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  • Jeremy Clarkson sorry for Meghan comments following backlash – including from his daughter

    In an article for The Sun, the former Top Gear host spoke about the Duchess of Sussex, which social media users called “entirely unacceptable”.

    The administration of US President Joe Biden has stated that Washington “looks forward to working closely” on shared objectives with newly appointed Peruvian President Dina Boluarte after top US diplomat Antony Blinken spoke on the phone with the troubled South American leader.

    The talks between Blinken and Boluarte were confirmed by the US Department of State on Sunday, as unrest in Peru persists in the wake of President Pedro Castillo’s ouster earlier this month. Two days prior, the call had occurred.

    “Secretary Blinken encouraged Peru’s institutions and civil authorities to redouble their efforts to make needed reforms and safeguard democratic stability,” the State Department said in a statement.

    Boluarte was sworn in by Peru’s Congress to replace Castillo on December 7 after lawmakers ousted the former president, who had announced plans to “temporarily” dissolve Congress and rule by decree in what he said was an effort to “re-establish the rule of law and democracy”.

    Boluarte previously served as vice president to Castillo, who has been arrested on charges of rebellion and conspiracy after his removal. On Thursday, a Peruvian court extended the left-wing leader’s pre-trial detention to 18 months.

    Castillo had faced multiple crises during his short tenure as president. Sworn in July 2021, the teacher and union leader from rural Peru faced corruption allegations, a grim approval rating, and a stillborn legislative agenda thwarted by an opposition-dominated Congress.

    Now Boluarte is facing a crisis of her own as demonstrators demand her resignation.

    Blinken’s call with Boluarte came amid political chaos and ongoing anti-government protests calling for early elections and Castillo’s release.

    “The United States looks forward to working closely with President Boluarte on shared goals and values related to democracy, human rights, security, anti-corruption, and economic prosperity,” the State Department said.

    “Secretary Blinken stressed the need for all Peruvian actors to engage in constructive dialogue to ease political divisions and focus on reconciliation.”

    In a national address on Saturday, Boluarte called on Congress to authorise early elections “in line” with the demands of the people of Peru.

    Boluarte’s administration had declared a nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday, suspending freedom of movement and assembly in a bid to quell the unrest, which has left several people dead.

    Earlier this week, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador slammed the measure, calling for respect for human rights and civil liberties in Peru.

    “Force must not be used, the people must not be repressed and freedoms must be guaranteed,” Lopez Obrador said during a news conference.

    Source: SkyNews.com 

     

     

  • ‘I still can’t believe she knows who I am’ – Meghan Markle reacts to Beyoncé’s text after the Oprah Winfrey interview

    “I still can’t believe she knows who I am,” the Duchess of Sussex said after Beyoncé surprised her with a text.

    Beyoncé was there for Meghan Markle.

     

    In volume two of Harry & Meghan, which hit Netflix Thursday, the Duchess of Sussex, 41, was touched when the music superstar, 41, reached out to her the day after her and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey aired in March 2021.

    In episode six, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex worked side by side in their sunny home office in Montecito, California, when Meghan said, “Beyoncé just texted” as Prince Harry, 38, theatrically gasped.

    “Just checking in,” Meghan said with a smile of the message. “I still can’t believe she knows who I am!”

    “Go and call her,” Harry suggested. “No, it’s okay,” his wife replied. “She said she wants me to feel safe and protected. She admires and respects my bravery and vulnerability and thinks I was selected to break generational curses that need to be healed.”

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    “That’s well said,” Prince Harry replied, as the camera panned away.

    During the wide-ranging conversation with Oprah, which aired on CBS, the California couple talked about losing police protection, escalating strain with the rest of the royal family, and the sex of their baby on the way (daughter Lilibet would be born that June). In perhaps the most shocking moments of the interview, Meghan revealed that she experienced suicidal thoughts and that within the royal family, there were “concerns and conversations about how dark [their child’s] skin might be when he’s born.”

    Almost immediately after Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special aired, the 28-time Grammy winner posted a tribute to the Duchess of Sussex on her website.

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    “Thank you Meghan for your courage and leadership,” Beyoncé wrote alongside a photo of the pair at the U.K. premiere for The Lion King almost two years before. “We are all strengthened and inspired by you.”

