hen life gets tough, Meghan Markle thinks back to a piece of advice Prince Harry once shared with her. The Duchess of Sussex recalled her husband’s words on Tuesday during a special screening of Roadside Attractions’ Cookie Queens, a documentary she and the Duke of Sussex executive produced.
Following the screening, Meghan took part in a Q&A, where, according to PEOPLE, she was asked how she motivates herself when having “tough moments.”
“I think so much of it, funny enough, I was thinking about something my husband told me ages ago, because we all go through experiences and life is full of surprises,” Meghan said. “But you know, he was a helicopter pilot in the British Army for 10 years. And sometimes on really hard days, we were once he said, ‘Hey, but my love, you know, even if there’s a storm happening above the storm, the sun’s always shining.'”
© Eric Charbonneau/Roadside Attractions via Getty Images“So I think when you really zoom out and think, ‘My gosh, how many things have we gone through that have felt hard?’ And then you still get through them,” the Duchess said. “Or how many goals do you think you’re not gonna hit? And then you hit them, and you supersede them.”
The With, Love Meghan star added: “That no matter what feels insurmountable, there’s just always that sun shining above it.”
© Eric Charbonneau/Roadside Attractions via Getty ImagesMeghan’s appearance at The Grove AMC Theater on July 28 came ahead of the theatrical release of Cookie Queens, which opens in theaters on August 7. The documentary, described as a “celebration of girlhood and the complexities that come with it,” is a “coming-of-age story about the joys, pressures, and tensions woven into one of America’s most cherished rituals: Girl Scout Cookie season.”
Cookie Queens, directed by Alysa Nahmias, premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival. Meghan and Harry stepped out to support the documentary at the festival in Utah.
© Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Sundance Film FestivalMeghan, a former Girl Scout herself, previously told Variety: “What’s so fantastic about the experience of being a Girl Scout — and my mom was my troop leader as well — is I don’t think you understand just how impactful all of those tools that you’re learning are going to carry through in your life later on outside of the community building.”
“What I love about what Alysa did in bringing this film to life is it gives such an objective point of view about girlhood, humanity, but also how they’re leveraging technology, how they’re learning micro-finance, financial independence,” she continued. “All of these elements that are baked in — dare I say — to the tradition of the Girl Scouts’ cookie season.”