Our Duchess of Sussex is named one of UK's 'most influential' women

Her Royal Highness appears alongside Harry Potter author JK Rowling and singer Dua Lipa in the leading fashion magazine’s inaugural guide to Britain’s 25 most influential and aspirational female figures.

Dubbed Vogue 25, the list comprises what the fashion publication says is “an extraordinary cast of leaders defining – and redefining – the way we live now”.

Following her wedding to Prince Harry last month, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is heralded by Vogue as a person who “captured the public imagination like no other this year”.

The magazine says that Meghan, “one of the most recognisable women in the world”, has an influence that “stretches far beyond the ceaseless coverage of her style – as a bi-racial campaigning feminist from America, she is helping to forge a new 21st century identity for the monarchy”.

The former Suits actor’s official profile on the British monarchy website highlights her quote from the 2015 United Nations conference in New York.

She said: “I am proud to be a woman and a feminist.”

The website says that from a young age, the duchess has had “a keen awareness of social issues and actively participated in charitable work.

Aged 11 she successfully campaigned for a company to alter a television advert that had used sexist language to sell washing-up liquid.

Among her list of other achievements listed are her charitable work as a UN advocate for women’s political participation and leadership in 2015 and in the

following year she was made global ambassador for the charity World Vision.

Her inclusion in the list comes just weeks after her wedding brought in a combined audience of 17.6 million on BBC and ITV .

The list also includes Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, fashion designer Stella McCartney, Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner and model Adwoa Aboah.

The feature appears in the July issue of Vogue, which will be on sale on Friday, June 8.