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3. SHE GREW UP ON A TELEVISION SET
“My father was the lighting director and director of photography for the series Married, Two Kids,” she told Esquire. Every day after school for ten years I was on the set with kids, and it was really fun and crazy for a little girl in uniform who attended a Catholic school. My dad would often say to me, “Meg, why don’t you go help out in the catering room? Because this is a little too racy for your 11-year-old eyes.””
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Observers of royalty know that Duchess Meghan supports causes close to her heart: her official sponsorships cover the National Theatre, education, animal welfare and helping women find jobs.
But his activism goes back a long way. When she was only 11 years old, her campaign to get Proctor & Gamble to rethink the language used in its dishwashing advertising was successful. “They changed ‘Women All Over America Fighting Fatty Pots’ to ‘People All Over America’. That’s when I realized the magnitude of what I was doing,” she later told the United Nations Conference on Women. By the time I was 11, I had made an impact on a small level by standing up for equality.”