The Duchess of Sussex candidly opened up about a difficult parenting moment that left her celeb pal moved. The admission came on Meghan’s Netflix show, which was hit with mixed reviews
Meghan Markle has admitted she was “not well” after spending a difficult amount of time away from her children Archie and Lilibet.
The heartfelt revelation came during the second series of the Duchess’ Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, which premiered earlier this year.
Although Meghan didn’t specify when this separation occurred, it’s believed to be during the period following Queen Elizabeth death in 2022 when the Sussexes unexpectedly stayed in the UK.
The series, which was hit with mixed reviews, featured a star-studded line-up including Chrissy Teigen, fashion guru Tan France, and renowned chefs David Chang, Samin Nosrat, Christina Tosi and Clare Smyth.
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During one candid moment, Meghan opened up about the struggles she faced during her time away from her children.
In conversation with Queer Eye’s Tan France, who shared his own heartache at being away from his two young kids, Meghan empathised: “Oh I know. The longest I went without being around our kids was almost three weeks,” the Express reports. “I was,” she paused, “…not well.”
Prince Harry had previously touched upon these “difficult days” in his memoir Spare, recounting the painful separation from their children after the Queen’s passing.
He wrote about how they were apart from Archie and Lilibet “longer than we’d ever been”, and upon reuniting in California, they spent “days and days hugging the children, unable to let them out of our sight”.
The Sussexes left their children in the care of Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, in LA. They travelled to Manchester for a One World Summit on 5 September 2022, before heading to Dusseldorf for an Invictus event and then returning to London.
Their stay was extended when Harry’s beloved grandmother sadly passed away on 8 September. Despite the ongoing rift between the brothers, they made several public appearances together, including greeting mourners with Prince William and the Princess at Windsor, and attending the funeral and committal service on 19 September.
While Meghan has not returned to the UK since the Queen’s passing, Harry has made several solo visits to his home country.
It comes as Meghan compared herself to the former US president and former First Lady, Barack and Michelle Obama at an event this week. Speaking at Fortune’s annual Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington DC, she discussed her and Harry’s brand new deal with Netflix.
She told the audience: “My husband and I were in an overall deal with Netflix, and then not just similar to Higher Ground in the Obamas’ deal, once that had come to its term, the extension of it, which was such an incredible sign of the strength of our partnership, was now being in a first look deal.
“Which is also exciting, because it gives us flexibility to go to our partners first, and then at the same time, to be able to shop content that might not be the right fit for Netflix, but has a home somewhere else.”