Eight months after Meghan Markle’s bombshell tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Duchess of Sussex has made another rare TV appearance—this time on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
It marks Meghan’s first daytime talk show interview since joining the royal family and it’s perhaps her most entertaining media appearance in a while.
While her light-hearted conversation with Ellen featured significantly less shocking reveals, viewers saw Meghan in a way we hadn’t been able to before—playful, carefree, and undeniably happy.
Here are some highlights of the interview:
Meghan talks about Prince Harry as a father. ‘is the most beautiful thing’
The Duchess of Sussex gushed about her husband while discussing the inspiration behind her children’s book The Bench.
“I wrote this originally just as a poem for my husband on Father’s Day and it was about my observation of him and him being a dad, which is the most beautiful thing to watch,”DeGeneres was informed by Meghan
Meghan shared that the poem eventually evolved into the idea of releasing a book at the urging of the couple’s friends, who said that the “sweet love story” resonated with them and could work as a children’s book.
She also thought about some of her favorite characteristics about Harry as a father, such as the “softer side of masculinity, the softer side of fatherhood,”While she agreed that it was important that she ensure that “everyone could see themselves in these pages”.
The couple’s daughter, Lilibet, has started teething
It’s a great milestone for the whole family! Meghan revealed that 5-month-old daughter Lilibet has started already teething, and as a mother, it’s been difficult to watch her child be in pain.
Meghan indicated that she wants to do. “anything to relieve that”Lili’s pain.
Ellen laughed, “Tequila, anything,”Meghan replied, “That’s Auntie Ellen for you.”The talk-show host laughed and said, “That’s why I don’t have kids.”
Ellen playing a prank
A classic game Ellen DeGeneres ShowThis usually involves the guest of honor playing a prank on an uninformed stranger. Surprisingly, Ellen told the Duchess what to do and how to say it via an earpiece. The Duchess agreed and joined the fun.
Meghan was a nonchalant visitor to a market, stopping at a stall and buying crystals. Then things went awry. As directed by Ellen, Meghan began to do a series of hilarious acts from closing her eyes as she holds a crystal to her head, chanting to taking a swig of milk from a baby bottle to even devouring a chip like a chipmunk—leaving the vendors very confused.
About her acting career
Meghan was an actress in Hollywood long before her time as a royal. Speaking to Ellen, she looked back fondly on her visits to the Warner Bros lot where Ellen’s show is taped, but back then her trips to the legendary lot looked very different: she was there for auditions.
“The security guards would always say: ‘Break a leg! We hope you get it!’ So the drive-in today was very different,”Meghan spoke.
Meghan also thought about the car she used to drive to auditions. “very, very old Ford Explorer Sport”It had been a “life of its own”. In fact, her vehicle was so worn down, she admitted she had to crawl inside from her trunk because the door’s lock was broken.
Meghan Markle revealed that Harry and she secretly went to a Halloween party one night before their relationship became public
One last hurrah. Before Prince Harry’s budding relationship was revealed, Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank enjoyed one last night out on the town.
“The four of us snuck out in Halloween costumes to just have one fun night on the town before it was out in the world that we were a couple,”She said.
Meghan shared the fact that Meghan and her husband were dressed in the same style. “very bizarre” costumes to fit the Halloween party’s post-apocalyptic theme, making them unrecognizable.
“We were able to just sort of have one final, fun night out,”She said
On her ethnic hair and how it prevented her from copying Andie MacDowell’s haircut
Meghan hilariously remembered her childhood hair disaster that left her looking like Krusty The Clown. Meghan had at the time attempted to imitate Andie McDowell’s style from the 1990’s movie F.Our Weddings and Funerals
Ellen asked Meghan about a book for children she wrote when she was a child. It was titled “A Face Without Freckles is a Night Without Stars,” a hand-drawn self-portrait of Meghan with a cropped curly haircut was included inside the book.
“This is what I looked at.” Meghan laughed. “And that’s because my hair looked so bad back then, because I was obsessed by Andie McDowell. Four Weddings, and a Funeral.”
“All I wanted was that perfect little curly haircut. So I asked my mom and we went to the hairdressers and got it.”
The Duchess said that while she initially felt “amazing” with her new hairdo, she quickly realized it looked nothing like MacDowell’s.
“It was like everyone forgot to tell me that you have ethnic hair and are not going look like Andie MacDowell,”” Meghan joked, adding: “And when I got into school they told me I looked like Krusty the Clown from the Simpsons.“
Archie shares a new photo
Two proud mothers shared a rare photo of their 2-year-old son, where his bright red hair is just like dad! It is all on full display. Archie is seen in this pic standing in his chicken coop, wearing a pair of adorable Hunter rain boots. In his hand is an empty basket, which he presumably used to collect the eggs from the family’s hens.
“He’s so sweet with the chickens, too,”DeGeneres. “Archie is just such a gentle soul.”
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