    Meghan and Beyoncé seemed to hit it off when they met in July 2019 at the London movie premiere for the live-action revamp of The Lion King, in which the “Single Ladies” singer voiced Nala. “My princess,” Beyoncé was spotted saying, as she leaned in for a hug with Meghan.

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    Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and Beyonce. NIKLAS HALLE’N/AFP/GETTY

    Observers said that there was a “familiarity” between the two women, so much that many had a hard time believing this was their first time meeting. Their husbands Prince Harry and JAY-Z soon joined the conversation, where the talk quickly turned to their children.

    “The best advice I can give you, always find some time for yourself,” JAY-Z, 53, told the Sussexes, who had recently welcomed son Archie Harrison, now 3 ½.

    Volumes one and two Harry & Meghan are now streaming on Netflix.

    Source: People.com 

  • The reason Meghan Markle wore Princess Diana’s aquamarine ring to Ripple of Hope Gala

    At Tuesday night’s Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Gala, Meghan Markle was the center of attention. The Duchess of Sussex arrived with Princess Diana‘s exquisite aquamarine ring and a white off-the-shoulder Louis Vuitton gown.

    It had been four years since Markle, 41, reached for the special piece; she memorably debuted it as her “something blue” at her wedding reception with Prince Harry in 2018, and later wore it during the pair’s royal tour of Tonga that same year.

    And this week, the duchess may have gravitated toward the bauble for more than just a pop of color.

     

    “It’s interesting to know that the aquamarine’s light blue color symbolizes feelings of sympathy, trust and friendship – particularly ahead of the couple’s upcoming Netflix docuseries,” Maxwell Stone of UK jeweler Steven Stone said in a statement shared with Page Six Style.

    Adding that the ring — which features an emerald-cut aquamarine flanked by small solitaire diamonds — “carries a great deal of sentiment” for the royals, Stone explained, “The eye-catching aquamarine was given to Princess Diana by her friend, Lucia Flecha de Lima, and created into a ring by Asprey in 1996.”

    And while the jeweler described the stunning sparkler as “no doubt priceless,” he said that an aquamarine ring of equivalent size would be worth “around $98,000.”

    he late Princess of Wales first wore the ring — whose center aquamarine is said to weigh in at a whopping 13 carats — during her 1996 tour of Australia. Some have speculated the spectacular stone was intended to stand in for her famous sapphire engagement ring from Prince Charles, following the couple’s highly publicized divorce.

    Sadly, Diana only wore it on two occasions before her tragic death in 1997, according to Stone.

    Diana, Princess Of Wales In Sydney, Australia

    In addition to sympathy, trust and friendship, aquamarines are also associated with “tranquility, serenity, clarity, and harmony,” per the jeweler, along with “transformation and rebirth” and “purity, loyalty, hope and truth.”

    That made it a fitting choice for the duchess ahead of the premiere of the Sussexes’ much-anticipated Netflix docuseries, “Harry & Meghan,” the first three episodes of which drop Thursday, Dec. 8. (The following three will stream on Dec. 15.)

  • Meghan Markle reportedly has had a ‘dramatic change of heart’ and wants to keep her royal titles now

    Meghan Markle has had a “dramatic change of heart regarding titles,” a royal expert has claimed, which goes against what she said in her bombshell Oprah interview back in March 2021, whereby she said that titles weren’t important to her.

    Meghan Markle wants to keep royal title after realizing how beneficial it can be

    Royal commentator Neil Sean told The Daily Express that the Duchess of Sussex, 41, had the alleged change of heart after speaking with Prince Harry’s cousins, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, as they helped her realize just how important and beneficial having those titles can be. And she reportedly wants to do whatever it takes to hang on to her Duchess of Sussex title to ensure that her and Prince Harry’s children – three-year-old son Archie and one-year-old daughter Lilibet – are offered titles of their own.

    Harry and Meghan are very, very keen to cling onto those royal titles. After much deliberation, Meghan decided that the titles would be a good thing, not just for her but for both her children too,” Sean said.

