Meghan Markle Teases Bonus Podcast Episode with 'Matriarch' Tina Knowles: 'This One Is So Special, Y’all'

Surprise! Meghan Markle's podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, hasn't wrapped its first play conscionable yet.

Lemonada Media, which produces nan Duchess of Sussex's podcast, revealed connected Thursday, May 29, that a prize section will beryllium released adjacent week.

"We had conscionable wrapped Confessions of a Female Founder and packed up nan mics — until a telephone came successful that we couldn’t ignore. On nan statement was 1 of nan astir influential and inspiring matriarchs successful civilization today. Naturally, we deed record," they shared successful a societal media station announcing nan news.

Meghan's sound besides appeared successful nan promo. She said, "Next week, we've sewage 1 much very typical question and reply for you. A prize episode. Because erstwhile a matriarch calls, and erstwhile this matriarch calls, oh, you answer."

Meghan and Lemonada kept nan guest's personality a secret, but nan 2nd astir fans heard nan iconic voice, they knew precisely who was connected nan line: Tina Knowles.

Adding to nan clues, Meghan says, “This 1 is truthful special, y’all” — a wink, perhaps, to Knowles’ Texas roots and girl Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter tour.

In a little clip from her appearance, Knowles opens up to Meghan astir why she "fights truthful hard" for her celebrated family, which, of course, includes daughters Beyoncé and Solange, arsenic good arsenic her 4 grandchildren.

"I show them each day, since they were small girls, 'You beryllium anyplace you take to be,' " she shared of her proposal seemingly to her daughters, who some recovered fame early successful life and person flourished into massively successful artists, arsenic good arsenic mothers successful their ain right.

It's nary correction that nan Duchess of Sussex introduces Knowles arsenic an iconic "matriarch." It's nan title of nan 71-year-old manner designer's recent memoir, which tells her life communicative successful her ain words.

Knowles opened up to PEOPLE astir penning nan book past month, admitting she was initially hesitant "because I thought [people] only want to cognize each my kids’ business. They’re not going to beryllium willing successful me.”

“I’ve lived this unthinkable life," she continued, "and you really don’t recognize it until you commencement penning everything down.” 

Originally, nan book was going to attraction much connected Knowles' life successful nan spotlight, from designing costumes for Destiny's Child to helping shepherd her children done nan intermezo industry. But done her imaginative process, a deeper, much elaborate communicative began to return shape.

"When I started telling nan communicative and listening backmost to what I had recorded, I was like, it's clip to do a memoir, because I want to time off that bequest for my kids," she shared. "But I besides want to promote young group and older group to spell and grounds their parents and get those stories."

Meghan's relationship pinch Knowles and her celebrated family goes backmost galore years.

The Duchess and Beyoncé person often expressed their communal admiration for 1 another, gathering astatine nan Lion King premiere successful July 2019, wherever nan euphony icon dubbed Meghan "my princess."

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Since then, they've shared parenting tips, day wishes and encouraging messages. Beyoncé moreover messaged Meghan to cheque in aft she and hubby Prince Harry sat down for their life-changing interview pinch Oprah Winfrey successful March 2021.

"I still can't judge she knows who I am," Meghan marveled connected nan couple's Netflix series, Harry & Meghan.

The emotion continues to this day. Harry and Meghan precocious near their kids – Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 3 – astatine location to walk a "date night" retired attending Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter circuit astatine SoFi Stadium successful Los Angeles.

Meghan shared tiny PDA pics from their nighttime retired connected Instagram, including her borrowing a brimmed chapeau from her hubby and nan brace cozied up together for nan epic spectacle of a show.

"About past night…." Meghan captioned her pics. "Thank you @beyonce and squad for an astonishing performance (and a very nosy day night)! All love."