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Meghan delivered a heartfelt speech to students who are graduating from her former high school, Immaculate Heart High School in LA. The Duchess of Sussex focused her address on the ongoing protests in the US. 

She said: “I am so sorry that you have to grow up in a world where this is still present. I was 11 or 12 when I – I was just about to start the Immaculate Heart Middle School in the fall – it was the LA riots, which was also triggered by a senseless act of racism. 

“And I remember the curfew, and I remember rushing back home, and on that drive home seeing ash falling from the sky, and smelling the smoke and seeing the smile building out of building and seeing people rushing out of homes carrying bags and looting.

“And I remember seeing a man in the back of a van just holding guns and rifles.

“And I remember pulling up to the house and seeing the trees, that have always been there, completely charred.

“And those memories don’t go away. 

“And I can’t imagine that a 17 or 18 year old, which is how old you are now, that you would have to have a different version of that same type of experience.

“That’s something you should have an understanding of, but an understanding of as a history lesson, not as your reality.” 

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