Meghan Markle releases delayed fourth episode of her Archetypes podcast after it was postponed following death of the Queen as she discusses label of ‘Dragon Lady’

• Duchess of Sussex explores ‘Dragon Lady’ stereotype with journalist Lisa Ling and comedian Margaret Cho
• The duchess began by talking about her experience of growing up in Los Angeles and going to a Korean spa
• Attacked Austin Powers and Kill Bill for presenting women of Asian descent as ‘over sexualised or aggressive’

Meghan Markle’s Archetypes podcast resumed today on Spotify after a four-week break following the death of the Queen.

The Duchess of Sussex, in her latest episode released this morning, explores the ‘Dragon Lady’ stereotype with journalist Lisa Ling and comedian Margaret Cho.

The duchess began by talking about her experience of growing up in Los Angeles which was ‘full of culture that you could see, feel, hear and taste on a daily basis’ and said she had a ‘real love’ of getting to know other cultures.

She spoke of going to a Korean spa with her mother as a teenager, adding: ‘It’s a very humbling experience for a girl going through puberty because you enter a room with women from ages nine to maybe 90, all walking around naked and waiting to get a body scrub on one of these tables that are all lined up in a row. All I wanted was a bathing suit.

‘Once I was over that adolescent embarrassment, my mom and I, we would go upstairs we would sit in a room and we would have a steaming bowl of the most delicious noodles.’

The duchess criticised the films Austin Powers and Kill Bill for presenting ‘caricatures of women of Asian descent as often times over sexualised or aggressive’.

Meghan said she was not aware of the stigmas faced by women of Asian descent until many years later. ‘The Dragon Lady, the East Asian temptress whose mysterious foreign allure is scripted as both tantalising and deadly,’ she told Cho.

‘This has seeped into a lot of our entertainment. But this toxic stereotyping of women of Asian descent, it doesn’t just end once the credits roll.’

 Meghan, in her latest episode released on Tuesday, explores the ‘Dragon Lady’ stereotype with journalist Lisa Ling and comedian Margaret Cho

Revealed: Meghan Markle hires fact-checker for her Spotify podcast series Archetypes

By Richard Eden for the Daily Mail  

Meghan Markle has hired a fact-checker for her much-anticipated Spotify podcast series, Archetypes.

Her poise and passion in front of a camera or microphone are surely unequalled in royal history. But these gifts haven’t blinded the Duchess of Sussex to the fact that she, like the rest of mankind, is fallible.

The Daily Mail’s Richard Eden can reveal that Meghan has been employing a ‘fact-checker’ for Archetypes, which resumes today, having been suspended immediately after the Queen’s death.

Meghan hasn’t chosen a run-of-the-mill recruit but a young and highly talented American writer, Nicole Pasulka, whose interests closely mirror her own.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex greet US singer Pharrell Williams at the European Premiere of Disney’s The Lion King

‘I write about criminal justice, activism, race, music, business, queer culture, and gender,’ Pasulka alerts visitors to her website, which mentions that she is ‘currently writing a book’.

In fact, her book was published this summer — entitled: How You Get Famous.

Lest the uninitiated leap to the conclusion that it’s a fictionalised account of an attractive, mixed-race, American actress being catapulted to international attention by marrying the younger son of a king, they should think again.

It is, instead, ‘a deep dive into New York city’s underground drag scene’, and has been praised as ‘an engaging book that will appeal to scholars of gender as well as anyone with an interest in queer culture’. There is currently no suggestion that Pasulka’s role will extend beyond the podcast.

A fact-checker could cut through the confusion which has occasionally — and unfortunately — followed some of Meghan’s statements. For example, in an interview with American magazine The Cut, she recalled chatting to a South African cast member of The Lion King at the film’s 2019 London premiere

That’s a shame. A fact-checker could cut through the confusion which has occasionally — and unfortunately — followed some of Meghan’s statements. 

For example, in an interview with American magazine The Cut, she recalled chatting to a South African cast member of The Lion King at the film’s 2019 London premiere.

‘He said: ‘I just need you to know: When you married into this family, we rejoiced in the streets the same we did when Mandela was freed from prison,’ ‘ Meghan recalled.

Yet Dr John Kani, the only South African cast member, has pointed out that he has never met Meghan and wasn’t at the premiere. Of course, as the late Queen memorably put it on another occasion, ‘recollections may vary’.  

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