Princess Eugenie Debuts New Podcast Featuring Guests Who Are “Helping to Combat Modern Slavery”

Princess Eugenie is following in her cousin Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s footsteps, launching a podcast she hopes will shine some light on modern slavery and those who are working tirelessly to bring it to an end.

On Wednesday, the royal announced the launch of her new podcast, Floodlight, co-hosted with her friend Julia de Boinville, with whom she also co-founded The Anti-Slavery Collective in 2017, a charity that combats modern slavery and human trafficking. Eugenie revealed in an Instagram post that starting this week she and de Boinville will release weekly episodes in which they “sit down with guests from all walks of life who are helping to combat modern slavery in a variety of ways. From lawmakers and company leaders to famous activists, survivors and journalists.”

She added, “Floodlight shows you just how prominent modern slavery is and that we can all do something about it,” announcing that the first episode is now available everywhere you listen to podcasts. The royal concluded, “We want to thank all our guests for joining us, as well as @stakpod for making this project come to life. It is available anywhere you listen to podcasts, just search Floodlight or follow the link in my bio to listen now!”

Eugenie first teased that she would be embarking on this new project back in January, sharing a photo of herself and de Boinville in a recording studio in their joint monthly newsletter, writing alongside the image, “We were so excited to begin recording our long-awaited podcast this year, due to be released in 2022 so stay tuned!” This project is a logical next step for the pair who have already been interviewing a number of these figures fighting to end modern slavery on social media. The royal has also visited safe houses and spoken out about this issue close to her heart at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

Eugenie and de Boinville first met on the bus during a school trip and, in 2012, traveled together to India where they visited the Women’s Interlink Foundation and learned of the horrors of modern slavery. “We were shocked to discover the extent to which slavery still exists,” the princess wrote in an Instagram post about that trip that she shared last October. “In fact, there are more enslaved people today than at any other point in history and, at any one time, someone is being trafficked within a mile of where you live. We often associate slavery with chains and shackles, but modern slavery is a hidden crime that is often hard to detect. We spent the next 5 years educating ourselves. We became obsessive investigators and would visit anyone who could help us expand our knowledge…We asked everyone we encountered, ‘what can two young girls like us do to help?’ Without fail, the answer was always raise awareness. So this became our mission.”

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