Meghan Markle is celebrating her 38th birthday today! The Duchess of Sussex has had quite a ~royal~ year.
In 2019, she celebrated her first wedding anniversary with Prince Harry, the royal couple welcomed their first baby together Archie Harrison and the new mom has had the opportunity to work on important projects, including her guest editing gig for the September issue of British Vogue.
Loyal royal fans out there might think they know everything about the Duchess of Sussex, but there are many little known facts about one of our favorite royals like a) her name actually isn't Meghan Markle and b) she has a love for literature.
Keep scrolling for other interesting facts in honor of the royal's birthday!
Her name isn't Meghan Markle
That's right! Meghan Markle was actually born Rachel Meghan Markle. Coincidentally, that also happens to be the name of her character on Suits.
She changed a national commercial at age 11
After seeing an Ivory soap commercial that claimed "women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans," an 11-year-old Meghan wrote to the company (and then First Lady Hillary Clinton), requesting the sexist language be changed from "women" to "people."
“At age 11, I had seen a commercial at the time that I thought to be very sexist,” she said about that experience. “Truth be told, at 11 I don’t think I even knew what sexism meant. I just knew that something struck me internally that was telling me it was wrong, and I knew that it was wrong. And using that as my moral compass and moving through from the age of 11, at that age I was able to change this commercial."
She attended an all-girls Catholic school
Meghan went to Immaculate Heart High School, an all-girls Catholic school in Los Angeles. “I went to an all-girls Catholic school for like six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class,” she previously told Esquire.