Meghan reveals ‘low-key’ Thanksgiving of playing guitar and family games

Duchess of Sussex says ‘every year it gets better’ as her children Archie and Lilibet grow up

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The Duchess of Sussex has described her family’s “low key” plans for Thanksgiving, revealing they will “have a great meal” and play games.
The Duchess, 43, said now that her children, Archie, five, and Lilibet, three, were old enough to appreciate the joy of the season, “every year it gets better”.
“I love the holidays,” she said.
“At first, I think as a mom with children you’re just enjoying having them there, but they’re not understanding everything that’s happening yet. But now we’re at the age where I just can’t wait to see it through their lens every year.”
The Duchess told Marie Claire magazine that being close to her mother, Doria Ragland, was “great”. She said it was important her children experienced the “magic” of traditions such as “great recipes” at Thanksgiving and putting out “carrots for the reindeer” at Christmas.
She added: We’re always making sure we have something fun to do.
“Like any other family you spend time having a great meal and then what do you do? Play games, all the same stuff, someone brings a guitar – fun.”
The Duchess said that she and the Duke of Sussex always made sure there was “room at the table” for friends who do not have family, revealing that one year they were joined for Thanksgiving by Gloria Steinem, the feminist campaigner.
She was hosting a dinner with Afghan women who had resettled in California, and were being supported by the Sussexes’ Welcome Project, which helps create communities for women from Afghanistan and provides resources.
She said she wanted to reconnect with the women, many of whom she had met at a cooking event in February, in the run-up to Thanksgiving, when they might be missing home.
“You find comfort in things you know, but you find so much community and connection in things you don’t know, as well,” she said.
On communities coming together, she added: “Whatever cultures are different, whatever traditions are different, there’s actually so much we have in common.
“There’s a lot of joy in discovering each other’s new rituals too.”
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