Meghan has sat down for a wide-ranging, candid interview in which she opens up about her marriage to Prince Harry and the tough lessons she’s learned along the way
Meghan has given fans a rare insight into the dynamics of her marriage. Sitting down for a new interview, the Duchess of Sussex has dished on everything from her parenting and home life to the ‘mistakes’ she’s made since quitting the Royal Family back in 2018.
Indeed, life could not look more different now for the former royal since she and Prince Harry quit the family in 2020 and moved to the US. The pair upgraded from the grace-and-favour Frogmore House in Windsor’s Great Park to a a £12million nine-bedroom mansion in the exclusive California enclave of Montecito.
They’ve added daughter Lilibet – named after the late Queen Elizabeth – to their family, while enterprising Meghan has tried her hand at podcasting, documentary making, affiliate sales and writing books before launching her new brand as a lifestyle guru. Her As Ever products have sold out within minutes, while a Christmas special of her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, is just about to drop.
But there have been rocky times too, from their ‘downgraded’ Netflix deal to them being dropped by Spotify and branded ‘grifters’. While many loved Meghan’s show, it was also widely mocked with the Duchess accused of being inauthentic. Then there’s the continuing war with the Royal Family, worsened in no small measure by their tell-all books, interviews and Netflix series in which they shared their ‘truth’ about the royals.
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Reflecting on her journey as a ‘founder’ in the chat with Harper’s Bazaar, here are the biggest bombshells from the candid chat…
‘Mistakes’
Meghan was asked how she deals with making errors whilst living in the public eye, to which she had a cheeky response, deadpanning, “You learn not to do it again.”
“If it all goes swimmingly, you don’t learn from it. If you don’t learn anything, you’re not going to grow,” she continued. I’m a mom with kids at that age where they are constantly learning something new. I watch them face things that feel completely insurmountable every day. But you can remember and say, ‘I know it seems really hard right now, but trust me, that’s going to come so easily soon.’ I can give myself the same grace as a founder. There’s no such thing as perfect. I, too, get to make mistakes.”
‘Childlike’ Harry is ‘doting’ husband
Meghan lavished praise on her husband, Prince Harry, telling how his ‘childlike’ view of the world has filtered into every aspect of her being.
“He loves me so boldly, fully, and he also has a different perspective because he sees media that I wouldn’t,” she said. “No one in the world loves me more than him, so I know he’s always going to make sure that he has my back… you have someone who just has this childlike wonder and playfulness. I was so drawn to that, and he brought that out in me. That’s translated into every part of our life.”
Focus on ‘fun’
Meghan explained in the interview that these days she is trying to put a sense of fun and playfulness at the centre of her life, which she said was rooted in Harry’s personality.
“If you overwork the dough, it’s not going to rise. And sometimes I think the stress that people put on moments … they are so consumed in them that you lose the fun of why you are doing something,” she adds.
She pointed out, “There’s also not a lot of fun in trying to be perfect,” Meghan says. “So why try to do that if you want to have fun?”
Meghan’s a ‘parenting expert’
In one candid moment, Meghan admitted that she approaches parenting “very differently” to her own mother, Doria Ragland. Meghan is known to be incredibly close to her mum, but revealed to the magazine that she has forged her own path with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, studying books and apps to find her own parenting plan.
This “diligence” the interview explained, “has made her an authority within her friend circle,” when it comes to parenting questions, with tennis superstar Serena Williams – a close friend of Meghan’s – revealing to the magazine that she learns a lot from the Duchess about being a mother.
Paris Fashion Week trip
In September, Meghan stole the headlines when she popped up at the Balenciaga fashion show to support designer Pierpaolo Piccioli in his debut offering at the iconic fashion house.
He later said that she’s invited herself, and Meghan clarified that she actually offered to attend as a favour.
“I was excited for him,” she said. “I reached out and I said, ‘Happy to come and support you.’ We kept it a secret, and it was really fun.”
