Meghan Markle Started Doing This “Calming” Activity While Pregnant with Prince Archie

In her new Netflix series With Love, Meghan, we learn a lot about Meghan Markle—including a “calming” hobby she picked up while pregnant with her first child, Prince Archie.

In the eight-episode series, which premiered March 4, Meghan can be seen at one point visiting a flower shop to pick out flowers for an arrangement she’s making ahead of a lunch with some of her friends. Speaking of her friends, many of the Duchess of Sussex’s friends threw her a baby shower in 2019, ahead of Archie’s birth that May. She shared on With Love, Meghan that she learned the skill of flower arranging at the baby shower, a ritual she said she still enjoys at the end of the day.

“I learned a lot of this when I was pregnant with my son, Archie,” Meghan said of flower arranging. “My girlfriends threw a baby shower for me, and one of the things we did was learn flower arranging. I started to find this really calming and meditative, so when I have a little bit of time at the end of the day, I do this.”

“I have a glass of wine and just enjoy it,” she continued, making mention that music is always a part of it: “I listen to a lot of ‘70s soft rock and a lot of yacht rock and a lot of soul,” she said. “And then also French dinner party music.”

That’s not where Meghan’s hobbies end, it turns out. The series sees Meghan take part in many of her hobbies—gardening! Cooking! Baking! Beekeeping!—but viewers also learn while watching With Love, Meghan that Meghan and her girlfriends Victoria Jackson, Tracy Robbins, and Jennifer Rudolph Walsh also like to play the game mahjong together.

“My girlfriends are coming over,” Meghan said in one episode. “We have all started to learn mahjong together in the past few months.” She added, “What I’ve come to really love about mahjong is that the game itself is really fun, but what was so great was the idea of learning something new with your friends, together.”

She continued, “And then recognizing that mahjong becomes the background of the expansion of friendship. It’s the feeling of community. It’s become special for all of us. We’re all at such different chapters in our lives. It's amazing that it’s just as meaningful for me as it is for Victoria or Tracy or Jennifer. We all really like it.”

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