Meghan Markle says she was 'latchkey kid' and 'alone so much' in new podcast episode
ok.co.ukThe Duchess of Sussex has talked of her childhood as a 'latchkey kid' in a new Archetypes podcast episode released on Spotify.
In conversation with American actress Mindy Kaling, Meghan, who is currently on an unofficial Royal tour with Prince Harry, described how she was “alone so much as a child” and was a “latchkey kid”.The conversation arose as Meghan talked about her favourite childhood reading material, saying she romanticised the Archie comics because she wanted the “cookie cutter-looking perfect life”.The duchess said: “I was alone so much as a child, right, and also a latchkey kid, and I think I read a lot of Archie comic books ironically. “My son is not named after Archie comic books, but I loved them.
I collected them.” She added: “I think for me, especially, my parents split up when I was around two, three years old, and I always wanted this sort of cookie cutter-looking perfect life and you looked at that and there’s like a boy in a letterman jacket. “I romanticised that.
It’s all part of the things that make you have this idea of what you want your life to be like when you grew up. “I always thought I’m way more Betty than Veronica and am I gonna get the guy one day?
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