{"id":318160,"date":"2025-08-04T21:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318160\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:36:17","slug":"meghan-markles-strange-request-to-late-queen-about-son-archies-present-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318160\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle&#8217;s strange request to late Queen about son Archie&#8217;s present &#8211; Celebrity News &#8211; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry revealed that Queen Elizabeth once purchased an unexpected gift for his son, Archie, at <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/179339\/meghan-markle-turbulent-year-birthday#:~:text=Meghan%20Markle%20is%20celebrating%20her,number%20of%20highs%20and%20lows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle&#8217;s request.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex shared this heartwarming tidbit in 2021, offering a rare peek into his life in Montecito with <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/meghan-markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Duchess<\/a>, who is celebrating her 44th birthday today, and their two children, Archie and Lilibet.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">Harry made an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, where he disclosed that the Queen had asked him and Meghan what six-year-old Archie wanted for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, young Archie, who was one and a half years old at the time, desired an unusual kitchen appliance, which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex then requested from her Majesty. This is <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/166696\/meghan-markle-saint-patricks-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">believed to have sparked the young royal&#8217;s love of cooking.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harry stated, &#8220;My son is now over a year and a half. He is hysterical. He&#8217;s got the most amazing personality. He&#8217;s already putting two or three words together, and he&#8217;s already singing songs.&#8221; He continued: &#8220;His first word was &#8216;crocodile&#8217;, three syllables.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Duke then unveiled his late grandmother&#8217;s unique Christmas present, saying: &#8220;Interestingly, my grandmother asked us what Archie wanted for Christmas and Meg said a waffle maker, she sent us a waffle maker for Archie..&#8221;, reports <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2090488\/meghan-markles-strange-gift-request\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\">the Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So breakfast now, Meg makes up a beautiful organic mix in the waffle maker, flips it, and out it comes, he loves it. Archie literally wakes up in the morning and says &#8216;waffle&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON&#8217;T MISS&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/tv\/179346\/netflix-u-turn-prince-harry-meghan-markle\" target=\"_blank\" data-name=\"Netflix&#039;s U-turn on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle despite &#039;dumping&#039; claims\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix&#8217;s U-turn on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle despite &#8216;dumping&#8217; claims<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/179339\/meghan-markle-turbulent-year-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" data-name=\"Meghan Markle&#039;s turbulent year as she turns 44 - from Netflix &#039;flop&#039; to backlash\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle&#8217;s turbulent year as she turns 44 &#8211; from Netflix &#8216;flop&#8217; to backlash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/entertainment\/celebrity-news\/179328\/nicole-kidman-keith-urban-anger-locals\" target=\"_blank\" data-name=\"Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban &#039;anger locals&#039; as they join Meghan and Harry\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban &#8216;anger locals&#8217; as they join Meghan and Harry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Harry, the Queen&#8217;s thoughtful gift has turned him into a waffle enthusiast for breakfast as well.<\/p>\n<p>He further shared: &#8220;Now I have waffles for breakfast, a bit of yoghurt, a bit of jam on top. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s the right thing to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Duchess posted a video of herself preparing waffles for St Patrick&#8217;s Day, leading many Royal enthusiasts to speculate that it was the late Queen&#8217;s unique present to her great-grandson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry revealed that Queen Elizabeth once purchased an unexpected gift for his son, Archie, at Meghan Markle&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[14608,7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,8170,115624,447,1763,8821,7710,519,7711,115625],"class_list":{"0":"post-318160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-archie","9":"tag-british-royal-family","10":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","11":"tag-duke-of-sussex","12":"tag-harry","13":"tag-meghan","14":"tag-meghan-markle","15":"tag-prince-archie","16":"tag-prince-archie-harrison","17":"tag-prince-harry","18":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","19":"tag-queen-elizabeth","20":"tag-royal-families","21":"tag-royal-family","22":"tag-uk-royal-family","23":"tag-waffle-maker"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114972654580243552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}