Meghan Markle‘s latest podcast episode reunited her with an activist she met during her days as a working royal in the U.K.

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, welcomed Reshma Saujani, the founder of nonprofits Girls Who Code and Moms First, to the April 15 episode of her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder from Lemonada Media. At the start of the show, the pair recapped their first meeting years ago at Kensington Palace in London during the growth of Girls Who Code.

“Welcome, I’m so happy you’re here. It’s been a while,” Meghan said to her guest.

“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 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. She and Prince Harry became parents when their son, Prince Archie, now 5, was born in May 2019, and the family expanded when their daughter, Princess Lilibet, 3, arrived in June 2021. 

Saujanir, 49, said she crossed paths with the Duchess of Sussex, who she praised as an “amazing human,” when her team was bringing Girls Who Code to England.

“We were looking to expand, and you generously met with me,” the founder recapped.

Meghan expressed her thanks for the kind words and said she was “thrilled to learn more” about the initiative.

“It was so new, and it was definitely new for me. I remember you came in, we sat in the audience room, and I just said, ‘Tell me all about it,’ ” she said.

The royal family uses the term “audiences” for formal meetings, and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex operated from Kensington Palace as working royals. Meghan took on royal duties full-time when she married Prince Harry, now 40, in May 2018, and their office was initially based at Kensington Palace with Prince William and Kate Middleton.

As Prince William and Prince Harry looked ahead to different destinies, Kensington Palace announced in March 2019 that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were officially splitting royal households from William and Kate.

“This long-planned move will ensure that permanent support arrangements for The Duke and Duchess’s work are in place as they start their family and move to their official residence at Frogmore Cottage,” a palace statement said then.

Kate Middleton, Prince William, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at the Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey in London on March 11, 2019.

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Prince Harry and Meghan stepped back from their royal roles in January 2020 in a decision that was finalized the following year.

“While all are saddened by their decision, The Duke and Duchess remain much loved members of the family,” Buckingham Palace said then.

As the couple raise their children in Meghan’s home state of California, this week’s exclusive PEOPLE cover story explores Prince Harry’s core belief that the stripping of his security when they stepped back in 2020 was a calculated attempt to stop him and Meghan from leaving their royal roles.