Meghan Markle reads 'Duck! Rabbit!' to Archie on his first birthday and it's absolutely delightful

If you're in need of a good cheering up, watch this.
By Rachel Thompson  on 

If you're in need of a good cheering up, then I've got just the thing for you.

In celebration of their son Archie's first birthday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, have shared a sweet new video of story time.

In the clip, Meghan curled up with a book — Amy Krouse Rosenthal's 2009 book Duck! Rabbit! to be precise — and read to Archie, while Harry filmed the delightful moment. Baby Archie wriggled and intermittently turned pages as Meghan did an enthusiastic reading of the tale.

The video was shared to Instagram by charity Save The Children UK as part of their appeal to raise money for vulnerable families hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. As part of the fundraising campaign, celebrities like Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Nicholas Hoult, Jude Law, and Eddie Redmayne have also shared videos of themselves reading children's books.

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Here's the adorable video of Archie and Meghan:

And here's some of the other stories Save The Children UK has posted for the fundraising campaign, including Nicholas Hoult reading Mini Rabbit Not Lost by John Bond, and Eddie Redmayne reading Zog by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler.

They're incredibly sweet.

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Good job, team! And happy birthday, Archie!

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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Based in the UK, Rachel writes about sex, relationships, and online culture. She has been a sex and dating writer for a decade and she is the author of Rough (Penguin Random House, 2021). She is currently working on her second non-fiction book.


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