Following the end of the royal mourning for Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday, Spotify confirmed the release of new episodes of Meghan Markle’s Archetypes. Below the podcast’s “About” area, a statement reads, “Regularly scheduled episodes will resume Tuesday, October 4.”
Meghan Markle launched her podcast in August, welcoming her close friend, Serena Williams, and other celebrities, Mariah Carey and Mindy Kaling to debunk stereotypes that hold women back. After the death of Queen Elizabeth on September 8, new episodes of Archetypes were placed on hold.
Paused Episodes Of Meghan Markle’s P “Archetypes” To Be Released After The End Of The Royal Mourning
The podcast’s spotify site read, “New episodes of Archetypes will be paused during the official mourning period for Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II. The most recent episode hosted Mindy Kaling, 43, for a conversation titled “The Stigma of Singleton.” Meghan and Mindy dissected definitions of “spinster” and “old maid” and talked about the gendered pressure for women to get married.
Meghan revealed at the close of the episode that the next guests on the podcast would be Margaret Cho and Lisa Ling, where they’d break down the trope “Dragon Lady.” Cho said in a clip, “It’s kind of like evil queen adjacent, femme fatale adjacent. But it’s also so pinned to this idea that Asianness is an inherent threat, that our foreignness is somehow gonna getcha!”
In 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex first announced a “multi-year partnership” between Spotify and their production company,Archewell Audio. A previously shared press stated that Archetypes intends to “investigate the labels that try to hold women back.”
Serena Williams was the first guest on Meghan’s podcast for an episode titled “The Misconceptions of Ambition,” where the duo discussed the double standards society sets for ambitious women. Two days after the release of the episode, Meghan’s Archetypes became the number one podcast in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada on Spotify‘s international charts.
Meghan said in a promo for the show that “People should expect the real me in this, and probably the me that they’ve never gotten to know — certainly not in the past few years, where everything is through the lens of the media as opposed to, ‘Hey, it’s me.’ I’m just excited to be myself and talk and be unfiltered and…yeah, it’s fun.”
