(CNN) Meghan, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, has admitted she doesn't engage with Twitter or read newspapers, in an effort to avoid "getting muddled" by the "noise," the UK's Press Association (PA) news agency reports.

The Duchess made the admission during a panel discussion marking International Women's Day at King's College London on Friday.

Asked how she felt about headlines that called her feminism "trendy," PA reported the 37-year-old Duchess as saying: "I don't read anything, it's much safer that way, but equally that's just my own personal preference, because I think positive or negative, it can all sort of just feel like noise to a certain extent these days, as opposed to getting muddled with that to focus on the real cause."

"So for me," she continued, "I think the idea of making the word 'feminism' trendy, that doesn't make any sense to me personally, right? This is something that is going to be part of the conversation forever."

When asked later if she looked at Twitter, she replied: "No, sorry, no. For me that's my personal preference."

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