Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, might have let the shady side of her relationship with Catherine, Princess of Wales, slip out during the first episode of her new podcast. Meghan’s friend and founder of the popular dating app Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd, sat down for “Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan,” which debuted on April 8. In the episode, Wolfe Herd talked about when Meghan and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, debuted their first child, Prince Archie, to the world just two days after he was born. And Meghan’s choice to leave her comments in the episode’s final cut might have been a bit of subtle shade directed toward Kate Middleton.
While Wolfe Herd chatted with Meghan, she recalled, “I’ll never forget the image of you after you delivered Archie and the whole world was waiting for his debut.” She added, “I was either just becoming or about to become a new mom, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, how is this woman doing this? How is this woman putting on heels and going and debuting a child in this, you know, beautiful outfit in front of the entire world?'” Of course, stepping out to show off your baby to the public just two days after giving birth is anything but typical. For the royal family, however, it’s how things are done — and Kate managed to one up Meghan, famously showing off each of her babies just hours after their births.
Meghan Markle may have edited the podcast episode to highlight the royal family’s strange rules
Meghan Markle’s decision to wait longer than Kate Middleton to show off her baby outside the hospital where he was born was neither the first nor the last time the public would compare her to her sister-in-law. Since Meghan faced criticism for what was perceived as a long wait to show off Prince Archie, she surely appreciated Whitney Wolfe Herd’s take on the situation. Wolfe Herd recalled her own postpartum experience, joking, “I could barely face a doorbell delivery for takeout food in a robe. I was like, ‘Please don’t look at me! Leave it down the street!'”
As it turned out, Archie’s debut was actually one of the rare times we’ve seen him and his sister Princess Lilibet. We don’t see much of Archie and Lilibet since Meghan and Prince Harry have been careful to shield them from the limelight — another choice for which they’ve gotten flak. It would have been easy for Meghan to edit this conversation out of her podcast episode and just avoid the topic entirely. Yet, her choice to leave it in may have been a way to draw attention to just how odd the royal family’s expectations were for her as a new mom. And it may have been a bit of a dig at Kate’s adherence to the palaces’ peculiar expectations, as well.
