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Source: (L) Instagram | @meghan; (R) Website | Archwell<\/p>\n
(L) Meghan Markle cuddles Archie and Lilibet on Mother’s Day; (R) Meghan Markle seen playing with Archie and Lilibet in her Holiday Christmas card.<\/p>\n
May 23 2025, Published 11:10 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Meghan Markle feuded with members of the royal family long before her 2020 exit. Since then, the Duchess of Sussex hasn\u2019t shied away from throwing shade at her in-laws through interviews, clever social media posts, and now her podcast. In a recent episode of Confessions of a Female Founder, Markle took yet another veiled dig<\/a> at the royal family by bringing up her children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, sharing that many \u2018external things\u2019 affected both pregnancies.<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Markle sat down with Kitsch founder Cassandra Thurswell for the penultimate episode of her podcast on 20 May. The women discussed the challenges of motherhood and the difficulties of balancing it with professional responsibilities. Markle said, \u201cI will say for myself, especially when they are baby babies… the crying… before I was a mom, and I’ve always wanted to be a mom\u2026I was ‘Oh gosh, I’m going to give a speech with a baby on my hip.\u201d Taking a swipe, she added, \u201cI had a whole vision…and you fast forward… granted, I had a lot of external things happening at the time I had both pregnancies and both babies, but it was not the way I envisioned it.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n As reported by Tyla<\/a>, the mention of going through \u2018external things\u2019 was a subtle critique of the royal family and their treatment of her. Markle was alluding, yet again, to how it led to her and Prince Harry\u2019s decision to step back from their royal duties and pursue a new life in the US. Her guest, Thurswell, also opened up about the challenges of balancing motherhood and business. She said, \u201cI had some really intense postpartum anxiety, my husband really had to step in, and this was when we were really growing quickly, and it was such a crippling growth period for me.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n During her conversation with Thurswell, Markle also opened up about how she likes to \u2018show up for people.\u2019 As per the Daily Mail,<\/a> she explained, \u201cBecause that’s been the undercurrent of how I like to show up for people, to have that still be ingrained in how I show up through the business, where the hero product really starts as a fruit spread.\u201d She also praised female entrepreneurs who came from humble beginnings and hadn\u2019t attended elite MBA or business schools. <\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Duchess of Sussex has often expressed her love for motherhood on her podcast. However, this isn\u2019t the first time she\u2019s seemingly used her children to subtly throw shade at the royals. On the second episode of her podcast, Markle revealed what her \u2018favorite title’ <\/a>was, which wasn\u2019t a royal one. As reported by The Mirror,<\/a> she told her guest, Reshma Sujani, \u201cNow you have the title of mom. Just like me. Favorite title. Love it. Oh my gosh. I love being a mom so much. It\u2019s my favorite thing.\u201d The subtle dig came after public backlash over her still using her \u2018Her Royal Highness\u2019 (HRH) title despite having stepped down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: (L) Instagram | @meghan; (R) Website | Archwell (L) Meghan Markle cuddles Archie and Lilibet on Mother’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1501,5105,7710,519,7802,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-125571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-latest-news","9":"tag-royal","10":"tag-royal-families","11":"tag-royal-family","12":"tag-royal-rebels","13":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114557815711526053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}