Now, two years later, Meghan and Harry have added a second child to their family — daughter Lilibet Diana was born in early June — and that poem is a children’s book.
The Bench is a series of vignettes — fathers and their sons share a bench while they drink apple juice, wait for the bus, look at the stars, and put on their shoes.
“I often find, and especially in this past year, I think so many of us realized how much happens in the quiet,” she says.
“I wanted him to just try something a little bit new and work in watercolor,” says Meghan.
But the rest of the book shows all kinds of families — something that was important to both the author and the illustrator.
“That page is true to form for him and his family,” Meghan says.
“It’s a love story,” she says.