Meghan Markle is opening up about the reaction to her and Prince Harry‘s “fairy tale” wedding.
While speaking with Mindy Kaling on the latest installment of her Archetypes podcast, the 41-year-old Duchess of Sussex criticized the way people discussed her marriage to Harry in 2018. Click inside to read more… Meghan explained, “Just my own experience of when I started dating my husband, we became engaged [and] everyone was just like, ‘Oh my God, you’re so lucky he chose you.’” She then played a news piece that said, “The happy couple has enchanted the world with their real-life fairy tale…” and then noted: “And at a certain point, after hearing it a million times over, you’re like, ‘Well I chose him, too?’” “But thankfully 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,’” she added. “But it is gendered and it’s archetyped and it’s stereotyped that you’re so lucky.
And it just feeds into this idea that you’re waiting for someone to tell you that you’re good enough, as opposed to knowing that you’re good enough on your own.” In the beginning of the episode, Meghan also discussed some of the messaging about marriage that kids experience at an early age. “When I was 14, I planned my wedding, not my actual wedding.
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