Meghan Markle has made it clear that she is putting her name behind the push for paid family leave in the United States, and now she is going above and beyond for other fighters. This week, the Duchess presented employees of PL+US, a campaign group organizing to adopt family leave by 2022, with a $25 voucher to spend at Starbucks. The voucher was a thank you to them for working overtime to ensure that paid family leave is adopted in the next Congressional spending bill that is struggling to pass both houses of Congress. [Just last week, the Duchess wrote an impassioned open letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about why this issue is so important to her and how it will help American parents. The letter angered some politicians, especially Republicans, who thought the duchess should stay out of politics. However, social media users noted that family leave was never considered a partisan issue until Democrats began considering a strong family leave deal in their upcoming spending package. In particular, Markle wrote, the paid family flag was raised after the pandemic exposed "longstanding fault lines" in the way parents find affordable child care, job security, and health care.

Neil Sroka, communications director for PL+US, called Meghan's donation of Starbucks gift cards "incredibly classy and ...... necessary," he tweeted. Princess Meghan has expressed support for paid leave, but was silent on the coffee gift to PL+US employees. The news was shared only by Sroka's tweet; news about the gift does not appear anywhere on Archewell's site.

In a way, this sweet gesture shows how personally she is engaged in this fight.