I love that British-Canadian – Santa Barbarian royalty and its refreshing opposition to tradition. If the Duke and Duchess of Sussex aka Meghan Markle and Prince Harry do not break royal norms by choosing another baby walker (whip!), They turn their noses up at such time-wasting conventions as Ye Olde Live-In Nanny. The new royal biography Find freedom,by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, reveals the reason the Sussexes decided against full-time home care for their son, Archie.
“Harry and Meghan had agreed that they did not want their house to be full of staff. Harry had seen that situation at William’s home (the Cambridges had a housekeeper and a full-time, live-in nanny), and did not want the same for his own family, ‘Scobie and Durand write.
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Of course, renting a children’s horse is a fairly common practice, especially for celebs who can afford it. But having a cousin – en a housekeeper – do you live full time in your home? I mean, we get why Meghan and Harry brag about the idea, even though Kate and Will had already normalized it for this generation of royals.
“He and Meghan liked the idea that when they went to bed at night, it was just the three of them in the house,” Scobie and Durand add to the book. “Sociable and private.”
Sounds nice, honest. However, this decision did not mean that the Sussexes were averse to hiring a night nurse for those very busy early childhood days. And yet, even the night nurse did not last.
“Meghan and Harry were forced to leave the nurse in the middle of their second night of work because they were unprofessional and irresponsible,” Scobie and Durand wrote. Um, yikes?
“The new parents hired a nurse a second night, who did a good job, but because of the incident with the first nurse, neither of them felt comfortable getting a full sleep at night without checking on Archie regularly,” he said. continues the book. “After a few weeks, they decided to take the nights themselves and discharged themselves a night nurse.”
Although the word “robbed” certainly seems like a stretch, it makes sense that Meghan and Harry would have liked to have been through the era of the newborn nurse and go straight to that “cozy and private”, only domestic time. And we have the feeling that these freewheeling royals are only starting with their trendsetting and breaking of tradition.
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