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Meghan Markle addressed her time as a member of the Royal Family and the unflattering nickname she was reportedly given by Palace staff during the last episode of her now-cancelled Spotify podcast.
Archetypes, which launched in 2022, saw Meghan talking with celebrities, historians and experts about the history of stereotypes that get levelled against women.
The Spotify show is said to have been dropped by the streaming service it didn't produce enough content to warrant a full payout of the $20m (£15m) deal Meghan and Prince Harry signed in 2020.
In a joint statement, the couple's Archewell media company and Spotify announced that they had "mutually agreed to part ways and are proud of the series we made together," according to the New York Post.
Meghan ended her Spotify show with a bang, addressing her former nickname as "Duchess Difficult" and other "labels that try to hold women back" in the episode alongside male guests TV producer Andy Cohen, movie director Judd Apatow and comedian Trevor Noah.
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Meghan was nicknamed "Duchess Difficult"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.
Near the end of the episode, in which she chatted to businesswomen Mellody Hobson and Victoria Jackson, Meghan said: "I was just chatting with my girlfriends recently and I was asking them for the show, what a sort of archetypes, you think we should discuss and almost immediately unequivocally they all jump to difficult.
"That's the word you have to talk about difficult."
And as she signed off from the last of the 12 episodes of this series, she told listeners how it had made her "feel seen".
Meghan seemingly took a swipe at her time in the Royal Family (Spotify)She added: "I heard a quote that I will share with you today because we talked about the label, tropes and boxes some may try to squeeze you into and the roles and stereotypes that are attributed to you, that don't quite fit the full person that you are.
“It's from a couplet within a piece of writing by Greek poet Dinos Christianopoulos and he says 'What didn't you do to bury me?'
"‘But you forgot that I was a seed to that point'. My friend, keep growing and I'll see you on the flip side as ever.”
According to royal expert and biographer Phil Dampier, the quote was aimed at the Royals, as he told The Sun : "I'm sure that it was a veiled reference to the restrictions of the Royal Family.
“It's a clever way of doing it because she’s not directly saying something but people can still read into it what they like.
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“Then if anyone takes offence she can say 'oh I didn't mean it like that’."
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