Meghan Markle Says She Was Made To Feel That Having Ambition Is “Terrible” When She Was Dating Prince Harry
Be it when it comes to career or child-rearing, society tends to have very different expectations of men and women. Women are usually expected to prioritise marrying and having a family over supporting their ambitions and dreams. And I’ve somehow noticed that the more successful the husband is, the more the wife is expected to support his goals over her own. Meghan Markle opened up about feeling like having ambition is a bad thing when she was dating her husband, Prince Harry.
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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, spoke about being made to feel as though having ambition as a woman is a bad thing. In a podcast titled The Misconception of Ambition with Serena Williams, Meghan spoke about having ambition as a woman. She said that she never felt any negative connotation to ambition. However, this lasted until she started dating Prince Harry. She said that she was made to feel as though, “ambition is a terrible, terrible thing. For women.”She added that after feeling the negativity surrounding it was hard to let go of it. She then talked about “the millions of girls and women who make themselves smaller, so much smaller on a regular basis.”
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Meghan also discussed how society views men and women differently once they have children. She discussed how there is a definite double standard in how men and women are treated after having children.
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2018 saw the spectacular royal wedding of Meghan and Prince Harry. A year later, they welcomed their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor. The couple welcomed their daughter Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor last year before relocating to the US in 2020. A pregnant Meghan revealed to Oprah Winfrey in a 2021 interview that the royal family had reservations about the colour of her son Archie’s skin. While she was carrying him, she had also admitted that she was considering suicide. Here are some more factoids from their royal wedding:
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