Before becoming part of the British royal family or starring in TV series, Meghan Markle was just another college student at Northwestern in Illinois.
In between her theater and international relations classes, she also found time to join a sorority – Kappa Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Meghan Markle’s Sorority Days Resurface
When news broke of Harry and Meghan’s engagement, the sorority, proud to have a duchess among its former members, recently shared a composite photo of Meghan taken during the 2000-2001 academic year.
In the image she appears smiling, with that youthful air she still retains.
Although more than two decades have passed, the image makes clear the style Meghan wore at the time and she has recently spoken about it.
Meghan talks about her life in the sorority
In the second episode of her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder, Meghan dropped an anecdote that ended up transporting her straight back to her days as part of the sorority.
“It kind of reminds me of when I was at Northwestern, and I moved into Kappa, our sorority there,” she commented with a chuckle.
The conversation came from talking with her friend and stylist Kadi Lee about the difficulties of finding the right products and techniques for curly hair when they were teenagers.
Meghan, like many biracial girls, had to fend for herself: “I don’t even think they made plug-in flat irons at the time. They couldn’t! If they did, I didn’t know where they were, because I had the little stove, with the flat iron that would go in, have a paper towel on the side.”
He tells it with humor, but also with honesty.
“Probably half the people listening to this are going, ‘What is she talking about?’” he joked. “Or you’d pull it out, it would have the little scorch marks. And I remember most of the girls in the sorority who were not Black say, ‘What’s that smell? Is hair burning?’ And it was just what you would do to figure out how to grapple with this texture of hair.”
Meghan attended Northwestern from 1999-2003, where she graduated with a double major in theater and international relations.