Meghan Markle tackles taboo of finance as she opens up on the 'guilt of having a lot'

As continues to ride the wave of her current entrepreneurial renaissance, the proud mum of two has wasted no time in sharing how she really feels when it comes to life in the spotlight.

From sharing glimpses of her day to day diet in her show, through to updating fans on social media with heartwarming snippets of her home life, Meghan has opened the door to what it's really like to live as a royal family member - and that even extends to sharing how she feels about more taboo subjects such as finance.

Yet as a successful actress in her own right, and the wife of a Prince, it's safe to say that Meghan isn't exactly living hand to mouth, but that doesn't mean her life hasn't come without it's own challenges, particularly when it comes to pursing financial freedom.

Opening up about the topic in the season finale of her Meghan sat down with the billionaire brains behind shapewear brand Spanx, Sara Blakely.

During their conversation, Blakely, 54, encouraged listeners to become more "self aware" and to take closer look at which mindset they were adopting when it came to money.

"A lot of people don't even realise they have not great narratives around success or around obtaining a lot of financial freedom and money for themselves," she explained, before adding that she wanted to be able to invest in herself.

In response, the Duchess of Sussex, 43 replied: "But that is so hard to understand because, I genuinely believe, I would love to adopt that level of a mindset where as you're talking about even, for a lot of people, not being able to buy into the hope or the promise of something more for themselves in financial freedom."

"I think so many women, especially, we're taught to not even talk about money, and there's lots of guilt mentality surrounding having a lot," Meghan continued. "And at the same time, there's a scarcity mindset that it's easy to attach to, of like, 'I'll never have enough.' "

Blakely then remarked: "I always tell women, in particular, I say: 'Money is really fun to make, really fun to spend and really fun to give away.' I think money makes you more of who you already were."

Meghan's perspective of finance may come as a shock to some fans, given her own personal wealth, but it does make sense given her reinvention following her marriage to Prince Harry back in 2019. Prior to tying the knot, Meghan had been worth an estimated £3.7million, largely thanks to her acting credentials, including on the first seven seasons of legal drama Suits.

Yet when she and her husband Harry stepped back from royal life in 2020, the couple revealed they wanted to "work to become financially independent," and to have more control over their lives - something that didn't come without it's own obstacles.

Speaking to Oprah Winfrey a year after their move to the US, Prince Harry revealed that the royal family had "literally cut me off financially" following the decision to step back, and added that he was lucky to have still possessed the money left to him by his late mother Princess Diana.

"Without that, we wouldn't have been able to do this," he said, in a reference to their 2020 move to Montecito, California. Since making the trip across the pond, both the Duke and Duchess signed lucrative deals with Netflix and Spotify, not to mention launching a tell-all memoir, but despite the business endeavours, Harry admitted "that was never part of the plan."

"From my perspective, all I needed was enough money to be able to pay for security to keep my family safe," he told Winfrey.