Sunday Mirror (Northern Ireland)
HARRY’S7 SOUPER WOMAN
Meghan volunteered in homeless kitchen as teen.. just like her prince
MEGHAN Markle has revealed how she worked in a soup kitchen aged 13 – just as fiance Prince Harry helped the homeless when he was a lad.
Suits actress Meghan lent a hand on the infamous Skid Row in her hometown of LA.
In 1994 Harry and brother William visited
St Vincent Centre in London.
They accompanied their late mother Princess
Diana to the centre, which is run by a homeless charity.
She also took her boys to homeless housing support charity Centrepoint.
Meghan’s kindness emerged in excerpts from a book, The Game Changers: Success Secrets from Inspirational Women Changing The Game and Influencing The World.
She said: “I started working at a soup kitchen in Skid Row of Los Angeles when I was 13 years old, and the first day I felt really scared.
“I was young, and it was rough and raw down there, and though I was with a great volunteer group, I just felt overwhelmed.”
But Meghan, 36, who is to wed Harry, 33, at Windsor Castle on May 19, said: “I remember one of my mentors (Mrs Maria Pollia) told me that ‘life is about putting others’ needs above your own fears’. That has always stayed with me.”
Meghan went on to become women’s ambassador to the UN. She has also volunteered with charity World Vision on trips to Rwanda and India, and has been called a “true humanitarian”.