    “Meghan has become very friendly with senior members of the monarchy, predominantly Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice. After this, Meghan realized how useful a title can be, particularly when you want to move in the correct circles,” he added, in reference to Prince Andrew, the Duke of York and Fergie, the Duchess of York’s daughters. “That is the reason why they want to clutch hold of titles. It’s really down to the fact that after befriending Beatrice and Eugenie, she saw how useful those titles are to them. Their father, Prince Andrew, had to push very hard to make sure his children got those titles.”

    f you cast your minds back to the infamous Oprah Winfrey interview, Meghan said: “All the grandeur surrounding this stuff is an attachment I don’t personally have. I’ve been a waitress, an actress, a princess, a Duchess – I’ve always still just been Meghan, right? I’ve been clear on who I am, independent of all that stuff, and the most important title I’ll ever have is mom. I know that.”

    However, she and Prince Harry have since made it very clear how important a royal title would be for their children, especially because of the security and protection that comes along with it. So we never really believed that Meghan would snub another royal title if it was given to her or her children!

    Prince Harry And Meghan’s Children’s Titles

    The future of Prince Harry and Meghan’s children’s titles is currently up in the air, as many sources are hinting that King Charles III is waiting for Prince Harry’s bombshell memoir to be published in January, 2023 to make his decision about his grandchildren’s titles, depending on how much he trashes the royal family.

    “Charles has made various threats to Meghan and Harry and warned them that if they go ahead, they will find themselves ostracized in a way they cannot believe. And so they are worried,” royal author Tom Bower told OK, in reference to their Netflix docu-series and Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare. “I do not think their children will get titles if they go ahead and slander the royal family. But they have also got to consider their own titles, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, could be taken away by Charles if they misbehave,” he added.

    Source: people.com 

     

  • Meghan Markle shares the advice she received before her royal wedding from a ‘very Iinfluential’ woman

    In the latest episode of her Archetypes podcast, the Duchess of Sussex welcomed Jameela Jamil, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Ilana Glazer to talk about why activism from women often draws criticism.

    Meghan Markle is sharing the message she received from a “very, very influential and inspiring woman” ahead of her royal wedding to Prince Harry.

    On a new episode of her Archetypes podcast, released via Spotify on Tuesday, the Duchess of Sussex welcomed Jameela Jamil, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Ilana Glazer to talk about why activism from women often draws criticism. To close out the episode, Meghan recalled a piece of advice she received “just a few days” before her May 2018 nuptials from “a very, very influential and inspiring woman, who for her own privacy I won’t share who it was with you.”

    “She said to me, I know that your life is changing, but please don’t give up your activism. Don’t give up because it means so much to women and girls,” Meghan, 41, said.

    “And I kept doing the work for women and girls because it matters, yes. But also because she encouraged me to do so,” she said. “And the collective voice of all of us telling each other that matters is perhaps the point. There’s safety in numbers. But there’s also strength in numbers.”

    Meghan’s fight for women started at a young age, notably when she called out a Procter & Gamble commercial that advertised its Ivory dishwashing soap solely to women. “I don’t think it’s right for kids to grow up thinking these things, that just mom does everything,” the then 11-year-old Meghan said during an interview with Nick News.

    Just a few months ahead of her wedding to Prince Harry, she used her platform to encourage people to listen to women at an event alongside Prince William and Kate Middleton.

    “I hear a lot of people speaking about girls’ empowerment and women’s empowerment — you will hear people saying they are helping women find their voices,” she said in 2018 at the first annual Royal Foundation Forum. “I fundamentally disagree with that because women don’t need to find their voices, they need to be empowered to use it and people need to be urged to listen.”

    Supporting women remained a key cause in Meghan’s charity work after becoming a member of the British royal family, including becoming a patron of Smart Works, an organization that helps unemployed and vulnerable women regain the confidence they need to succeed at job interviews and return to work.

    After Meghan and Prince Harry stepped back as senior members of the royal family and relocated to her home state of California in 2020, the Duchess of Sussex has continued to advocate for women, from wearing a shirt with the words “Women, Life, Freedom” written in Farsi to call attention to the ongoing protests in Iran at the Women@Spotify event in October to a teenage girl with a virtual mentoring session in March 2021.

    Source: People.com 

     

  • ’43 percent Nigerian’: Meghan Markle discovers after genealogy test

    In the latest episode of her bombshell podcast, Archetypes, the Duchess of Sussex discusses her genetic heritage and how she wants to delve deeper into her roots.

