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Meghan Markle once asked the late Queen Elizabeth II to buy her son a very unusual present, and had a specific wish when a young Prince Archie was just two years old. Prince Harry shared this amusing anecdote with James Corden while appearing on The Late Late Show.
The Prince said: “My grandmother asked us what Archie wanted for Christmas, and Meg said a waffle maker. So she sent us a waffle maker for Archie, so breakfast now Meg makes up a beautiful organic mix, in the waffle maker, flip it, out it comes.”
He added: “He loves it. And now I have waffles for breakfast, bit of yoghurt, bit of jam on top. I don’t know if that’s the right thing to do. Berries, bit of honey.”
Surprised at the outcome, James Corden said: “Sorry you’re glossing over the fact that I cannot for the life of me imagine the Queen ordering a waffle maker to be sent to Santa Barbara. I can’t get my head around it.”
Harry jokingly added: “I don’t even know how to comment on that. Archie wakes up in the morning and literally just goes ‘waffle?'”
The royals cherish a unique tradition of exchanging humours and joke gifts during afternoon tea on Christmas Eve. Speaking about the tradition, royal expert, Richard Kay said: “Harry once gave his grandmother a pair of rubber gloves for doing the dishes – I mean, really quite bizarre presents. Meghan would have found that as extraordinary as a certain Diana Spencer on her first Christmas buying lavish gifts for her in-laws. She never made that mistake again.”
In the 2021 Channel 5 documentary ‘Harry and Meghan Vs The Monarchy’, Simon Vigar, the Royal correspondent for 5 News, spoke of the time Meghan purchased an unusual gift for the late Queen.
He said: “Meghan played a blinder on her first Christmas. She got a toy – a singing hamster – for the Queen and apparently she loved it…and so did the corgis.”
Today, Prince Archie, the eldest child of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, is celebrating his 6th birthday, marking five years since the Sussexes moved out of the UK.
Harry and Meghan stepped down as senior royals and eventually moved to America in 2020, stating they wanted space to raise Archie. They wrote on Instagram: “This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter.”
Last week, Meghan posted a black and white photo on her Instagram account showing her husband walking through a garden holding Archie’s hand and carrying daughter Lilibet on his shoulders.
Since relaunching her Instagram account on New Year’s Day, Meghan has routinely shared glimpses of family life in Montecito, California.