The Duchess told DeGeneres her experience of driving onto the Warner Bros lot, where Ellen is taped, was very different to the experience she had as a working actress sitting behind the wheel of a car whose driver’s-side door would not open.
“I would park in the back of the parking lot and open the trunk, then climb in and pull it shut behind me and crawl over all my seats to get out,” the Duchess said. “That’s how I would come to and fro.”
The Duchess revealed that Prince Harry and their children had dressed up for Halloween this year in the US: Archie had dressed as a dinosaur for “not even five minutes,” DeGeneres noted, and Lilibet was dressed as a skunk.
Meghan shared with the audience a photograph of Archie feeding chickens at their home, and talked briefly about parenting with her husband, saying Prince Harry as a father was “the most beautiful thing to watch.”
“Someone told H and I that when you have one kid it’s a hobby, and two children is parenting,” she said. “Suddenly we realised, ‘Oh right,’ everyone talks about what it’s like for the second child but no one talks about the adjustment for the first child.”
The new interview has been criticised in the British media, with whom the Duke and Duchess have a hostile relationship.
Good Morning Britain co-host Susanna Reid, who has spoken in favour of the Duchess in the past, including several memorable clashes with the show’s former co-host Piers Morgan, conceded the Duchess was “getting increasingly hard to defend”.
Morgan quit the program in March after a blistering tirade against the Duchess which prompted more than 57,000 complaints to the British television regulator Ofcom. Morgan was later cleared by Ofcom.
The new interview could be seen as a carefully curated exercise in smoothing some bumps after a particularly bad week of press for the Duchess, who was forced to recant on a claim she had not cooperated with the authors of a damaging book about the Sussex’s departure from the royal family.
In May 2021, the Duchess won a privacy and copyright case against Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher of The Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, after they published a letter she had sent her father, Thomas Markle.
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The publisher has appealed the verdict, with Prince Harry and Meghan’s former press secretary, Jason Knauf, giving evidence in the past week. Among the damaging revelations is that the Duke and Duchess falsely claimed they did not co-operate with Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie, the authors of the book Finding Freedom.
The Duke and Duchess were married in May 2018 at Windsor Castle; they effectively resigned as working members of the royal family in 2020, losing access to the style “Royal Highness” in the process, and moved to Montecito, California.
They have since signed a US$100 million deal with Netflix and a $25 million deal with Spotify.
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‘We’re just happy’: Meghan talks Prince Harry during surprise Ellen appearance
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