    Meghan Markle revealed details about her genetic heritage in the latest episode of her bombshell podcast, Archetypes.

    Unpicking the “Angry Black Woman” stereotype in a thought-provoking discussion with Nigerian American actress and comedian Issa Rae, writer Ziwe Fumudoh and professor Emily Bernards, The Duchess of Sussex told listeners that she took a genealogy test which revealed that she is 43% Nigerian.

    “I just had my genealogy done a couple of years ago,” Meghan explains, as her guests eagerly ask her to share what the results entailed.

    The Duchess then proudly says “I’m 43% Nigerian” to the shock of Ziwe, who shouts “No way!”.

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    Meghan says she wants to explore her heritage further after getting the results

    Meghan can be heard giggling over her guest’s excitement, as she opens up about her roots during the major podcast moment.

    “Are you serious? This is huge. Igbo, Yoruba, do we know?” the writer excitedly probes, desperate to know more about Meghan’s findings.

    The Duchess of Sussex then tells her listeners: “I’m going to start to dig deeper into all of this because anyone that I’ve told, especially Nigerian women, are just like, what?”

    After absorbing the bombshell revelation, Nigerian American Ziwe continues to joke that the Duchess looks like ‘her aunt Ouzo’ in a heart-warming clip between the pair.

    A strong advocate for fighting against racism and prejudice, this is the first time that Meghan has opened up about her ancestral background on the public stage.

    In this week’s episode, the Duchess of Sussex also opens up about the stereotypes of Black female roles in TV as she draws on her experience as a former actress.

    The revelation comes after the Duchess’s explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, where she and Prince Harry alleged that a member of the royal family made racist remarks about their son Archie’s skin colour when they were working royals.

    Meghan and Harry signed a lucrative deal with the audio streaming giant Spotify to host and produce podcasts, estimated to be worth around £18 million, in late 2020.

    Archetypes were launched with the aim of investigating “labels that try to hold women back” through conversations between Meghan and historians, experts and women who have experienced being typecast.

    In last week’s episode, she chatted to Paris Hilton about the stereotype of the “bimbo” and revealed that she felt “objectified” during her stint as a briefcase girl on Deal or No Deal.

     

     

     

     

  • Meghan interview: We upset Royal dynamic just by existing, says Duchess of Sussex

    The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markel, says she upset the “dynamic of the hierarchy” of the Royal Family “just by existing.”

    In an interview with US magazine The Cut, Meghan, 41, talks about her life when she was a royal and why she and the Duke of Sussex moved to the US.

    Talking about her exit from the Royal Family the duchess said it “takes a lot of effort to forgive”.

    She also spoke about Prince Harry’s relationship with his father, the Prince of Wales.

    Asked by journalist Alison P Davis about the impact of her privacy case against the Mail on Sunday, Meghan said: “Harry said to me, ‘I lost my dad in this process.’

    “It doesn’t have to be the same for them as it was for me, but that’s his decision.”

    A spokeswoman for the duchess later told BBC News that Meghan was referring to her own father, from whom she is estranged, and was saying she hoped the same would not happen to her husband.

    A source close to Prince Charles told the PA news agency he would be saddened if Prince Harry felt their relationship was lost, adding: “The Prince of Wales loves both his sons”.

    The 37-year-old prince has previously said his father “stopped taking my calls” after the couple stepped back as senior working royals in 2020.

    Under the arrangement, the couple gave up their Royal Highness titles, and became able to work to become financially independent. Harry retained the title of prince through birth.

    Prior to this, the Sussexes reportedly set out a vision for continuing to be working royals in the Commonwealth and to earn their own money, in the hope this would reduce “the noise” about them.

    Meghan told The Cut: “That, for whatever reason, is not something that we were allowed to do, even though several other members of the family do that exact thing.”

    After announcing they would step back from royal duties, Prince Harry and Meghan initially moved to Canada in January 2020.

    But, after Canada said it would stop providing security for the family, the family moved to California, where they lived in a home provided by media mogul Tyler Perry before buying their own property in Montecito.

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    Analysis box by Sean Coughlan, royal correspondent

    Meghan is media dynamite, so a fairly gentle interview, with some open-to-interpretation comments, has blasted its way on to the front pages.

