{"id":200785,"date":"2025-10-15T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200785\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:14:09","slug":"meghan-markle-reveals-dash-back-to-california-to-be-with-archie-and-lilibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/200785\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle reveals dash back to California to be with Archie and Lilibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle has revealed she briefly returned to California to see her young children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, amid her travels between various prestigious events.<\/p>\n<p>The Duchess of Sussex shared the touching disclosure while speaking at Fortune&#8217;s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington DC on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Her trip to the US capital was the cherry on top of a busy period for the duchess, who made headlines with her solo appearance at Paris Fashion Week. <\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Meghan was also in New York City with Prince Harry. To couple scooped up the \u201cHumanitarian of the Year\u201d award at the Project Healthy Minds&#8217; World Mental Health Day Gala. <\/p>\n<p>However, she did not travel directly from France to the US East Coast \u2013 instead extending her journey significantly by flying to the other side of the country to California.  <\/p>\n<p>Meghan&#8217;s short dash saw her spend just one day in Montecito to be with her children before boarding the six-hour flight to the Big Apple.  <\/p>\n<p>The duchess was quizzed on the diversion by Fortune&#8217;s Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell as they chatted in D.C.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve been all over the place, and we were talking backstage about how yes, you&#8217;ve been to Europe, you were just in New York\u2026 and you made it home for one day to see your kids?&#8221; Ms Shontell asked.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"3b21d\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"bb0288e402a08db270bbb82105d2e9d8\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%203674%202624'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/meghan-markle.jpg\" width=\"3674\" height=\"2624\" alt=\"Meghan Markle\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meghan Markle has revealed she made a quick stop in California to see Archie and Lilibet amid a bust week of traveling <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>GETTY<\/p>\n<p>Laughing, Meghan exclaimed: \u201cYes, I had to!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were talking about that because everyone said, &#8216;Oh, you must have gone from Paris straight to New York,&#8217; and I said, &#8216;No, I need to see my babies,\u2019\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo went back to California for a day and then continued on,\u201d the duchess explained. <\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in their conversation, Ms Shontell asked Meghan the renewal of she and Harry\u2019s Netflix deal, which was inked in August this year. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"25e35\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"2bc9c10fc37c776b1cdbe8407649a639\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202000%201500'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/meghan-markle-prince-archie-princess-lilibet.png\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Meghan Markle, Prince Archie, Princess Lilibet\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The duchess explained she made the extensive extra trip because she &#8216;had to&#8217; be with her children <\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>INSTAGRAM: MEGHAN<\/p>\n<p>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex originally signed a five-year deal with Netflix, after stepping down as working members of the Royal Family in 2020.  <\/p>\n<p>In August, Netflix announced the renewal of the couple&#8217;s creative partnership through Archewell Productions in the form of a multi-year, &#8220;first look deal for film and television projects&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>In her first public discussion of the deal since sharing that she was \u201cproud\u201d at the time, Meghan praised the first look arrangement.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My husband and I were in an overall deal with Netflix then, not dissimilar to Higher Ground and the Obamas&#8217; deal,\u201d she began.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"2c901\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"b355fdae38ddd8ce48b245ef57797c97\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201200%20800'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760494449_207_meghan-markle.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Meghan Markle,\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meghan was speaking as she attended Fortune&#8217;s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>GETTY<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce that had come to its term, the extension of it \u2014 which was such an incredible sign of the strength of our partnership \u2014 was now being in a first-look deal.  <\/p>\n<p>Meghan was keen to stress the \u201cexciting\u201d advantages of her new agreement with the streamer.   <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gives us flexibility to go to our partners first, then at the same time, shop content that might not be the right fit for Netflix but has a home somewhere else,\u201d she explained.   <\/p>\n<p>During the conversation, the duchess also shared her thoughts on the future of her lifestyle programme, With Love, Meghan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle has revealed she briefly returned to California to see her young children, Prince Archie and Princess&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,100,68053,46804,1852,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-200785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-meghan-markle","11":"tag-prince-archie","12":"tag-princess-lilibet","13":"tag-royal","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}