Meghan Markle has spoken about being a mother while praising a children’s hospital during a gala in Los Angeles last night.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, was at the event without her husband, Prince Harry, on Saturday and revealed that she was “happy to be there to support” LA Children’s Hospital.
“The work they do is from another world,” he commented.
“And I think from my point of view as a mother, no one wants to be in a position where you need to go to a place like this, but if you have to, the best place in the world you could go would be Children’s Hospital LA.
“And I have close friends who still have their kids there going through treatments from high school, close mom friends who are now having their kids.”
Meghan Markle spoke about being a mother and praised a children’s hospital during a gala in Los Angeles last night
Meghan, who shares Archie, five, and Lilibet, three, with the Duke of Sussex, said “the staff are amazing”.
He added: “I think the amount of work they do for families who really can’t afford this level of care should never be overlooked.”
Elsewhere at the event, he enjoyed a sweet moment when he told a child “it’s past your bedtime.”
Footage shows the Duchess greeting a family at last night’s event before joking with a young child about staying up so late.
“It’s probably past your bedtime,” Megan said as she addressed the boy, who was being held by his mother.
And he added: ‘How old are they? Oh, very close to our children. Three and five.
Meghan has spoken many times about her experiences with motherhood.
In May, she said she fulfilled her dream of being a mother when spoke about her ‘sweet, very talkative children’ during the second day of her Nigerian tour with Harry.
Meghan, who shares Archie, five, and Lilibet, three, with the Duke of Sussex, said “the staff are amazing”.
The Duchess of Sussex, 43, was at the event without her husband, Prince Harry, on Saturday and revealed that she was “happy to be there to support” LA Children’s Hospital.
The Duchess caught everyone’s attention last night when she once again wore a red Carolina Herrera dress at the LA Children’s Hospital gala.
Meghan (pictured) enjoying a chat with her friend Kelly McKee at last night’s event in downtown Los Angeles.
Meghan and Kelly held hands as they posed for photos at last night’s children’s event in Los Angeles.
The duchess was speaking in a Women in Leadership event that she co-hosted with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization.
Meghan told the audience how much she loves being a mother, but admitted that balancing her family and career posed its own challenges.
During the talk, Meghan was asked how she juggled being a mother with her career and she responded: “I love being a mother.”
Despite her friend and mentor telling her more than ten years ago that she would never be able to balance the demands of motherhood and her job, the duchess said she enjoys being a mother and her priorities are constantly changing.
During the panel discussion, Meghan said the “balance” in her life has changed over the years and looks different than it did ten years ago, before she got married and had Archie and Lilibet.
Meghan pictured posing for photos with CHLA President Paul Viviano at the event in Los Angeles last night
Meghan pictured smiling with Viviano, CHLA president, at the children’s gala on Saturday night.
Meghan spent last night greeting young fans while attending the event in downtown Los Angeles.
The duchess went single to the event at the LA Live event platform in downtown Los Angeles while her husband, Prince Harry, spent the night of his 40th birthday walking with some friends.
The couple have made a number of separate plans, including Harry’s solo trips to London and Lesotho in recent weeks.
She said: ‘What I think that means now is that that balance will always change for you. That balance, what seemed balanced ten years ago, is going to change.”
It comes as Meghan turned heads when she once again wore a striking red Carolina Herrera dress at Saturday’s children’s event.
She previously wore the stunning dress to a 2021 gala in New York City to celebrate the military in the run-up to Veterans Day in the US and Armistice Day in Britain.
He greeted young fans before preparing for a star-studded night featuring a performance by Demi Lovato and appearances by hosts Kaley Cuoco, Jamie Lee Curtis and Colin Hanks.
It comes after Harry and Meghan made a series of separate plans, including Harry’s solo trips to London and Lesotho in recent weeks.
The duke has appeared at ten solo engagements in the past 15 days without his wife as he embarked on a “quasi-royal tour” of three countries including New York, London and Lesotho.
It was also reported that Meghan was unable to attend a charity event she was due to attend with Prince Harry because she was “sick.”
And when Prince Harry was joking with talk show host Jimmy Fallon in New York, movie star George Clooney – invited to their wedding in 2018 – was hosting a humanitarian awards ceremony in the Big Apple – and Harry was noticeably absent.