    For her fans, it was another slice of the unfair, crabby-minded pressures of royal life that forced Meghan and Harry to move to California.

    For her critics, it was more deluded self-promotion, seizing on quotes such as Meghan being told that her marriage to Harry was greeted in South Africa with rejoicing the same as “when Mandela was freed from prison”.

    The article describes them living in the “home equivalent of billionaires dressing down in denim” and their complaints might grate with families worried sick about paying energy bills.

    But the interview raised some of the contradictions facing Harry and Meghan.

    They wanted to get away from the suffocation of royal life, but their royal links are their most bankable assets.

    It’s like old rockers not wanting to talk about their early records, when that’s the only reason people are interested.

    They also wanted to escape media intrusion and they have in effect become part of the media, with deals with Spotify and Netflix.

    And Harry voiced the perennial royal dilemma: “If you do something, they criticise you. If you don’t do anything, they criticise you anyway.”

    Davis, a features writer who has previously interviewed celebrities such as Jada Pinkett Smith and Lena Dunham, asked Meghan if she thought there was room for forgiveness between her and her royal in-laws and her own family.

    The duchess responded: “I think forgiveness is really important. It takes a lot more energy to not forgive.

    “But it takes a lot of effort to forgive. I’ve really made an active effort, especially knowing that I can say anything.”

    The Cut interview was part of a promotion effort for the duchess’s Spotify podcast, Archetypes, which launched last week.

    The series promises to “investigate, dissect and subvert the labels that try to hold women back”, with tennis legend Serena Williams discussing ambition on the first episode, while pop star Mariah Carey features in the second installment, released on Tuesday.

    In Carey’s episode the duchess says there was more focus on her race once she started dating her husband.

    “Then I started to understand what it was like to be treated like a black woman, because up until then I had been treated like a mixed woman and things really shifted,” she said.

    The Sussexes, who also have a one-year-old daughter, Lilibet, have signed deals with Spotify and Netflix since leaving the UK.

    Prince Harry told Davis he did not believe some members of the Royal Family could live and work together as closely as he and his wife do.

    The article described the Sussexes running their company Archewell while sitting at a single desk in a shared home office.

    “Most people that I know and many of my family, they aren’t able to work and live together,” Prince Harry said.

    “It’s actually really weird because it’d seem like a lot of pressure. But it just feels natural and normal.”

    Both Harry and Meghan have had legal battles with parts of the British media and the duchess told Davis she would not have been able to pick Archie up from school in the UK “without it being a royal photo call with a press pen of 40 people snapping pictures”.

    “Sorry, I have a problem with that. That doesn’t make me obsessed with privacy. That makes me a strong and good parent protecting my child,” she said.

    Several royal correspondents have taken to social media to say this would not be the case.

    Meghan on the cover of The Cut magazine
    Image source, Campbell Addy for The Cut Image caption, The 6,450-word interview appears in US magazine The Cut, part of New York magazine

    During the interview Davis talks about accompanying Meghan to collect Archie from pre-school, with the three-year-old wanting to roll down the car window as they pass a favourite bush, while munching on a quesadilla.

    There are other insights into the duke and duchess’s lives in California in the course of the article, with the young family dancing around to Prince Harry’s beat-boxing – while Lilibet watches on from her nanny’s arms – and Archie calling his parents “Momma” and “Papa.”

    Source: BBC

  • Meghan interview: It takes effort to forgive, says Duchess of Sussex

    The Duchess of Sussex has spoken of the importance of forgiveness in a wide-ranging interview with a US magazine.

    Meghan, 41, told The Cut “it takes a lot of effort to forgive” when asked about her relationship with the Royal Family, and her own relatives.

    “I’ve really made an active effort, especially knowing I can say anything,” she said.

    She also spoke about the Duke of Sussex’s relationship with his father, the Prince of Wales.

    Asked by journalist Alison P Davis about the impact of her privacy case against the Mail on Sunday, Meghan said: “Harry said to me, ‘I lost my dad in this process.’

    “It doesn’t have to be the same for them as it was for me, but that’s his decision.”

    A spokeswoman for the duchess later told BBC News that Meghan was referring to her own father, from whom she is estranged, and was saying she hoped the same would not happen to her husband.

