Meghan Markle’s podcast is about the word ‘crazy.’ And it’s barking mad

‘Calling someone crazy or hysterical completely dismisses their experience,’ says Meghan Markle in her strangely throaty professional podcast voice. ‘It minimises what they’re feeling. And you know it doesn’t stop there. It keeps going to the point where anyone who has been labelled it enough times can be gaslit into thinking that they’re actually unwell. Or sometimes worse to the point where real issues of all kinds get ignored. Well that’s not happening today.’

Cue the intro music – ‘I am woman, I am fearless, I am sexy’ etc. – to the latest episode of Archetypes, the Duchess of Sussex’s Spotify series.

‘I feel pretty strongly about this word crazy,’ says Meghan. She does. As usual there are about nine minutes of over-edited blather and loosely connected etymological observations – the word ‘hysteria’ comes from the Greek word ‘womb’, didn’t you know? – before Meghan starts a conversation with one of her guests.