Being a member of a royal family is in many ways akin to being in a sorority: archaic rituals, an absurd amount of fancy dress-up occasions, traditional codes of behavior, philanthropy, living in a massive home with many roommates…but very few people have experienced both palace life and American Greek life. Most famously, Meghan Markle is one of them.

In 1999, Meghan enrolled in the prestigious Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and decided to rush. She joined Kappa Kappa Gamma, which was known for its “Midwestern blondes” who were “intelligent hot messes.”

“The thing we all have in common,” Kappa Kappa Gamma member Melania Hidalgo observed, per Andrew Morton ’s Meghan and the Unmasking of the Monarchy , “is that we’re all very driven, ambitious, and passionat

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