    A source close to Prince Charles told the PA news agency he would be saddened if Harry felt their relationship was lost, adding: “The Prince of Wales loves both his sons”.

    Davis, a features writer who has previously interviewed celebrities such as Jada Pinkett Smith and Lena Dunham, asked Meghan if she thought there was room for forgiveness between her and her royal in-laws and her own family.

    The duchess responded: “I think forgiveness is really important. It takes a lot more energy to not forgive.

    “But it takes a lot of effort to forgive. I’ve really made an active effort, especially knowing that I can say anything.”

    In the 6,450-word interview, Meghan also:

    Prince Harry told Davis he did not believe some members of the Royal Family could live and work together as closely as he and his wife do.

    The article described the Sussexes running their company Archewell while sitting at a single desk in a shared home office.

    “Most people that I know and many of my family, they aren’t able to work and live together,” Prince Harry said.

    “It’s actually really weird because it’d seem like a lot of pressure. But it just feels natural and normal.”

    The 6,450-word interview appears in US magazine The Cut, part of New York magazine.

    Prince Harry, 37, has previously said his father, Prince Charles, “stopped taking my calls” after the couple stepped back as senior working royals in 2020.

    Under the arrangement, the couple gave up their Royal Highness titles, and became able to work to become financially independent. Harry retained the title of prince through birth.

    Prior to stepping back, the Sussexes reportedly set out a vision for continuing to be working royals in the Commonwealth.

    Meghan told The Cut she believed this proposal was not “reinventing the wheel”.

    She added: “That, for whatever reason, is not something that we were allowed to do, even though several other members of the family do that exact thing.”

    The Sussexes, who now live in Montecito, California, and also have a one-year-old daughter, Lilibet, have signed deals with media brands Spotify and Netflix since leaving the UK.

    The Cut interview was part of a promotion effort for the duchess’ Spotify podcast, Archetypes, which launched last week.

    Source: BBC

  • Meghan Markle says listeners can expect ‘the Real Me’ on new podcast: ‘I’m just excited to be myself’

    The Duchess of Sussex released the first episode of Archetypes, featuring guest Serena Williams.

    Meet Meghan Markle!

    In a promo for her new Spotify podcast Archetypes, which debuted on the platform Tuesday, the Duchess of Sussex shared what her listeners will hear.

    Sitting on a couch in front of a microphone, Meghan says, “People should expect the real me in this, and probably the me that they’ve never gotten to know — certainly not in the past few years, where everything is through the lens of the media as opposed to, ‘Hey, it’s me.’ “

    “I’m just excited to be myself and talk and be unfiltered and…yeah, it’s fun,” she adds.

    Meghan, 41, spoke with longtime friend and longtime pal and tennis champion Serena Williams for the podcast’s first episode, tackling the double standard for men and women when it comes to ambition.

    “I loved talking about so many important topics with my dear friend Meghan as her first guest on #archetypes for @spotify!” Serena, 40, captioned an Instagram photo featuring Meghan and her daughter, Olympia. “It’s out now and worth the listen, especially if you’re ambitious.”

    “I don’t remember ever personally feeling the negative connotation behind the word ‘ambitious’ until I started dating my now-husband,” Meghan shared.

    Reflecting on life in the limelight as Prince Harry’s partner, she continued, “and apparently ambition is a terrible, terrible thing, for a woman that is — according to some. So, since I’ve felt the negativity behind it, it’s really hard to un-feel it. I can’t unsee it, either, in the millions of girls and women who make themselves smaller — so much smaller — on a regular basis.”

    Meghan also got personal about motherhood, revealing for the first time that a fire broke out in son Archie’s nursery during the couple’s royal tour to Africa in 2019. Although Archie was ready to go down for his nap, his nanny Lauren decided to bring him downstairs with her while she grabbed a snack — the same time that the heater in Archie’s room caught on fire.

    “He was supposed to be sleeping in there,” Meghan said.

    The Duchess of Sussex, who welcomed daughter Lilibet Diana in June 2021, said they then “had to leave him and go do another official engagement.”

    Serena replied, “I couldn’t have done that. I would have said, ‘Uh-uh.’”

     

    Source: People.com