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Meghan reveals Lilibet's latest milestone, details the Sussexes' morning routine and why she insists on cooking breakfast

By Karishma Sarkari|

M?eghan Markle has given fans an insight into the Sussex household in the latest episode of her Archetypes podcast.

The Duchess of Sussex? confirmed reports she and Prince Harry got a new dog, their third, making their mornings that little bit busier, and also spoke of daughter Lilibet's latest milestone.

"Lili has just started walking," the mum-of-two told actress Pamela Adlon as they dissected the judgement associated with Good Wife/Bad Wife, Good Mum/Bad Mum.

Watch the video above.?

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Meghan (left) says daughter Lilibet is now walking (Pictured on her first birthday on June 4, 2022). (Misan Harriman/The Duke and Duchess of Sussex)

"She's a year and a couple of months old and Archie is just over three years old," Meghan said.

"Oh, I'm in the thick of it, toddling."

Like for most parents, mornings in their Montecito home are a juggle but Meghan said she relishes the "morning rush" and insists on cooking breakfast for everyone each morning.

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"I'm sure it'll only get more chaotic as they get older," she said.

"For me, it's, you know, both monitors on for the kids to hear them. Always up with Lili, get her downstairs, then a half hour later, Archie's up.

"I start doing his lunchbox right before he's up while I have her, getting her a little nibble. My husband's helping me get him downstairs.

"I make breakfast for all three of them. It's very important to me. I love doing it - to me, it just feels like the greatest way to start the morning."

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The Duchess of Sussex admitted it can feel like a "whirlwind" as she gets Archie off to school but praises Prince Harry for being a "partner" in parenting. (Instagram/SussexRoyal)

The Duchess of Sussex admitted it can feel like a "whirlwind" as she feeds the dogs จC Guy, Pula and Mia จC and gets Archie off to school but praises Prince Harry for being a "partner" in parenting.

Also during the episode Meghan spoke with good friend Sophie Trudeau, wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whom she describes as knowing "what it feels like to be a mum and a partner and specifically a mum and a partner in the public eye"?.

Meghan tried to analyse where the pressure to be a good wife and mother comes from.

"I think we've learned to self-impose," she said to Sophie, a mum-of-three.

"A little girl is not born feeling guilty for being a girl; we learn it, and that's completely unacceptable.

"So, I think that when I started becoming an older girl and at an early adult stage, I realised that we often define freedom as a way to be free from the world, but it's really a way to be free in the world."

Sophie Trudeau and Meghan Markle photobooth shot on a night out together
Sophie Trudeau and Meghan Markle photobooth shot on a night out together (Instagram/Meghan Markle)

Meghan said becoming a mum to a daughter changed the way she looks at things.

"I first just had Archie, now I'm a mum of a daughter," she said while speaking to Adlon.

"And whether I thought it was going to happen or not, it did. I see the world differently through how she is going to see the world and how she is going to look at certain women as role models.

"And when I look at a lot of the women that I'm speaking to on this show, you included, I want her to understand that it is not just a box you have to fit into, but you get to be a full-fledged, interesting, curious, kind, strong, all the things, human being. But you also get to be a woman with a voice."

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