Malala Yousafzai has disclosed that her mother reprimanded Prince Harry for touching her during a photo opportunity.
The Pakistani education rights advocate, who received treatment in Birmingham following a 2012 Taliban assassination attempt, explained how her mother had physically removed Prince Harry’s hand as they posed together for a photograph.
She said, “My mum was also very strict, she wanted me to stick to the Pakistani traditional culture.
“So when I met Prince Harry we were taking a photo together and he put his arm around my shoulder and my mum goes up to him and she says, ‘Remove.’
“She just like shoves off his hand,” reports Birmingham Live.
Malala disclosed that she had attempted to blend in while attending the University of Oxford, modifying her wardrobe choices. She expressed, “I knew that if I wore my traditional Shalwar Kameez, the Pakistani traditional outfit …I would stand out…so I wanted to wear jeans and jumpers, anything that’s just basic and normal.
“So I went on Google and searched casual style 2017, and then I searched Selena Gomez casual.”
She unveiled the controversy that ensued when she was photographed rowing in skinny jeans, a bomber jacket, and her headscarf.
“Walking back from there, someone took a picture of me wearing skinny jeans, and I got this call from my parents telling me that they were really concerned because people were criticizing me for wearing skinny jeans,” she shared.
“This is not a traditional outfit…somehow, I am shaming the country. But I told my parents ‘I am not in college for some pilgrimage or some cultural representation, I’m here as a student.”
Malala still has security around her all the time, and when asked by host Graham Norton if that was permanent, she responded, “So far, yes.”
Discussing the assassination attempt, Malala stated, “My life completely changed when I was only 11 years old. Extremists took over my hometown.
“When they made the ban on girls’ education, that’s when I started doing my activism because I knew I could not have a future without an education.
“Then they attempted to kill me, I survived that. I was moved to the UK for treatment, I had my surgeries here, I went to high school here.
“I felt so lucky that I went to college and completed my degree. That is the moment I thought that I won.”
