Meghan Markle made a candid admission about Kensington Palace and Prince Archie in her new podcast.
The Duchess of Sussex reconnected with a nonprofit founder she first met during her time as a working royal in the UK.
Meghan welcomed Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First, to the April 15 episode of her podcast “Confessions of a Female Founder” from Lemonada Media.
The pair reminisced about their initial meeting at Kensington Palace in 2018, when the Duchess was pregnant with her son Archie.
Meghan Markle makes candid admission about Kensington Palace and Prince Archie
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“Welcome, I’m so happy you’re here. It’s been a while,” Meghan said to her guest at the start of the show.
“It’s been a long time since I saw you. Different circumstances! Long time,” Saujani replied.
“Yes. Life was diff— well, I mean, we had met in 2018, I guess?” said Meghan, and Saujani recalled that the Duchess of Sussex was “very pregnant” then.
“Oh my gosh, yes. It would have been 2018, pregnant with Archie at Kensington Palace,” Meghan remembered.
The Duchess, now 43, was expecting Prince Archie, who was born in May 2019 and is now five years old.
Meghan recounted their formal meeting in the Palace’s audience room, a term the Royal Family uses for formal meetings.
“I remember you came in, we sat in the audience room, and I just said, ‘Tell me all about it,'” she said.
Saujani, 49, explained that she met the Duchess when her team was bringing Girls Who Code to England.
“We were looking to expand, and you generously met with me,” the founder said, praising Meghan as an “amazing human”.
Meghan expressed gratitude for the kind words and shared that she was “thrilled to learn more” about the initiative at the time.
“It was so new, and it was definitely new for me,” the Duchess recalled of her introduction to Girls Who Code.
The nonprofit organisation focuses on closing the gender gap in technology and computer science by empowering young women with coding skills.
Their reunion on the podcast highlighted the continued growth of Saujani’s work since that first meeting at Kensington Palace.
During the podcast, listeners were reminded of Meghan’s significant transition since that 2018 meeting.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex initially operated from Kensington Palace as working royals after their May 2018 wedding.
In March 2019, Kensington Palace announced the Sussexes were officially splitting royal households from Prince William and Princess Kate.