How Diana, Kate, and Meghan Revolutionized Royal Motherhood

DYNASTY: The Royal Family’s Most Challenging Year

Vanity Fair

Society & Culture

3.6 • 860 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Motherhood is far from simple, but motherhood within the context and confines of a monarchy comes with its own set of challenges. From the queen to Princess Diana to the Duchess of Sussex, royal mothers have had to balance their maternal instincts with centuries of tradition. This episode explores the disparate ways Meghan, Kate, and the generations before them have entered into and engaged with motherhood—and how the modern royals have begun to change the narrative.

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0:23.0	Do you struggle with Mum guilt for having a juggle?
0:28.0	Yes, absolutely.
0:31.0	I think anyone who does as a mother is actually no. Yeah, all the time. Yeah, and you know even this morning, I went to the nursery visit here. Josh and Shadroix, I was like, mommy, how could he possibly not read off me off of her stuff at school this morning?
0:44.4	But no, it's a constant challenge.
0:47.2	That's the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, on her first podcast back in February 2020. It was for a show called Happy
0:55.4	Mum, Happy Baby hosted by Giovanni Fletcher, a blogger,
0:59.4	blogger, a podcast host. And even though it was Kate's first experience recording a
1:05.3	podcast interview, she spoke really honestly about a topic that's obviously
1:10.6	very personal but but also universal.
1:13.2	Parenting.
1:14.2	And some of us UK Royal Correspondents were invited to Kensington Palace to listen to
1:19.6	the first airing of the show before it went out and it was really enlightening and actually
1:24.8	very refreshing to hear Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, speak about motherhood
1:29.8	in a really normal way and she even admitted to finding some elements of it quite challenging.
1:37.0	You hear it time and time again for moms, even moms who aren't necessarily working and aren't
1:41.6	pulled in in the direction directions of having to juggle
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