Meghan Markle news: opens up about nanny she has had for five years amid working mum commnents

Meghan Markle has recently spoken out about being a ‘working mum’, sharing her struggles with juggling young kids, her career, her new brand As ever and her podcast Confessions of a Female Founder.

But the 43-year-old revealed that she’s not actually doing it alone and during her appearance on The Jamie Kern Lima Show, she spoke about her “amazing” nanny. 

It was while describing their morning routine that she made the revelation, and confirmed that the nanny has been with them for five years.

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The Duchess of Sussex said she wakes up at 6.30 because it “gives me a minute” before her children Prince Archie, five, and Princess Lilibet, three, wake up at 7am.

”This morning was different because Archie has a cold so he’s home from school,” she explained.

Meghan adding that when she wakes up she will “put on workout clothes brush my teeth, get both of them, up I get them dressed get them downstairs, make breakfast and then if I haven’t done their lunch boxes the night before then do that”.

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“I love doing lunch boxes, it makes me very happy and writing a little note in their lunch boxes,” she described.

“If I don’t have meetings in the morning then I try to do school drop off.”

She spoke of driving her children to “two different schools” which is a “big circuit” that sees her return home at around 9am.

“And then on other days then I’ll wake up and get them all set and then our amazing nanny who’s been with us for five years, she’ll take them to school for us,” she added.

Meghan didn’t name the nanny.

The Duchess of Sussex has spoken often about the challenges of being a working mum, including in her own podcast Confessions Of A Female Founder.

During her conversation with Women Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Meghan spoke about juggling motherhood and work. With Love, Meghan, podcast and lifestyle brand As ever.

“With that comes the woman who is juggling it all and doing it all from home, being confident enough to tell the truth about what’s going on, because you can’t give grace to someone in the same way if you just have no sense of it,” she said.

“My kids, for example, right now, one has RSV, the other has influenza A,” the duchess continued.

“I hear a little pitter patter of feet upstairs, home from school, you know cough syrup all night and rubbing the back, and … we still find a way to show up for both,” she said.

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex had employed nannies in the UK following Prince Archie’s birth in 2019.

It was claimed in Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand’s 2020 book Finding Freedom the couple fired a night nurse during her second shift for being “unprofessional and irresponsible”.

They reportedly hired a second night nurse but later chose a daytime nanny, taking over nighttime duties themselves.

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It is believed that daytime nurse was Lorren Khumalo who appeared in the fourth episode of the couple’s Netflix Series Harry & Meghan.

The British royal family has a long history of hiring nannies.

Princes William and Harry forged a strong bond with their own nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke who worked with the family for six years from 1993 until 1999 and was reportedly a “second mother figure” to both boys.

The Prince and Princess of Wales have been working with Spanish nanny Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo since 2014 when Prince George was eight months.

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