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Meghan Markle praises fathers who “lead with love” while avoiding her own in new interview
Meghan Markle sent a Father’s Day greeting to her husband and other dads who “lead with love” but she didn’t mention her own father.
The Duchess of Sussex said that she wished for Prince Harry’s first Father’s Day to be memorable. The Duchess of Sussex spoke more about her new children’s book, The Bench, and the “sentimental” present she chose for Harry in a new interview with NPR Weekend Edition on Sunday.
“As most of us do, you go, ‘What am I going to get them as a gift?'” Meghan revealed to NPR in her first interview since her and Harry’s shocking appearance with Oprah Winfrey. “And I thought I just wanted something sentimental and a place for him to have as a bit of a home base with our son.”
During the interview, which was recorded before the birth of her daughter Lilibet, The Duchess said that she gave her husband a bench with an engraved plaque for his first Father’s Day and that she was ‘inspired’ to compose the poem after seeing him with Archie.
Meghan penned a poem about the family experiences she wanted to enjoy on the piece of outdoor furniture.
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The poem begins, “This is your bench/Where life will begin/For you and our son/Our baby, our kin.”
She said, “Archie loves the book, which is great. He has a voracious appetite for books and constantly when you read him a book goes ‘again, again, again,’ ” Meghan said. “Now the fact that he loves ‘The Bench’ and we can say ‘mommy wrote this for you,’ that feels amazing .”
“The Bench,” which was published earlier this month, was meant to celebrate the relationship between dads and their kids. In her dedication, Meghan wrote, “For the man and the boy who make my heart go pump – pump,”
Meghan discussed the significance of having different cultures, faiths, races, and more represented among its drawings, in an interview with NPR.
The book includes photographs of families from all around the globe, some of which are based on stories she has heard from others. In his works, illustrator Christian Robinson emphasized a wide range of dads and sons.
“Growing up, I remember so much how it felt to not see yourself represented,” she said. “Any child or any family hopefully can open this book and see themselves in it, whether that means glasses or freckled or a different body shape or a different ethnicity or religion.”
“I really hope that people can see this as a love story that transcends the story of my family,” she later said.
Meghan described The Bench as a “love story.”
“I often find, and especially in this past year, I think so many of us realized how much happens in the quiet,” she said. “It was definitely moments like that, watching them from out of the window and watching [my husband] just, you know, rock him to sleep or carry him or, you know … those lived experiences, from my observation, are the things that I infused in this poem.”
Though the poem was written for Prince Harry and the book is intended for children, Markle thinks it is a love tale for all ages.
“It’s really just about growing with someone and having this deep connection and this trust so that, be at good times or bad, you know that you had this person,” Meghan said.
The £12.99 title has topped the New York Times Bestsellers List for children’s picture books, although it has only sold 3,212 copies in the UK in its first week since its June 8 release.
Harry and Meghan, who had their second child, daughter Lilibet, this month, currently reside in California after stepping down as front-line royals last year.
The Duke of Sussex has a strained relationship with his father, Prince Charles, whom he said had stopped answering his phone calls in an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Meghan, 39, has been estranged from her father, Thomas Markle Snr, for some time, after a series of incidents surrounding her marriage to Prince Harry.
Despite being discovered staging paparazzi photos in the run-up to Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding, Markle Snr was still scheduled to accompany his daughter down the aisle in May 2018.
However, he had a heart attack and was unable to travel to the United Kingdom. Since then, he has given a series of interviews to different stations, accusing Meghan of betraying him and pleading for them to contact him.
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