one has RSV, the other has influenza A. I hear a little pitter-patter of feet upstairs, home from school, you know cough syrup all night and rubbing the back, and … we still find a way to show up for both.”
Meghan’s guest Ms Saujani, is the founder of the not-for-profit Girls Who Code. During their chat, they talk about their shared experience of miscarriage and the Duchess touches on her experience of miscarriage and having to “let something go that you plan to love for a long time”.
Meghan had a miscarriage in July 2020, when her eldest child Archie was one, revealing her heartbreak in an article for The New York Times later that year. The duchess told Ms Saujani, who faced a series of miscarriages due to an autoimmune disease: “The miscarriages that you’ve experienced. I’ve spoken about the miscarriage that we experienced.
“And I think, in some parallel way, when you have to learn to detach from the thing that you have so much promise and hope for and to be able to be OK at a certain point to let something go, something go that you plan to love for a long time.”
It comes after the first episode of the series, where Meghan revealed that she suffered a huge medical scare when she developed postpartum pre-eclampsia after the birth of one of her children and had to cope with the world not knowing.
The conversation is the latest instalment from Meghan’s new eight-part podcast with Lemonada Media, which promised ‘girl talk’ and advice on how to create “billion-dollar businesses”. It follows the duchess’s much-criticised Netflix lifestyle series With Love, Meghan and her new brand As Ever, which sold out of its first batch of raspberry spread, flower sprinkles and herbal tea.