Meghan Markle has been ribbed for making the school run with a nanny on hand sound ‘akin to climbing Everest and curing cancer at the summit’.
Working parents have lampooned the Duchess of Sussex for her earnest description of her morning routine with Archie, five, and Lilibet, three.
Meghan also revealed she has used an ‘amazing’ nanny for five years – who steps in when she has early meetings – after she admitted ‘juggling’ work and motherhood had been ‘very overwhelming’.
The former Suits star, 43, told her friend Jamie Kern Lima that she wakes at 6.30am and after getting the children dressed, fed and to their two different schools, she isn’t back at her £11million Montecito mansion until two-and-half hours after getting up.
‘I know. That’s morning. That’s the morning’, she said breathlessly.
But commentator and journalist Will Kingston joked as he shared the clip: ‘Meghan describes the basic duties of parenting as if they are akin to climbing Everest and curing cancer at the summit’.
While some have derided those who have been unkind about her morning routine – urging critics to ‘leave her alone’ – it has also been the source of mirth for some mothers and fathers with schoolchildren, and jobs, themselves.
One working mum said frankly: ‘That’s the routine of all mums’. Another questioned how long Meghan’s routine was and said: ‘I have 4 kids. Never used a nanny. I’d prepare there lunchboxes the night before. It took 30 min to get them ready for school, 5 min to drive them there’.
A third said: ‘Does she not realise this is standard for most working women?’
Meghan appeared on The Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast in an episode released on Monday – and revealed her morning routine
