PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle today spoke with Malala Yousafzai about the importance of girls’ education in the coronavirus crisis.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex spoke with the activist to mark International Day Of The Girl today.
Malala, now 23, was just 15 when shot in the head by a Taliban gunman after campaigning for girls to be educated in her native Pakistan.
Research by the Malala Fund suggests 20million secondary-age girls may never return to class following the coronavirus pandemic.
This is on top of the 130million girls were not in school before the global crisis.
Meghan wore a high-neck black sleeveless top and white trousers with her hair tied back.
She was joined by Harry from the living room of their £14million home in LA.
Meghan is an advocate for women’s rights and gender equality and spoke at the UN Women Conference in 2015.
She also told in July about the importance of “building each other up” in a passionate speech at the virtual Girl Up Leadership Summit.
The chat comes after Meghan claimed she was the “most trolled person in the world” last year in a mental health podcast with Harry aired yesterday.
The royal couple joined Californian high school students on their ‘Teenager Therapy’ podcast to mark Mental Health Day.
Meghan said: ““I’m told that in 2019 I was the most trolled person in the entire world, male or female.
“Eight months of that I wasn’t even visible – I was on maternity leave or with a baby.
“But what was able to be manufactured and churned out, it’s almost unsurvivable.
“I don’t care if you’re 15 or you’re 25 – if people are saying things about you that aren’t true, what that does to your mental and emotional health is so damaging.”
Harry and Meghan have been living in Santa Barbara with son Archie after quitting the royal family for the US.
