The life of Meghan Markle

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Her split from Britain's royal family sent shockwaves around the world. Now, Meghan Markle is "ready to talk" in a tell-all interview with Oprah this Sunday...  This is her story.

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00:00It is said that girls with dreams become women with vision.

00:10May we empower each other to carry out such vision, because it isn't enough to simply

00:19talk about equality.

00:22One must believe in it.

00:30In a world that can seem so aggressive, confrontational, and dangerous, you should know that you have

00:41the power to change it.

01:00I don't think it's right for kids to grow up thinking these things, that just mom does

01:12everything.

01:13The tagline said, women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.

01:23Two boys from my class said, yeah, that's where women belong, in the kitchen.

01:34I remember feeling shocked, and angry, and also just feeling so hurt.

01:44It just wasn't right, and something needed to be done.

01:53What I remember most strongly is talking to a very dynamic senior who was multitasking,

02:13who understood that her voice contributes to a lot of conversations.

02:53I'm biracial.

03:03Most people can't tell what I'm mixed with, and so much of my life has felt like being

03:08a fly on the wall.

03:10And so some of the slurs that I've heard, or the really offensive jokes, or the names,

03:16it's just hit me in a really strong way.

03:18And then a couple years ago, I heard someone call my mom the N-word.

03:29I'm a California girl, born and raised, so the flip-flop culture is part of just who

03:35I am.

03:36I love my cutoffs and flip-flops, and being as relaxed as can be, which is why it's so

03:40fun to dress up and play Rachel.

03:49UN Women, as you guys know, has defined the year 2030 as the expiration date for gender

03:57inequality.

04:00And here's what's staggering.

04:01The studies show that at the current rate, the elimination of gender inequality won't

04:09be possible until 2095.

04:18Because I'm from the States, you don't grow up with the same understanding of the royal

04:27family.

04:28And so while I now understand very clearly there's a global interest there, I didn't

04:34know much about him.

04:35And so the only thing that I had asked her when she said she wanted to set us up was,

04:39I had one question.

04:40I said, well, is he nice?

04:48I said, well, is he nice?

04:55Blutony was centered around your ethnicity, Megan.

04:59When you realized that, what did you think?

05:01Of course it's disheartening.

05:05It's a shame that that is the climate in this world to focus that much on that or that that

05:10would be discriminatory in that sense.

05:13But I think at the end of the day, I'm really just proud of who I am and where I come from

05:18Oh yeah, Buckingham Palace proudly announce the engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

05:27It happened a few weeks ago, earlier this month, here at our cottage, just a standard

05:34typical night for us.

05:35It was a cosy night.

05:36It was, what were we doing?

05:38Just roasting chicken and having dinner, trying to roast a chicken.

05:42And it was just an amazing surprise.

05:45It was so sweet and natural and very romantic.

05:50He got on one knee.

06:45After they kill off his mom, they don't want to be there anymore.

07:11We are just trying to embrace all of the quality time we get with our son right now

07:16and to not miss a single moment of his growth and development.

07:26I realized the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing because George Floyd's life

07:37mattered and Breonna Taylor's life mattered and Philando Castile's life mattered and

07:42Tamir Rice's life mattered.

08:07I don't know how they could expect that after all of this time, we would still just be silent

08:20if there is an active role that the firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us.

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