Meghan Markle Says Daughter Lilibet Is Walking, Reveals Her Morning Routine

Meghan Markle said she is "in the thick of it" as her daughter Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor has learned to walk.

The Duchess of Sussex revealed her morning parenting routine during a conversation with actress Pamela Adlon for her Archetypes podcast on Spotify.

"Lili has just started walking. She's a year and a couple months old and Archie's just over 3 years old. So yeah, they are... Oh, I'm in the thick of it," Meghan said.

"Yeah, well, so the morning rush, I'm sure it'll only get more chaotic as they get older, but for me, it's, you know, both monitors on for the kids to hear them, always up with Lili, get her downstairs," she added.

"Then a half hour later, Archie's up, start doing his lunchbox right before he's up.
While I have her, getting her a little nibble, my husband's help[ing] me get him downstairs. And it's...I make breakfast for all three of them. It's very important to me. I love doing it.

"It just to me feels like the greatest way to start the morning. And then it's like feed all three of the dogs because we just got another dog and then get Archie out the door to school...it does, it feels like a whirlwind."

Asked whether Harry was "a good contributor," she said: "My husband, he's great."

Meghan also described studying for the "Life in the U.K." test in 2018 that's required in order to obtain British citizenship, though it is not believed she ever completed the exam as the couple moved to the United States.

"That citizenship exam is so hard. I was studying for it and I remember going, 'Oh my goodness,' Meghan said. "I would ask my husband, 'Did you know this? Did you know this?' And he went, 'oh I have no idea.'"

Better Things star Adlon, who holds dual U.S. and British citizenship, replied: "I think they made it harder for you. Yeah, they were like, 'we're gonna really throw up walls on this one.'"

Thom Brooks, dean of Durham Law School, wrote about the challenges at the time in a Guardian article headlined: "Good luck with the British citizenship test, Meghan Markle. It's a mess."

"It's like a bad pub quiz: the test for British citizenship that few Brits could pass. One candidate failed 64 times before finally passing the test, and if you look at what the government's quiz asks, it's easy to see why," Brooks wrote.

"How many of us know the height of the London Eye, the age of Big Ben's clock tower, or that Sake Dean Mahomed introduced curry to the UK in opening the Hindoostane Coffee House on George Street, London? These are some of the nearly 3,000 facts in the 180-page test handbook anyone wanting to stay in Britain is expected to know."

Despite the fact that Meghan left the U.K. less than two years after marrying Harry without completing a citizenship application, a presenter on talkRADIO said she should be stripped of her citizenship in March 2021 ahead of her Oprah Winfrey interview.

Mike Graham told his listeners: "I say not only do we strip them from the Royal Family, not only do we take away all royal connections, not only do we tell them, 'no, thanks, don't bother coming back to the UK.' We strip them right now, today, of British citizenship.

"Surely, this kind of attack on our most-treasured tradition must mean Haz and Megz are no longer members of this great nation of ours."