{"id":2112818,"date":"2025-10-24T14:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2112818"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:11:15","slug":"meghan-markle-reveals-at-home-family-rituals-with-prince-harry-and-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meghan-markle-reveals-at-home-family-rituals-with-prince-harry-and-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle reveals at-home family rituals with Prince Harry and kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Meghan Markle has revealed some of the sweet at-home rituals she and husband Prince Harry practice with their children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst thing I do when I wake up in the morning is turn the music on in the house,\u201d she shared Wednesday, during a chat with close friend Courtney Adamo at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.godmothers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Godmothers Bookstore<\/a> in Montecito, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Markle added that she even takes a portable speaker when traveling, along with a scented candle, so that she can play music and create a positive environment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Meghan Markle shared some of the sweet at-home rituals she and Prince Harry practice with their kids. <span class=\"credit\">Godmothers\/Substack<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The Duchess revealed she always puts on music when she gets up. <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI always travel with a candle,\u201d the Duchess of Sussex, 44, explained. \u201cI am so conscious and sensitive to fragrance, and I associate that with home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Markle spoke to Adamo, a lifestyle blogger, to promote Adamo\u2019s new book, <a target=\"_blank\" data-aps-asc-tag=\"pagesix-20\" data-aps-asin=\"1761451464\" data-wrapped-template=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url\" href=\"https:\/\/r.pagesixlink.com?btn_ref=org-282f0dd399864b44&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFamily-Home-Inspiring-Ideas-Filled%2Fdp%2F1761451464%3Ftag%3Dpagesix-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fpagesix.com%2F2025%2F10%2F24%2Froyal-family%2Fmeghan-markle-reveals-at-home-family-rituals-with-prince-harry-and-kids%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">\u201cThe Family Home: Inspiring Ideas For A Home Filled With Joy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She shared that one tip from the book she uses with her kids \u2014 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/09\/01\/royal-family\/meghan-markle-shares-rare-glimpse-of-prince-archie-and-princess-lilibet-on-set-of-with-love-meghan\/\">Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4<\/a> \u2014 is the \u201crose and thorn\u201d ritual, to elicit more than a \u201cyes-or-no\u201d response to a question.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Markle also uses a technique called the \u201crose and thorn\u201d to get her kids to say more than just \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Alexi Lubomirski \/ Duke and Duchess of Sussex<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Markle and Prince Harry share two kids: Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4. <span class=\"credit\">meghan\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOur daughter, she\u2019s four and she\u2019s a very strong personality and she\u2019s incredible,\u201d Markle gushed. \u201cAnd now she\u2019s in this moment where I say, \u2018What\u2019s your rose and your thorn?\u2019 And she goes, \u2018My day was just a blast.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another ritual she and Prince Harry share with their children is the \u201chealing blanket,\u201d which was a gift from the bookstore\u2019s co-founder, Victoria Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>When one of the children isn\u2019t feeling well, they reach out for the \u201chealing blanket\u201d to comfort them.<\/p>\n<p>Markle first met Adamo in college, where they were in the same sorority at Northwestern University.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Markle chatted with close friend Courtney Adamo to publicize Adamo\u2019s new book. <span class=\"credit\">Godmothers\/Substack<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>After the chat, Markle hosted attendees on the bookstore\u2019s patio. <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The \u201cSuits\u201d alum shared that she and Adamo were supposed to fly back to Chicago from Los Angeles on 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the two of us ended up driving 30 hours over three days. 10 hours a day. From Los Angeles to Chicago together at one of the most fragile, tender times in this country,\u201d she said, noting that the journey made her realize the importance of \u201ccommunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the talk, a reception was held on the bookstore\u2019s patio, where Markle served Sauvignon Blanc from her wine line, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/03\/03\/royal-family\/meghan-markle-admits-to-mistakes-with-as-ever-brand-launch\/\">As Ever.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle has revealed some of the sweet at-home rituals she and husband Prince Harry practice with their children. \u201cFirst thing I do when I wake up in the morning is turn the music on in the house,\u201d she shared Wednesday, during a chat with close friend Courtney Adamo at the Godmothers Bookstore in Montecito, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2112819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[354894,24003,354895,23067,22730,22769],"class_list":["post-2112818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-archie-harrison-mountbatten-windsor","tag-celebrity-news","tag-lilibet-diana-mountbatten-windsor","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Meghan-Markle-reveals-at-home-family-rituals-with-Prince-Harry-and.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112820,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112818\/revisions\/2112820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2112819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}