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The Royal Family: Prince Harry's 'self care' including meditating every day

Prince Harry has shed some light on what the daily routines for his two children, Archie and Lilibet, look like.

The Duke of Sussex lives in California with his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, and their two children - Archie Harrison and Lilibet Diana - after moving there in March 2020.

On Thursday, February 3, the Prince appeared on his close friend's, Serena Williams, live stream, to discuss 'mental fitness' alongside the tennis superstar and the founder of mental health startup, BetterUp, Alexi Robichaux, according to OK! Magazine.

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During the discussion surrounding mental health, Harry, 37, revealed that he has previously 'experienced burnout', and feels like he has to meditate every day to ameliorate it.

When it came to the topic of 'self care', the Prince shed some light on what his family's routine is like, including Archie's school life and Lilibet's naptimes.

Speaking to his peers, Harry said: "Even if you do have 15 minutes slate of white space, I now put in about half an hour or 45 minutes in the morning when I'm like, 'Okay, one of the kids has gone to school, the other one is taking a nap', there's a break in our programme."

Harry married Meghan in a heavily-watched ceremony at Windsor Castle in May 2018, and the couple welcomed their first child, Archie, into the world nearly a year later.

In March 2020, the family-of-three relocated to Montecito, California, shortly after Harry and Meghan made the decision to step down as working members of the Royal Family. Just over a year after the move, in June 2021, three became four with the birth of Lilibet.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex on their official 16-day Autumn tour visiting cities in Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand in 2018 (Samir Hussein/WireImage)

With the family separated from the rest of their royal relatives in the UK, Lilibet is yet to meet her cousins, whilst Archie has not seen them in a very long time.

But according to one insider, Harry is seeking to correct this with a family visit to the UK.

Speaking to US Weekly, the source said: "Harry has his heart set on returning to the UK to see the Queen with Meghan, Archie and Lilibet, but that will only happen if the government takes the appropriate measures to protect his family.

“He refuses to put them at risk. Their safety comes before anything else.”

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, with Archie shortly after his birth in 2019. The family relocated to the US in March 2020. (WPA Pool/Getty Images Europe)

Harry has been in a legal fight to pay for UK police protection recently, as he is seeking a judicial review against the refusal of the Home Office to let him personally pay for police protection whilst he is in the country.

The Prince and his family have a private security team stateside, but has said that the team does not have the adequate jurisdiction abroad.

Harry’s representative said: “that security cannot replicate the necessary police protection needed whilst in the UK... In absence of such protection, Prince Harry and his family are unable to return home.”

In addition to seeing his grandmother, The Queen, during his visit to his home country, Prince Harry apparently has wishes for his children to meet, and bond with, their cousins - Prince George, eight, Princess Charlotte, six, and Prince Louis, three.

“Harry and Meghan are doing everything they can to make the world a better place and feel it would be wrong to rob their children of the opportunity of getting to know their cousins,” the source said.

“It’s obviously difficult because of the distance factor, so Harry sweetly organized a special Zoom call with Prince William so that the cousins could get to see each other.”

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