George Floyd’s Life Mattered, Says Duchess Of Sussex, Meghan Markle

Prince Harry’s wife and the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle has spoken on the murder  of George Floyd , saying the lives of George Floyd and other black people that have been killed by the police in the US mattered.

Meghan spoke on Wednesday while giving an address to graduating pupils at her old school, Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles.

The 38-year-old former actress, who attended the school from the age of 11 to 18, said: ‘George Floyd’s life mattered and Breonna Taylor’s life mattered and Philando Castile’s life mattered and Tamir Rice’s life mattered’.

According to mailonline.com, Meghan referred to Los Angeles as the family’s ‘home town’ after moving there with husband Prince Harry, and their son Archie.

Speaking about her decision to speak out about Floyd, she said: ‘I wasn’t sure what I could say to you. I wanted to say the right thing and I was really nervous that it would get picked apart. And I realised the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing’.

Meghan made the six-minute virtual speech yesterday before the video was released to black women’s lifestyle magazine Essence , which published it on its website today saying, ‘courtesy of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’