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Meghan describes herself as a loner and had no one to sit with at school

Meghan Markle says she was a ‘bit of a loner’ in school and struggled to ‘fit in’ with her peers.

The Duchess of Sussex added that she was ‘alone so much’ as a child.

As a teenager, she joined as many clubs as possible to fill otherwise lonely lunchtimes at the Immaculate Heart high school in Los Angeles.

In the latest episode of her Archetypes podcast, Meghan sat down with actor and writer Mindy Kaling to discuss the stigma surrounding single women.

The pair also discussed the impact of schooling on their future lives.

‘I never had anyone to sit with at lunch,’ said Meghan.

She told Kaling: ‘I was always a little bit of a loner and really shy and didn’t know where I fit in. So I thought, “oh I’ll just become the president of the multi cultural club and president of sophomore class and president of French club”.

‘That way I had meetings at lunch time and didn’t need to worry about who to sit with because I was so busy.’


The Duchess also described how she was ‘alone so much as a child’, saying she romanticised the Archie comics, a popular series in America, because she wanted the ‘cookie cutter-looking perfect life’.

She 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.’

Meghan said she wondered ‘Am I gonna get the guy one day?’, adding that she was ‘the smart one, not the pretty one’ growing up.

‘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.’

She added: ‘The associations our society makes around unmarried women feels so outdated and I wanted to give them a refresh.’

‘When I started dating my husband, we became engaged. Everyone was just like, “Oh my god, you’re so lucky, he chose you”.

“At a certain point, after you hear it a million times over, you’re like, “well, I chose him too”.’

Many comments she received were ‘gendered and archetyped’, she and Kaling agreed during the discussion.

Meghan also revealed how she began planning her future wedding from an early age, but she said it wasn’t out of choice.

An assignment at Immaculate Heart had challenged its female pupils to brainstorm ideas.

Meghan questioned why the assignment had even existed, saying: ‘At no point can you say “Nope. My dream for the future is to be single”.

‘The message even at my feminist all-girls school was as traditional as it gets. First comes love. Then comes marriage.’

She then ended the podcast by proudly stating she had recently visited her former school, and learned that the assignment was no longer in place.

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