God Save the Duchess?
In the eighth episode of her
Archetypes
podcast , Meghan Markle recalled the steps she took to become a British citizen, at the request of the royal family.
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When she got engaged to Prince Harry, Buckingham Palace announced that Meghan Markle would become a citizen of the United Kingdom.
For this, the American actress had to pass a test for the least demanding, consisting of 24 questions on the history, culture and institutions of the United Kingdom.
"This exam is so difficult," she said in her podcast.
"I was studying to pass it and I remember I kept saying, 'But it's not possible.'
And I would ask my husband, "Did you know this? Did you know that?"
And he would simply answer me: “I had no idea.” “I think they made it even more complicated for you, this test,” joked actress Pamela Adlon, guest of the new episode of '
Archetypes
.
“They thought they were going to set the bar really high this time around.”
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Despite starting the naturalization process, the Duchess of Sussex was ultimately never granted British citizenship, as claimed by the
Daily Mail
in January 2021. Under strict UK Home Office rules, King Charles III's daughter-in-law should have limited the number of days she spent outside the UK to less than 270, in the three years after arriving on British soil.
The main interested party having moved to the United Kingdom in November 2017, she should have lived there at least until the fall of 2020. What she did not do.
With Harry, Meghan Markle indeed decided, at the beginning of the year 2020, to leave the royal family and to settle on the other side of the Atlantic, first in Vancouver then in California, thousands miles from Buckingham Palace.
His friendship with Sophie Trudeau
For this new episode of
Archetypes
called “Good Wife / Bad Wife, Good Mom / Bad Mom” (“Good / Bad wife, Good / Bad mother”), Meghan Markle also received the American actress Sam Jay as well as Sophie Trudeau, the first lady of Canada.
Together, they spoke with broken sticks of the fact of sharing the life of famous men: “It was not our day of wives and mothers with perfect buns, pearls and wise smiles”, had fun to underline the wife of prince Harry, as noted by
Newsweek
.
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The two "women of" would have become friends seven years ago;
Meghan Markle was then filming in the series
Suits
in Toronto.
Since then, despite the distance and the years that have passed, they have never stopped communicating.
We even learn that Sophie Trudeau sent the Duchess of Sussex meditation advice and encouragement when she was pregnant.
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The surprise appearance of his mother Doria
Launched in August, the
Archetypes
podcast consists of a series of 12 episodes in which Meghan Markle discusses in an intimate tone with her guests, around clichés about women.
This eighth episode, unveiled this Tuesday, November 1, was also marked by the surprise interruption of his mother, Doria Ragland.
"Hi Mom !"
exclaimed Meghan Markle as she picked up a FaceTime call, as reported by the
Daily Mail
.
“Hey, how is my daughter?” retorted her interlocutor.
"I'm fine.
I hold on.
I'm recording right now.
You want to see ?
We're just doing a podcast.
Can I call you back?"
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Far from being destabilized, Meghan Markle did not hesitate to make her mother a guest in her own right.
Doria Ragland thus discussed with her daughter her childhood, delivering original anecdotes.
A sequence that has not gone unnoticed as the 66-year-old American is discreet.
Based in Los Angeles, not far from the villa owned by Harry and Meghan in Montecito, the social worker and yoga teacher is described as very close to the Sussexes.