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Meghan Markle laughs about life before joining Royal Family with Ellen DeGeneres months after fury over Oprah chat
MEGHAN Markle was a barrel of laughs today as she appeared on a US talk show.
The Duchess of Sussex joked candidly about her life before joining the Royal Family while speaking to Ellen DeGeneres on a clip for the Ellen Show.
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The surprise appearance, which comes almost a year after her bombshell Oprah interview, saw Meghan spill the beans on her acting days before meeting Prince Harry.
The former Suits star beamed as she recalled how she would go to auditions on the same Warner Bros. lot as Ellen's set.
And the animated duchess couldn't help but giggle over how she used to climb through the boot of her old banger to get to the front - because you couldn't access it from the driver's door.
She told Ellen: “I would park at Gate 3 and scoot on over, and what was so nice was that the security guards here would always say, ‘Break a leg, we hope you get it!’ So the drive in today was very different."
Asked if the security guards recognised her, the mum-of-two replied: “I think they probably said it to everybody. That’s how nice they were.”
The clip appears a far cry from the tone struck in Meghan and Harry's explosive Oprah interview back in March, in which the couple discussed their struggles as working royals.
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Ellen went on to point out that Meghan drove to auditions in a “very special car”, to which the duchess instantly laughed.
And telling how her Ford Explorer Sport "had a life of its own", she laughed: "At a certain point the key stopped working on the driver’s side, so you couldn’t get yourself in through the door.
“After auditions I would park at the back of the parking lot and I would open the trunk and climb in, then pull it shut behind me and crawl over all my seats to get out. That’s how I would come to and fro."
The sit down chat marks Meghan's first daytime talk show appearance since she married Prince Harry and joined the Royal Family.
It comes after she and Harry rocked the Firm with their explosive Oprah Winfrey interview and aired their struggles as working royals on TV.
Meghan told how she felt suicidal in her role and said a senior royal had questioned how dark her unborn son's skin would be.
The pair stepped back from their royal duties last year and set up their new lives in the US.
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It's now believed they will spend Christmas at their £11million mansion in California this year - suggesting they won't spend it with the Queen.
An insider told Page Six: "There’s a lot that goes into the logistics and the planning of the family Christmas, so of course, staff know that Harry and Meghan are not coming.
"If they were, they would have communicated it to their family by now.
"But this is Her Majesty’s first Christmas without her husband, so one would have hoped they would want to be with her."
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