Meghan Markle has said the British citizenship test is “so hard” even Prince Harry had “no idea” of some of the answers. The American-born Duchess of Sussex spoke about studying for the Life in the UK test on the latest episode of her Archetypes podcast.
Meghan, 41, said she turned to Harry for help while practicing for the official government quiz, but the British-born duke also struggled with the questions. When Meghan’s engagement to Harry was confirmed in 2017, Buckingham Palace announced the former actress would become a British citizen.
But the Sussexes quit the working monarchy in 2020 and moved to the US, amid reports Meghan had abandoned the process of seeking citizenship. Chatting to American actress and director Pamela Adlon – who recently became a British citizen – Meghan said: “That citizenship exam is so hard.
“I was studying for it and I remember going ‘Oh my goodness’. I would ask my husband ‘Did you know this?’ and he would [say] ‘I had no idea’.”
Adlon – best known for voicing Bobby Hill in the animated comedy series King of the Hill – joked: “I think they made it harder for you. They were like ‘We’re gonna really throw up walls on this one’.”
Meghan laughed and said, “You think?”
The Duchess also chatted with her “dear friend” Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, the First Lady of Canada – wife of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. The friends spoke about how they spent time together in the summer with their children, and how Meghan bought an “inflatable pizza slice” pool float which proved to be a “big hit”.
She said: “This wasn’t our day of being the wives and moms, all perfectly quaffed with up dos and pearls and demure smiles. This was the other version of us, both with wild curly hair and swimsuits and loose linen and huge belly laughs, big cuddles with our little ones and quiet whispers of girl talk on the terrace, giddy like school girls.
“We were just having so much fun.”
Meghan described the episode – titled Good Wife/Bad Wife, Good Mom/Bad Mom – as digging into the roles women play on the home front and looking at how to “break out of the limiting version of these moulds society has carved out for us”.
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