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- Meghan Markle revealed on The Jamie Kern Lima Show the special way she is making memories for her kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet
- The Duchess of Sussex shares her 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter with husband Prince Harry
- Meghan said she emails the accounts for Archie and Lili “almost every night” before bed with updates about what happened that day
Meghan Markle is making memories for her children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, to look back on one day.
The Duchess of Sussex and her husband, Prince Harry, share son Prince Archie, 5, and daughter Princess Lilibet, 3, and she spoke about the digital tradition she has for her kids on The Jamie Kern Lima Show.
On the April 28 episode of the podcast hosted by her friend and IT Cosmetics co-founder Jamie Kern Lima, Meghan revealed that she is sending special emails for Archie and Lilibet to read one day about their life now.
“One of our mom friends, she had said to me last year that she just created, sort of, secret email addresses for her kids that she’ll give to them at some point in their life. She would just send to them random pictures, the pictures that you aren’t going to put in a frame,” the Duchess of Sussex, 43, explained of the inspiration.
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“I thought it was such a great time capsule to create for them because I used to have scrapbooks and photo albums, but we’re past that generation now. And so I’d created for the kids these email addresses that, sort of like, names, again, that you would never guess that I will give them at some point in their lives when they’re older. But before I go to bed almost every night, I email them! Because it doesn’t have to be a heavy lift,” she added.
Meghan said that she will send the addresses things like report cards, funny quotes that Archie and Lilibet said or photos of them eating breakfast together, summing up the small moments as “the things that you’re not going to frame, things that you’re not going to put pen to paper in a journal.”
“But they will end up at one point in their life, maybe when they’re 16 or when they’re 18, that I say, ‘Here’s an email that I’ve been keeping for you,’ ” said Meghan.
Jamie interjected that the sentimental gesture gave her “full body chills” as Meghan said it was “making me emotional.”
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“For them to be able to look back and go, ‘Oh my gosh, she has loved us so much!’ ” said Meghan. “And that’s, I think, the best part about being a mom and we go back to like, a love language or gifts. It’s not about the grandeur of a gesture. It’s about, ‘I see you. I’m nurturing you and I see you so deeply. And I love being able to see your growth,’ and I’m just so proud of them.”
Meghan added with a laugh, “I wasn’t expecting that one!” in what appeared to be the same snippet that played in Instagram promotion for the show.
There, she appeared to wipe tears from her eyes and said, “They’re just great, it’s so great — this is why it’s nice not to have makeup on.”
The Duchess of Sussex skipped makeup and wore sweats (stitched with Archie and Lili’s names) for her appearance on The Jamie Kern Lima Show. There, the friends discussed hot topics like if Meghan will write a memoir, run for office, how she and Prince Harry kicked off their nicknames and much more.
Though Meghan hosts the podcast Confessions of a Female Founder, which premiered on Lemonada Media on April 8, her appearance on Jamie’s show was memorable as her first time as a podcast guest.