Prince Harry is opening up about his life at home and his recent surprise visit to Queen Elizabeth II, saying that he and his wife, Meghan, had tea and laughs with the monarch.
“It was really nice to catch up with her”Enrique told NBC’s Today show in an interview that aired Wednesday. “She is in wonderful shape. She always has a great sense of humor with me.”
Harry and Meghan visited the queen at Windsor Castle on Thursday in their first trip to the UK together since giving up their formal royal roles and moving to the United States more than two years ago.
Harry said that, like many working parents, he and his wife have found it difficult to separate work and parenting their children Archie, who is almost 3 years old, and Lilibet, 10 months, during the pandemic. “Archie spends more time than anyone interrupting our Zoom calls”he said, adding that he also “It gets us out of them, which is a good thing.”
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It is the first joint meeting since they left their royal duties
The couple visited Harry’s 95-year-old grandmother on their way to the Netherlands to attend the Invictus Games. The prince is founder and sponsor of the international sports competition for wounded war veterans.
She said she wanted to return to the UK with her children for the queen’s upcoming platinum jubilee, but warned “security issues” could get in the way. “I do not know yet. There are a lot of things, with security issues and everything else”said Harry, adding that he was “trying to make it possible for my children to meet her.”
Harry is suing the British government for refusing to allow him to pay for his own police security on his visits to the UK. His lawyers say that the prince wants to take his children to visit his home country, but that he is too risky without police protection.
Harry and Meghan, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, stepped down as royals and moved to Santa Barbara, California, in 2020, citing the unbearable pressure of their roles and the racist attitudes of the British press towards Meghan. whose mother is black.
“My home now is, for the moment, in the United States”Henry said. “We have been welcomed with open arms. I mean, they have such a wonderful community in Santa Barbara.”
Harry traveled to the UK alone to attend the funeral of his grandfather, Prince Philip, in April 2021, and to unveil a statue of his late mother, Princess Diana, last July.
He said he was enjoying fatherhood: “I always wanted to have children of my own, and now I have two little people that I am responsible for.”
He also said that he has been thinking about his late mother even more: “I feel his presence in almost everything I do now. But definitely more than ever in the last two years, no doubt. So she’s taking care of us.”
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