Malala Yousafzai’s mother disapproved of Prince Harry and Sir David Beckham.
Malala Yousafzai and Sir David Beckham in 2022
Toor Pekai Yousafzai “shoved” the 41-year-old royal’s hand off her 28-year-old daughter’s shoulder after they posed for a photograph collectively at an occasion.
Throughout an look on The Graham Norton Present on Friday (31.10.25), Malala – a feminine schooling activist – revealed: “After I met Prince Harry and he put his arm very respectfully round my shoulder for {a photograph}, my mom goes after him and shoves his hand away!”
On the 2013 Delight of Britain Awards, held in London, England, former skilled footballer Sir David Beckham, 50, introduced the Teenager of Braveness Award to then-17-year-old Malala.
In 2012, the Taliban shot her within the head and neck in an assassination try on her means house from faculty as a result of the Afghan political and militant motion banned girls from getting an schooling.
Malala posed with David after he handed her the accolade to honour her bravery and heroism in campaigning for ladies’s schooling within the area.
Nonetheless, her mother and pop, Ziauddin Yousafzai, went loopy when she posed with the previous Manchester United midfielder due to the “disapproval of their conservative kin”.
Nonetheless, Malala fired again to her mother and father, saying: “Firstly, I’m 17 and secondly, that’s David Beckham!”
Malala additionally shared that her mother and father didn’t approve of the garments she wore to college.
She mentioned: “The garments I wore at college upset them. They have been very strict and significantly didn’t like my skinny denims.”
Malala made historical past in 2014 on the age of 17 by being the youngest laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize for preventing the suppression of youngsters and advocating for youngsters’s proper to schooling.
And her life’s “private reflections” are documented in Malala’s new memoir Discovering My Means.
She mentioned: “It’s a coming-of-age story. Probably the most private reflections I’ve shared from once I was a lonely scholar in highschool to a reckless faculty scholar, and navigating my means as a younger lady.
“It’s my private experiences about belonging, friendships, and psychological well being. My hope is that when somebody reads the e book, the message is that they aren’t alone.”
Malala attended secondary faculty at Edgbaston Excessive Faculty in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, from 2013 to 2017.
And he or she then secured a spot at Girl Margaret Corridor, Oxford, England, to check for a Bachelor of Arts diploma in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).
After three years, she graduated in 2020.
Requested about learning within the UK, Malala mentioned: “I felt so fortunate that I went to varsity and accomplished my diploma, and that was the second I felt I had gained. As a result of the folks that attempted to silence me and cease me from studying failed, and I accomplished my schooling. I’ve that very same dream for all girls.”
The Graham Norton Present airs on BBC One and iPlayer on Friday October 24 at 10.40pm.
