WATCH: A young Meghan Markle takes on sexist soap commercial

The future royal princess was a fierce feminist at just 11 years old

The future royal princess was a fierce feminist at just 11 years old

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Meghan Markle may be the talk of Buckingham Palace now that she’s set to marry Prince Harry, but long before that when she was just 11 years old, Markle was getting her young activism on.

A video from Nickelodeon’s Nick News has resurfaced of a young Markle taking on Procter & Gamble over a sexist Ivory dishwasher soap commercial.

The commercial, which aired in 1993, started with the line, “Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans,” which Markle took exception to for its suggestion that women were the only ones doing the dishes.

So, Markle wrote to Procter & Gamble and told them what she thought, urging them to change the line to “people” rather than “women.”

“I don’t think it’s right for kids to grow up thinking these things that just Mom does everything,” Markle said. “It’s always ‘Mom does this,’ and ‘Mom does that.’”

Procter & Gamble did eventually change the ad, too.

Clearly she was always cut out for the royal spotlight.

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