Meghan Markle gave a fresh glimpse of Archie and Lilibet as she showed off the ‘special gift’ Prince Harry bought back for his children from his surprise visit to Ukraine.
This week has seen Prince Harry fly to the war-ravaged nation to meet injured soldiers and go to court seeking the reinstatement of his UK security detail.
The Duke of Sussex claims his police protection was taken away to ‘trap’ him and Meghan Markle in the UK.
Speaking outside the court, Harry said: ‘We were trying to create this happy house.’
And on Sunday Meghan posted a series of cute clips to Instagram painting an image of domestic bliss in the family home.
In a first post entitled ‘Weekend breakfast’, the Duchess of Sussex shows some American-style pancakes sizzling in a pan before cutting to the couple’s black Labrador Pula waiting expectantly.
The second post, tagged ‘for my loves’, features a lavish platter of morning treats, including fried eggs, an assortment of fruit and pancakes with bacon.
One of the children can be hear saying ‘Tell us mum’ before Meghan replies ‘Breakfast time!’
In a post on Meghan’s Instagram, a child hands, thought to belong to Harry and Meghan’s daughter Lilibet’s, can be passing the Duke a slice of cake
Meghan posted three stories on Instagram conveying a sense of domestic bliss, with the first showing her cooking pancakes
The second post, tagged ‘for my loves’, features a lavish platter of morning treats, including fried eggs, an assortment of fruit and pancakes with bacon. One of the children can be hear saying ‘Tell us mum’ before Meghan replies ‘Breakfast time!’
In the final Instagram story a child’s hands, thought to Lilibet’s, can be seen passing Harry a slice of cake that the Duke reportedly got during his visit to war-torn Ukraine on Thursday.
The prince can be heard laughing and saying ‘Thank you’ as the three-year-old passed him a slice of the cake, in a clip captioned ‘A special gift “papa bought back from Ukraine.'”
Harry met dozens of wounded soldiers in Lviv this week, including a visit to the Superhumans Center, an orthopedic specialist clinic for the treatment and rehabilitation of war victims who are dependent on a prosthesis due to amputation.
The trip proved controversial as it came the day after the end of a two-day appeal hearing in London as part of Harry’s push to have his police protection restored when he and Meghan visit the UK.
The couple’s security was revoked by the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (Ravec) back in 2020.
The Prince’s appearance at the Royal Courts of Justice did not require him to give evidence, but the Duke’s legal team say Ravec failed to get an assessment from an ‘expert specialist body’.
Instead they came up with a ‘bespoke practice’ which Harry says singled him out for ‘different, unjustified and inferior treatment.’
Harry was accused of hypocrisy after flying out to Ukraine earlier this week despite claiming he and his family cannot be safe in Britain without taxpayer-funded police bodyguards.
Prince Harry talks with a person wounded in the war with Russia at the Superhumans Center in Lviv on Thursday
Harry visited the Superhumans Centre in Lviv, an orthopaedic clinic and rehabilitation centre
Tthe Duke of Sussex (front, centre right) during a visit to Ukraine to meet war victims
Lviv has been pummeled by Russian jets, missiles and kamikaze drones at least 30 times since the war began in 2022 – with at least 33 civilians killed and hundreds more injured.
However, an insider told MailOnline that it is ‘simply incorrect’ to suggest the Ukraine trip contradicts Harry’s UK safety concerns or undermines his High Court case, claiming the team protecting him was ‘more robust’ than in Britain.
It has been suggested that Meghan and Harry have different views about sharing their two children on social media, Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3.
On a recent episode of Hello! magazine’s Right Royal podcast, Matt Wilkinson, the royal editor of The Sun, said Harry took a much more cautious approach to posting their children online.
‘My understanding of this is that, up to a certain stage, Harry would much rather his children were not seen,’ Matt said.
He added: ‘Whereas Meghan grew up in California, she once said she would like to have a more California style lifestyle, take them down the beach, go out, do stuff. She doesn’t want to hide them away.’
He noted that the Duchess does not share her children’s faces in images and videos she posts – something the panel said Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie also do when it comes to images of their children.
