Meghan Markle recently opened up about the intense media scrutiny she and Prince Harry faced when they were working members of the British royal family. As the American woman who married into the British royal family, Markle became a constant fixture on magazine covers, newspaper headlines, and everywhere in the media. The constant attention, often negative, was overwhelming for her.<\/p>\n
In the first episode of her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder<\/em>, Markle had an honest conversation with Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder and CEO of Bumble. During the chat, Herd shared a moment when she was in Ireland and was shocked to see Markle\u2019s face on \u201cevery single\u201d magazine cover at a newsstand. Despite being in a completely different country, Markle\u2019s image was everywhere. \u201cI had this moment of, \u2018Oh my\u2026what? I\u2019m in Ireland, and she\u2019s back home in California with her kids doing school drop-off, and she\u2019s on the front page of every single one of these?\u2019\u201d Herd recalled. Markle responded with a simple, \u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n The conversation then shifted to how both women had been targeted by media and online trolls, and how they\u2019ve learned to protect themselves by forming emotional \u201cshells.\u201d Markle explained how there came a point in her life when she realized that she could no longer be intimidated by the constant criticism. Instead of hiding from it or feeling small, she chose to confront it head-on. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have to decide whether you\u2019re going to cower or if you\u2019re going to conquer or rise above it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n After stepping back from their royal duties, Markle and Harry moved to California, where they now raise their two children, Archie and Lilibet. While they still retain their royal titles, they\u2019ve distanced themselves from the royal family. Prince Harry recently visited the UK to be with his father, King Charles, after the latter\u2019s cancer diagnosis became public. Harry is also in the UK at the moment, fighting for the right to have proper security when he and his family visit the country.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Markle is making her own mark in the media with her podcast, which she launched on April 8, 2025, following the release of her Netflix series With Love, Meghan<\/em>, last month. The couple\u2019s journey continues to be filled with challenges, but they are carving out their own path far from the royal spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meghan Markle recently opened up about the intense media scrutiny she and Prince Harry faced when they were working members\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":68428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1588],"class_list":["post-68427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-meghan-markle"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}