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Meghan Markle has arrived at the International Women’s Day panel at King’s College London today, her biggest event of month so far. She went for a polished ’60s vibe in a black and white patterned dress by Reiss with a black blazer and heels. She had her hair in a bun:
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Meghan will be joined on the panel with Annie Lennox (The Circle NGO’s founder), Adwoa Aboah (Gurls Talk founder), Julia Gillard (Global Institute for Women’s Leadership chair), Chrisann Jarrett (Let Us Learn founder), and Angeline Murimirwa (executive director of Camfed). The group will talk about the issues facing women today.
Meghan has long made it clear that championing gender equality would be a key part of her royal platform. When she gave the first hint of what her royal work would be focused on at the Royal Foundation Forum with Prince Harry, Kate Middleton, and Prince William last year, Meghan singled out women’s empowerment.
“I hear a lot of people speaking about girls’ empowerment and women’s’ empowerment,” Meghan said then. “You’ll often hear people say well, you’re helping women find their voices. And I fundamentally disagree with that because women don’t need to find their voices, they have a voice. They need to be empowered to use it, and people need to be encouraged to listen. And I think right now in the climate that we’re seeing so many campaigns—I mean, #MeToo and TimesUp—there’s no better time than [now] to really continue to shine a light on women feeling empowered and people really helping to support them…It [the spotlight] makes such a tremendous difference.”
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