By Molly Claire Goddard
7:06am PDT, Sep 26, 2025
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Meghan Markle's days at Northwestern University may be coming back to haunt her.
According to a former classmate of the Duchess of Sussex, her reputation amongst the members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority exactly mirrors how she allegedly operated within The Firm.
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In royal expert
Andrew Morton's
book,
Meghan and the Unmasking of the Monarchy, Meghan Markle's fellow student at the Illinois college
Ann Meade recalled that the
Suits star was considered "overly assertive" and "a tad too persuasive" by her sorority sisters.
Commentator
Amanda Matta noted how Meghan was accused of acting the same way around her husband's family. "The sorority anecdotes show someone who wanted to organize, steer and contribute, which are qualities that show up again in Meghan's approach to royal projects," the journalist said in an
interview. "But I can see how the determination that helped her stand out in college would later clash with the royal institution, which doesn't reward individuality."
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Meghan Markle's unwavering desire to achieve personal success was something that was not appreciated when she married into
Prince Harry's family.
"Meghan Markle's sorority experience certainly contributed to her social agility, further fired her ambition, but likely foreshadowed the eventual culture clash she experienced within the far more refined monarchy," reporter
Hilary Fordwich emphasized in an
interview. "Particularly the sorority values emphasizing individual self-promotion and her craving for visibility clashed with royal expectations of self-effacement and adherence to protocol within the hierarchy. She initially was popular as a royal, but her lack of dedication to duty and her participation in denigrating the royals rendered her popularity irretrievable."
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Meghan Markle graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with a double major in theater and international studies. The With Love, Meghan star recently opened up about the experience of being a part of the on-campus group as a biracial member of a majority-white sorority.
"I was at Northwestern and I moved into Kappa, our sorority there," Meghan recalled in an episode of her "Confessions of a Female Founder" podcast. "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 and have a paper towel on the side. You'd pull it out and it would have the little scorch marks. And I remember most of the girls in the sorority who were not Black would 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."
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After leaving The Firm in 2020, Meghan Markle was also candid about being a biracial member of the royal family.
"It's very different to be a minority but not be treated as a minority right off the bat. Obviously, now, people are very aware of my race because they made it such an issue when I went to the U.K. But before that, most people didn't treat me like a 'Black woman.' So that talk didn't have to happen for me," she explained in the 2022 Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan.
