Meghan Markle has admitted her mother Doria Ragland still calls her by a nickname from her childhood.
The duchess discussed pet names with actress Michaela Jae Rodriguez for the penultimate episode of her Archetypes podcast on Spotify.
‘My mum still calls me Flower,’ she revealed. ‘I’ll be a 41-year-old Flower. That’s fine.’
Introducing the podcast, Meghan said they would be talking about ‘living outside of the box’ – boxes people ‘get pushed inside of’.
‘What is it like when you live beyond those lines?’ she asked.
‘When you colour outside of them, freely expressing our identities, and embracing the nuances that make us quite simply a human being.’
Before touching on those themes of identity, Meghan began the episode with a surprise visit to the Immaculate Heart all-girls Catholic school in Los Angeles, where she was a pupil from the age of 12 to 17.
She said those are ‘really formative years’, adding: ‘They certainly were for me. And let me just say, being back there, the energy, it was… it was palpable.’
Meghan later gave listeners an insight into her home life when she referred to a piece of art she has in her lounge.
‘It’s not fancy. It’s kind of this rectangle shape, almost plaque-like. And it just says a few words very simply across it – “Human kind be both”,’ she said.
The duchess said her ‘dear friend’ Genevieve gave her the artwork a couple of years ago, adding: ‘We’ve been super close since we were about 17. But also because it’s true. Human kind be both.’
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