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MEGHAN MARKLE CLAPS BACK! Fires Off Sassy Response After Mindy Kaling Calls Her ‘Markle’ on Netflix Show—“You Know I’m SUSSEX Now!” Royal Drama Sparks Fan Frenzy!

Meghan Markle is opening up about the Sussex family name.
In an episode of With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix show, Meghan and her friend Mindy Kaling team up to organize a kids’ garden party with activities. The two have been “email pen pals” since Kaling appeared on Meghan’s Archetypes podcast in 2022.
On the Archetypes episode they taped together, the two bonded over both being latchkey kids, which Meghan spoke about again in her Netflix series: “I was a latchkey kid,” Meghan, 43, said, adding that she “grew up with fast food and TV tray dinners, microwavable kids’ meals.”
She added she “grew up with that and watching Jeopardy and having a lot of fast food — Taco Bell, Jack in the Box.”
Kaling, 45, replied, “People wouldn’t believe that Meghan Markle ate at Jack in the Box.”
Meghan said, “It’s so funny, too, that you keep saying Meghan Markle. You know I’m Sussex now.”
“You have kids and you go, ‘No, I share my name with my children,’ ” Meghan continued. “I didn’t know how meaningful that would be to me, but it just means so much to go, this is our family name, our little family name.”
Meghan opened up about the significance of their Sussex family name in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, saying: “I love that that is something that Archie, Lili, H and I all have together. It means a lot to me,” Meghan says.
Sharing that the Sussex name “is part of our love story,” she continues, “I think as the kids get older, they’re so excited about, ‘Oh my gosh, Mama and Papa, how did you meet?’ I think that will come with time as they get older, but for right now a huge part of our love story is that we share the name Sussex.”