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Meghan Markle‘s St. Patrick’s Day breakfast may have been made with a little help from the late Queen Elizabeth.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, shared a glimpse at how she celebrated the holiday on March 17 with Prince Harry and their two children, 5-year-old son Prince Archie and 3-year-old daughter Princess Lilibet, via her Instagram Stories. A series of videos showed her making breakfast, starting with a shot of her stirring green batter captioned, “About this morning…”
Footage then showed the batter being poured into a waffle maker. The result was green waffles, including ones made into a face using blueberries for eyes, a kiwi as the mouth and whipped cream as hair “for the kids.”
Prince Harry, 40, previously revealed that his grandmother Queen Elizabeth, who died in 2022, once gifted their son Archie with a waffle maker when he was a toddler.
Meghan Markle makes breakfast on St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, 2025. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Instagram
During an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, the Duke of Sussex said, “My grandmother asked us what Archie wanted for Christmas, and Meg said a waffle maker. She sent us a waffle maker for Archie. So breakfast now, Meg makes up a beautiful organic mix in the waffle maker.”
Adding that his son, who was less than 2 years old at the time, “loves” the waffle maker, Harry said, “Archie wakes up in the morning and goes ‘waffle.’ “
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Meghan Markle makes breakfast on St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, 2025. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Instagram
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations also included green drinks for both adults and kids. “We love a theme,” Meghan captioned a video showing the beverages, including a glimpse at one of her children’s hands.
“Happy St. Patrick’s Day,” Meghan wrote with a green heart emoji over a shot of the grown-up version of the holiday breakfast, which included strawberries beside the green waffle.
Meghan Markle makes breakfast on St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, 2025. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Instagram
The Duchess of Sussex previously celebrated Valentine’s Day with a holiday-themed breakfast and shared a glimpse at the meal on her Instagram page, which she launched at the start of the year. Set to the tune of “L-O-V-E” by Nat King Cole, videos showed Meghan slicing strawberries into heart shapes and arranging them on a red swirl bagel with a pink spread. The footage showed quick peeks at Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet helping out in the kitchen.
The With Love, Meghan star recently opened up to PEOPLE about life at home in California, including their morning routine, in an exclusive interview.
“I’m up before my kids are, so I’m normally up at 6:30, and then I get them up and dressed for the day, and we go downstairs,” she said. “I love making breakfast for my family.”
“My husband and Archie both love fried eggs,” Meghan added. “There’s a lot of bacon around here. And then sometimes you don’t have time for all that, and you just put a frozen waffle in the toaster and call it a day. And there’s no shame in that either.”
Meghan Markle makes breakfast on St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, 2025. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex/Instagram
Not surprisingly, the Duchess of Sussex identified food as one of her love languages. “Even before I was a mom, I loved being able to nurture in that way,” she explained. “Some of my favorite childhood moments are the meals that my mom would make. She’d make a lot of soul food. I remember she’d taken a Thai cooking class, so every week we had Thai BBQ chicken and spring rolls.”
“I remember those flavors so well, and I want my kids to have those same formative memories of things that I cook,” she continued. “We call them Mama Meals, and those are the ones that I hope they come back to when they’re older, when they’re married, and they have their own kids, and they go, ‘Oh, let’s have a Mama Meal.’ And it’s the same roast chicken I’ve been making since they were little.”
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry at the Invictus Games in Canada on Feb. 9, 2025. Karwai Tang/Getty Images (1)
