The Duchess of Sussex has cleared up an assumption about her son Archie's name in the latest episode of podcast Archetypes. In the latest episode, Meghan Markle spoke with actress Mindy Kaling about the joys, challenges and stigmas of being a single, unmarried woman.
And the pair discussed some of their favourite books growing up - including novel 'Harriet the Spy' and 'Archie', an American comic strip, featuring clumsy lothario Archie Andrews. The popular comic strip feature a main character who has red hair just like the Duke of Sussex.
Archie Andrews is known as "America’s typical teenager” and he and his friends have been updated for a modern audience with Riverdale.
In the podcast, Kaling said that the comics "never got too sexy”, before jokily teling Meghan: "Well, you like redheads.”
Meghan quipped back: "I do and I like the name Archie”, before describing it as all being "full circle”.
The pair spoke about growing up as so-called 'latch-key kids' who let themselves in to the house while parents are at work.
Speaking to Mindy, Meghan added: "I was alone so much as a child, and also a latchkey kid and I think I read a lot of Archie comic books.
"Ironically, my son is not named after Archie comic books but I loved them and collected them.
Describing her love of the books, she said: "My parents split up when I was around two or three years old and I always wanted this sort of cookie cutter, looking, perfect, life, and you looked at that and I romanticised it.
"It's all part of the things that make you have this idea of what you want your life to be like when I grow up.
"But I always thought 'I'm way more Betty than Veronica' and 'am I going to get the guy one day?' and I was the smart one, not the pretty one.
"All this stuff was wrapped up in reading Archie comic books and I think it was aspirational in some ways."
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Earlier in the episode, Meghan told listeners: “When I was 14, I planned my wedding. Not my actual wedding, that would have been a bit harder to imagine.”
The duchess described how it was actually a religious studies assignment at her Catholic school and how she wanted her wedding to be in the Bel Air hotel, with a “Swan Lake” and “oh my goodness, the dress, strapless and pouffy and I’d seen it in a bridal magazine”.
“I took this project seriously, I wanted to get an A. And I did. Maybe I got an A minus,” Meghan said.
She questioned why the assignment had even existed, saying: "At no point can you say 'Nope. My dream for the future is to be single’.
"The message even at my feminist all-girls school was as traditional as it gets. First comes love. Then comes marriage.”
