Why Meghan Markle will refuse to spoil her child

WITH Meghan Markle and Prince Harry expecting their first child next year there’s no doubt the parents are keeping busy with plans on how to raise their baby.

As Harry’s child, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s offspring will be considered a ‘minor’ royal which means they will probably be expected to work and (heaven forbid) may not be given a prince or princess title.

But it’s a future mum-to-be Meghan appears to be already anticipating, according to one palace insider.

Royal commentator Omid Scobie, who was one of a handful of press that joined Meghan and Harry on their recent tour, told US Weekly the couple already has a “game plan” to ensure their children aren’t spoiled.

“Meghan will take her kids on a subway. They’ll have chores, and jobs one day,” Scobie told the magazine. “They won’t be spoiled.”

The plan is all part of Meghan’s bid to “bring up children who know the values of normal things in life”, Scobie added.

It’s been previously reported Meghan and Harry will follow the “Zara and Peter Philips route” by refusing royal titles for their children.

The decision meant that Princess Anne’s children have lived much more normal lives and been left out of the spotlight more than their cousins.

By comparison, Prince Andrew asked the Queen to give his daughter Beatrice and Eugenie royal titles when they were born.

“That word ‘normal’ looms very large for Harry and Meghan when it comes to their child’s future,” a source told The Sunday Times last month.

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Another source told Entertainment Tonight the couple were inspired by Harry’s late mother Diana, the Princess of Wales.

Before her death in 1997 Diana worked hard to give her sons as many normal experiences as possible, which included taking them to theme parks and letting them eat McDonald’s.

“Meghan and Harry, who want to use their platform and profile to further their humanitarian and charitable interests, want to pass on those same values to their children,” an insider told ET.

“They plan to spend a considerable amount of time in their Cotswold home and (Meghan’s mother) Doria will have a prominent role in their family as the children’s grandmother.”

Meghan has spoken previously of her grounded upbringing in Los Angeles, revealing how from early on in her life her mother Doria reminded her of the less fortunate.

Doria, a social worker and yoga instructor, made Meghan volunteer in soup kitchens for the homeless when she was a teenager.

“I started working at a soup kitchen in Skid Row of Los Angeles when I was 13 years old, and the first day I felt really scared. I was young, and it was rough and raw down there, and though I was with a great volunteer group, I just felt overwhelmed,” Meghan wrote in a chapter for book The Game Changers.

“I remember one of my mentors (Mrs Maria Pollia) told me that ‘life is about putting others’ needs above your own fears’. That has always stayed with me.”

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