Meghan Markle has given a rare glimpse inside her family life and has shared the six-word statement that daughter Lilibet told her that melted her heart.
During a three-day visit to Nigeria alongside husband Prince Harry earlier this month, 42 year old Meghan attended a range of events as part of their unofficial “royal tour”, including one which saw her co-host a panel event on Women in Leadership.
However, it was during another event on the tour that the Duchess of Sussex opened up about her life as a mum-of-two to her son Archie, five, and two year old daughter Lilibet.
On the first day of the trip, where the couple visited Abuja, Meghan spoke to a group of schoolchildren and revealed the profound realisation she’d made during a conversation with her daughter Lilibet.
“Our daughter, Lili, she's much, much tinier than you guys,” Meghan explained as she spoke to the group. “She's about to turn three. And a few weeks ago, she looked at me, and she would just see the reflection in my eyes. And she said, ‘Mama, I see me in you.’”
Though the Duchess of Sussex knew that her daughter was referring to how she could see her reflection in her eyes, Meghan says she “hung” onto the words differently and made a heartfelt conclusion of her own.
“Oh, now she was talking really literally. But I hung onto those words in a very different way,” she added. “And I thought, yes, I do see me in you, and you see me.”
As she came to the end of her sweet story, doting mum Meghan added that she saw herself in the school children she was speaking to.
The former Suits actress’ statement comes after husband Prince Harry visited the UK at the beginning of this month to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Invictus Games. While on the solo visit, he attended a service at St Paul’s Cathedral where he was greeted by chants of “we love you Harry” as he mingled with well wishers.
While Harry attended the event, his father King Charles attended a Buckingham Palace garden party around two miles away from the cathedral. However, despite his father’s busy schedule, Prince Harry wasn’t alone at the service and he was joined by the likes of his uncle Earl Charles Spencer and aunt Lady Jane Fellowes as well as his lawyer David Sherbourne and former Army officer Mark Dyer.
