A good year and a half after signing a million-dollar contract with the streaming platform Spotify, Duchess Meghan (41) published her first podcast.
In "Archetypes" the wife of Queen's grandson Prince Harry (37) talks to tennis player friend Serena Williams (40) about stereotypes and prejudices that inhibit women and keep them small.
"Over the course of the next dozen episodes, we'll tear apart the labels that women have been pigeonholed for generations - labels like diva, crazy, the B-word or slut," Meghan said in the episode released Tuesday.
“Some of these words – these labels – are hard, they are rough.
And I want to get to the bottom of them, where they're from, why they've stayed there for so long, and importantly, how can we get past them.” “B-word” means “bitch,” an offensive term for Women.
Narrowly escaped the fire
Meghan and Harry's production company Archewell Audio had already signed a deal with Spotify at the end of 2020.
Apart from a special episode around Christmas 2020, however, no episode of the California-based couple has appeared so far.
In the first 57-minute episode, Meghan also told private things.
Archie, now three, narrowly escaped a fire in his bedroom during the couple's visit to South Africa as a baby, the former actress said.
While Meghan and Harry were on an official appointment, Archie's nanny at the time briefly left the room of the four-and-a-half-month-old child in the accommodation.
During this time, the heater caught fire.
There was no smoke detector.
However, someone smelled the smoke and put out the fire.
"He should sleep there," Meghan said.
The couple have lived in California with their children Archie and Lilibet (1) for years and have given up their royal duties.
The relationship with Harry's family is considered to be heavily burdened.