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Jennifer Newton

Prince Harry reveals son Archie shares his cheekiness and loves questioning everything

Prince Harry has given a sweet update on his young son Archie and revealed that the toddler shares his sense of cheekiness.

Harry sat down for a tell-all chat with NBC TV host Hoda Kotb, which has been broadcast today on American morning show Today.

In the interview, filmed during the Invictus Games in the Netherlands, Harry talked about the competition as well as about his secret meeting with his grandmother the Queen and life with wife Meghan Markle and their children in California.

He also chatted about the pitfalls of working from home with Archie, who is almost three, and 10-month-old Lilibet in the house.

Prince Harry during his interview on the Today programme in the US (TODAY)

Harry admitted: "This whole working from home stuff is not all it’s cracked up to be, certainly post-COVID, because it’s really hard.

"But when your kids and you are in the same place, it’s really hard to separate the work from them because they kind of overlap. So, I mean, Archie spends more time interrupting our Zoom calls.”

“But he often gets us off them, as well, so that’s also a nice thing,” he added.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with their two children Archie and Lilibet (alexilubomirski/Instagram)
Archie with mum Meghan (Internet Unknown)

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Hoda then asked if Archie shares his dad's sense of cheekiness, and Harry proudly said he does.

He explained: "Yeah, and I think so. I always try and keep that. I think that, the cheekiness is something that keeps you alive."

Hoda also asked Harry what his favourite part of fatherhood was.

And he said: "All of it. The chaos, the learnings, the reminder of just every element of yourself, your soul, right?

"Archie at the age he is at is asking all of the questions. He's always asking those questions of the whys - he is into the why stage, why this, why that.

"And instead of just trying to move it on, I give him the most honest answer that I can and then it goes on and on and on until he is satisfied and then that's it, it is done.

Harry admitted he still didn't know if he would be returning to the UK for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations (Getty Images)

"I love it, I love every part of it. I've always wanted to be a dad and wanted to have my own kids and now I have two little people who I'm responsible for."

However, he admitted it was still up in the air whether he would bring Archie, Lilibet and Meghan to the UK for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June.

When asked if he would be returning, he said: "I don't know yet. There's lots of things: security issues and everything else.

"So this is what I'm trying to do, trying to make it possible that, you know, I can get my kids to meet her."

Meanwhile, Hoda also asked Harry if he misses his family, who are all in the UK.

He told her: "Yes I think especially over the last two years, everybody has missed their family and that ability to get home and see them, of course.."

However, when she followed up by asking if he specifically missed his brother Prince William and dad Prince Charles, he quickly changed the subject, before talking about missing his children Archie and Lilibet back home in California.

He responded by saying: "Look I mean for me, at the moment, I'm here focused on these guys and these families and giving everything and giving 120 per cent to them.

"Giving them an event of a lifetime is my focus here and when I leave here, when I go back, my focus is my family, who I miss massively, they are two little people."

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