Meghan Markle Talks About Empowering Women and Her Daughter

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Meghan Markle participated in the Afro Women and Power conference in Cali, Colombia, and proudly retold her go-to tale about how she wrote to Procter & Gamble aged 11 to ask the brand to change its sexist soap commercial. She paid tribute to her mother and gushed over her three-year-old daughter Lilibet, saying, 'I encourage our daughter...at three she has found her voice and we are so proud of that.' Meghan learned Spanish in 2002 when interning at the U.S. embassy in Argentina, and used it to open her intervention at the debate, speaking to the audience in Spanish and calling Colombia's first Black Vice-President, Francia Marquez, 'my friend.'

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