Meghan Markle Returns Home to California from the Invictus Games — Why She Headed Back Early
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Keeping with a pre-planned arrangement, Meghan headed home early to be with the couple’s two children:Prince Archie, 5, andPrincess Lilibet, 3.
An onlooker in Vancouver told PEOPLE at the start of the event: “I think it’s great that she’s coming. There is a lot of speculation about them and their marriage, but this reinforces one thing to me, at least — there is no separation. It looks like they present a united front when it comes to matters they both care about.”
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Meghan will be returning to California with some souvenirs for her children:custom jerseys from Team Nigeria.
“We did one for him [Harry] and one for M and for the kids,” Nigerian team manager Derrick Cobbinah told PEOPLE. “They said they would be excited to have them. She was very, very excited.”
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“With families…the big rush in the morning and getting ready for school and packing the lunchboxes and making breakfast and my husband is in all of that with all of us,” Meghan said. “And then he’ll be on his phone, and Archie will say, ‘Papa, why are you on your phone?’ and he’s like, ‘Because it’s Invictus, I’m getting ready for Invictus.'”
“It means so much to him,” Meghan shared. “You are his family, just as we are his family. And I hope you recognize how much of his heart he has poured into every single beat that has gotten all of you to this week that is going to be spectacular.”
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“Interestingly, it gave me a chance to talk about my mum, his grandma, which I didn’t even really consider,” Prince Harry said. “That became the outcome of the story for him. He wanted to see videos and photographs of his Grandma Diana out doing her thing for landmines all those years ago.”
“It produced a very interesting conversation between me and him, different to what I thought it would be,” he added.
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While Prince Harry and Meghan won’t be together for Valentine’s Day, they celebrated the holiday early with adouble date with Michael Bubléand his wife, Luisana Lopilato. The two couples dined at the Italian restaurantIl Caminettoin Whistler on Feb. 10,Town & Countryreported, where Meghan wore diamond earrings that were a Valentine’s Day gift from Harry last year.
source: people.com
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