{"id":68442,"date":"2025-04-08T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=68442"},"modified":"2025-04-29T06:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:36:41","slug":"meghan-markle-only-utilized-her-first-name-to-address-herself-in-new-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/meghan-markle-only-utilized-her-first-name-to-address-herself-in-new-podcast\/68442\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle only utilized her first name to address herself in new podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"481\">Meghan Markle has once again stirred discussion online, this time for how she\u2019s presenting herself publicly. In the debut episode of her new podcast <em data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"182\">Confessions of a Female Founder<\/em>, she introduced herself simply as \u201cMeghan,\u201d leaving out both \u201cMarkle\u201d and her royal title, \u201cSussex.\u201d It\u2019s a subtle but noticeable shift\u2014especially since, just last month, she was heavily criticized for insisting on being called \u201cSussex\u201d during an interview with Mindy Kaling on <em data-start=\"461\" data-end=\"480\">With Love, Meghan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"483\" data-end=\"874\">During that earlier episode, when Kaling casually referred to her as \u201cMeghan Markle,\u201d Meghan quipped, \u201cYou keep saying Meghan Markle. You know I\u2019m Sussex now,\u201d explaining that it means a lot to her to share a family name with her husband, Prince Harry, and their kids. That moment quickly spread on social media, where many users slammed her for being overly formal or too fixated on titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"1260\">Fast-forward to her podcast launch, and she appears to be taking a new approach. Neither the episode credits nor the promo banner use her last name or title\u2014just <em data-start=\"1038\" data-end=\"1046\">Meghan<\/em>. It\u2019s a notable departure from her usual public identity and may be a deliberate effort to appear more relatable and less tied to royal branding, especially in a show focused on women entrepreneurs and leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1262\" data-end=\"1514\">Whether it\u2019s a rebranding strategy or just a personal choice to keep things casual, the internet is definitely paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle has once again stirred discussion online, this time for how she\u2019s presenting herself publicly. In the debut episode\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":68443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1588],"class_list":["post-68442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-meghan-markle"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68442","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=68442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}