A former UN Women’s Advocate for Women’s Political Participation and Leadership, the Duchess of Sussex has been a vocal feminist from the get-go. Aged 11, she successfully challenged consumer goods goliath P&G on a sexist commercial.

Since marrying Prince Harry, she has broken royal protocol by wearing all-black in support of the Time’s Up movement, and chose to support women affected by the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy as her first solo royal project.

Meghan’s words, actions and choices continue to make her exactly what the royal family needed in our eyes. And if we didn’t already appreciate her enough, imagining her covering her university tuition by stacking books in the campus library has pretty much sealed the deal.

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Meghan Markle’s first royal tour speech was all about the power of female education