Meghan Markle has broken royal protocol as she headed down to vote in the US mid-term elections.
The Duchess of Sussex urged her fellow Americans to vote as she exercised her own civic duty.
In a photo shared to her Archewell site overnight, an "I voted" sticker can be seen plastered across her t-shirt.
The smiling picture was then accompanied by a spearate post titled “VOTE”.
“Today is Election Day in the US! Time to get out and vote!” the post read.
Meghan and Prince Harry also shared a text service number which aims to help find polling locations and other information for voters.
“Text ARCHEWELL to 26797 to find your polling location and make sure you are ready to vote,” they added.
Meghan's voting announcement is one of the few times a member of the royal family has voted in an election.
The Duchess was the first modern royal to vote in a US presidential election when she casted her ballot back in 2020, according to people.com.
A source told the site at the time that Meghan “is voting in this election”, but would not say whether she voted early or locally in California, where she lives with Prince Harry and their two children Archie, three, and Lilibet, one.
Harry and Meghan stepped down from their position as senior royals before moving stateside in January 2020.
Senior members of the royal family are technically allowed to vote but are usually expected to remain neutral on political matters.
For example, the late Queen Elizabeth II did not vote, but the royal website said this was due to "convention" rather than the monarch being banned from doing so.
“As head of state the Queen has to remain strictly neutral with respect to political matters,” the website states.
King Charles III is expected to follow suit although was vocal on a number of issues during his service as Prince of Wales.
But this is not the first time Meghan and Harry have urged Americans to vote.
Back in September 2020, the couple described the 2020 presidential election as “the most important election of our lifetime”, adding that when people vote, their “values are put into action” and their “voices are heard”.
A total of 35 Senate seats are up for grabs this year in the mid-term elections and Republicans only need to gain one to take control of the chamber from the Democrats.
This year's election may change the historical trend of voters using the midterm elections to punish the sitting party in the White House.
Midterms are usually an indicator of the approval rating of a president halfway through their term, but deeply divisive issues such as guns, abortion and threats to democracy add to the importance of this year's elections.
The 2022 Midterm elections will also have ramifications for people around the world, as parts of the GOP contain factions threatening to cut or stop the funding of Ukraine in its fight against the aggression of Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Meanwhile, Meghan recently took a thinly-veiled swipe at those who branded her "difficult" in the latest episode of her Spotify podcast.
In this week's episode of Archetypes, Meghan "explores the origin and plague of 'the B-word' and its cousin 'difficult' and how these terms are often wrongly applied to a strong-minded woman".
Reports from when Meghan and husband Prince Harry were still working members of the Royal Family suggested that she had been given the label of "Duchess Difficult".
It came following claims that the former Suits actress would fire off emails in the early morning hours and make "huge demands" of her staff.
And in the latest episode of Archetypes, Meghan examines why women are sometimes branded a b****, and said: "What these people are implying when they use that very charged word, is that this woman, 'Oh, she's difficult'."
