Meghan Markle Joins Queen's Commonwealth Trust Panel For International Women's Day

The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle will take part in a March 8th International Women’s Day panel discussion at King’s College in London hosted by the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust.

Meghan will be joined by musician Annie Lennox, founder of The Circle NGO, top model Adwoa Aboah, founder of Gurls Talk, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Chair of GIWLkings, Chrisann Jarrett, founder of Let Us Learn and Angeline Murimirwa, Executive Director of Camfed.

Kensington Palace confirmed the news on Twitter, writing that the event 'will bring together a special panel of female thought-leaders and activists to discuss a range of issues affecting women today.’

According to the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust website, the audience will include students, opinion formers and young leaders and discussion points will include, ‘The importance of International Women’s Day, and the spotlight it can bring to obstacles which still affect female empowerment across the world, including access to education and limitations within employment.’