All the best times Meghan Markle totally tore up the royal rulebook

The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, is officially 39 today. While the royal may be taking a step back from the limelight these days, a birthday sounds to us like the perfect excuse to celebrate Meg and all the fabulous times she’s broken with tradition to make a statement—whether as small as an unconventional nail polish shade or as big as calling out British colonialism.From flying in the face of royal fashion convention, to giving up royal privileges, here are all the times Meghan did something inspiring, out of the box, or just plain unexpected…[gallery ids="/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/celebrity/2020/08/04/vanity-fair.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/celebrity/2020/08/04/2.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/celebrity/2020/08/04/3.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/celebrity/2020/08/04/4.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/celebrity/2020/08/04/5.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/celebrity/2020/08/04/6.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/celebrity/2020/08/04/7.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/celebrity/2020/08/04/8.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/celebrity/2020/08/04/9.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/celebrity/2020/08/04/10.jpg,/content/dam/bellmedia/more-etalk-ca/images/celebrity/2020/08/04/11.jpg"][video_embed id='1918013']RELATED: Harry and Meghan complete last public duty at Commonwealth Day service [/video_embed]