Malala Yousafzai’s chat with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
Duke and duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan, had a candid online chat with Nobel prize laureate to celebrate International day of girl.
October 11 is the International Day of the Girl, which aims to raise awareness of the inequalities girls are still facing around the world.
Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry joined activist Malala Yousafzai to talk about the hardships that girls face to attain education and how COVID19 has added upon the situation.
Nobel Prize laureate Malala and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have all been huge champions of ensuring girls can go to school around the world.
The 23-year-old Malala famously fought for her own education in Pakistan and survived an assassination attempt when she was 15.
She went on to attend Oxford, from which she graduated this past spring.
Details of Malala and the Royal’s chat
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel prize laureate, first told the topic of the discussions after sharing her greetings back and forth with the royals.
She continued by saying how “lucky” she feels to have a father who supported her in having her own voice and encouraged her to go to school.
Meghan and Harry agreed that they’d both been fortunate to have received the education they did, and the duchess added that raising Archie has further highlighted this for them.
Clearly passionate about the subject, Meghan discussed the importance of an education for women, especially to be able to prepare them later in life.
“When young girls have access to education everyone wins and everyone succeeds,” she said. “It just opens the door for societal success at the highest level.
“It’s not just robbing a society of the cultural richness that comes with educating young girls – it’s also robbing these young girls of childhood.”
In their YouTube live session they further said;
“When young girls have access to education, everyone wins and everyone succeeds. It just opens doors for societal success at the highest level,” opened Meghan as she thanked Yousafzai.
She added, revealing why she was an advocate working with the Association of Commonwealth Universities herself.
“What I had realized very early on was that when women have a seat at the table, conversations in terms of policy change, conversations in terms of legislation and the dynamics of the community are all shifted,”
Prince Harry too, acknowledged its importance, and how he understands it better now than he did as a child and state;
“When you have an education, it provides money, it provides an income which makes you less susceptible to disaster,”
During Malala ‘s chat with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Malala also found out how Meghan and Harry have been able to spend more time as a family throughout the past few months.
“We were both there for his first steps,” Harry explained. “His first run, his first fall, his first everything.”
Meanwhile, Meghan also admitted she felt “fortunate” to be able to spend so much time with Archie, who was born in May 2019, during some formative years.
“In so many ways we are fortunate to be able to have this time to watch him grow, and in the absence of COVID-19, we would be travelling and working more,” she said. “We’d miss a lot of those moments.”
