Meghan Markle seemed to hint at a very unflattering nickname as she made a ‘veiled’ swipe at her life in the Royal Family before stepping down.The Sussexes, who quit life as working royals in 2020, joined forces with Netflix soon after their shocking departure. They also teamed up with Spotify, signing a lucrative $25million (£19million) deal with the giant streaming service.
However, the partnership with Spotify came to an abrupt and sudden end last year after the couple produced just a few episodes of one standalone podcast, Archetypes, which was hosted by Meghan.
The 12-episode series, which saw the Sussexes branded as “grifters”, saw Meghan chat with different celebrity pals, including tennis icon Serena Williams, legendary singer Mariah Carey, and socialite Paris Hilton.
In one episode, Meghan was in conversation with Mellody Hobson, a businesswoman, and Victoria Jackson, when she seemed to make reference to one of her unflattering nicknames – ‘Duchess Difficult’.
“I was just chatting with my girlfriends recently and I was asking them for the show, what sort of archetypes you think we should discuss and almost immediately unequivocally they all jump to difficult,” she said. “That’s the word you have to talk about, ‘difficult’.”
Meghan ended her Spotify podcast in her final episode of the series by again hinting at her former nickname, as she touched on “labels that try to hold women back”, according to reports.
