Archie and Lilibet’s life away from the spotlight: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle share rare details about children

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex charmed on their three-day trip to Nigeria, which largely focused on Prince Harry’s Invictus Games.

Harry and Meghan travelled to the west African country without their children, Prince Archie, five, and Princess Lilibet, two, but the youngsters were never far from their parents’ mind.

On the first day of their mini tour, the Sussexes visited the Lightway Academy in Abuja, a school supported by Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Foundation where they met a group of kindergarteners who danced and sang songs for them.

Harry asked them: “Is singing and dancing your favourite class?”

“That’s Lili’s favorite class,” Meghan said of their daughter, who turns three on 4 June. “Maybe it’s all the jumping around.”

The Duke and Duchess were then taken to a STEM class where a group of youngsters showed the robot cars they’d created, with one proudly saying his was called M-Bot.

As Harry asked the class whether they enjoyed electronics, Meghan revealed that their son Archie liked construction.

Lilibet calls Meghan “Mama”
At the school, Harry and Meghan spoke about the importance of opening up about your mental health.

The Duchess told the class: “We all have our story. And there’s no shame in any single one of your stories. Even on the hardest days or darkest days, everything is a pillar of your strength by each of you being there. Your teachers see that in you. And we see that in you.”