Meghan Markle praised the Ms. Foundation while accepting their signature Woman of Vision Award at New York’s Ziegfeld Ballroom Tuesday, May 16, 2023.
Markle, wearing a gold dress with daring cutouts that flouted royal protocol, began her speech by thanking journalist/activist and founding president of the foundation Gloria Steinem for her “sage advice” and “cheeky sense of humor.” She went on to recall flipping through the pages of Ms. magazine in her Cloverdale home as a child.
“I remember them vividly because the pictures were different. There was a diversity I hadn’t seen as often, both of color and of age, and the names were different. There were congresswomen, there were astronauts, and the topics were different,” she told the ballroom.
She noted that the images she saw in Ms. were “different from the covers of the magazines I would see at the grocery store checkout.”
Markle’s mother, Doria Ragland, was a subscriber to the magazine, and the future Duchess felt its “significance” even if she “was too young at the time to know what most of it meant.”
“Having these pages in our home, it signaled to me that there was just so much more than the dolled-up covers and the images that you would see on the grocery store covers. It signaled to me that substance mattered,” Markle continued. Steinem and President and CEO of the Ms. Foundation Teresa C. Younger beamed at her as she spoke.
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