Meghan Markle Praises Prince Harry for ‘Countering’ the ‘Gendered’ Response to Royal Engagement: ‘I Chose Him Too’

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A royal walk down memory lane. Meghan Markle looked back on her engagement to Prince Harry — and the global response it received — during the latest installment of her podcast.The Suits alum, 41, reflected on defying stereotypes during a candid conversation with Mindy Kaling.

While the producer, 43, opened up about her nontraditional route to motherhood, the duchess recalled facing the pressure of the spotlight in the early days of her romance with Harry, now 37.“When I started dating my husband and we became engaged, everyone was like, ‘Oh, my God, you’re so lucky he chose you!'” Meghan noted on the Tuesday, September 6, episode of her “Archetypes” podcast. “At a certain point, after you hear it a million times over, you’re like, ‘I chose him, too.'”The California native went on to praise her now-husband for flipping the script on the outdated and “stereotyped” reaction. “I have a partner who was countering that narrative for me and going, ‘They’ve got it all wrong.

I’m the lucky one because you chose me,'” the Bench author gushed.Meghan added that the public’s response fed “into this idea that you’re waiting for somebody to tell you that you’re good enough as opposed to knowing that you’re good enough on your own.”The royal couple — who share son Archie, 3, and daughter Lili, 15 months — tied the knot in London in May 2018.

When the pair went public with their romance two years prior, Harry spoke out in defense of the Tig blogger, who was the subject of sexist and racist vitriol online and in the British tabloids.“Prince Harry is worried about Ms.