Inside Meghan Markle’s sweet pumpkin-picking video with Prince Harry, Prince Archie, and Princess Lilibet just in time for Halloween
When autumn finally settles in and the air turns soft and a little gold around the edges, there’s something magical about watching a family lean fully into the season. That’s the feeling Meghan Markle captured in a simple, homespun video from a pumpkin patch, where she and Prince Harry spent an afternoon with their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. The Duchess of Sussex, 44, stitched together a compilation that feels like a scrapbook come alive: quick smiles, a wobbling wagon, tiny hands reaching for big bright pumpkins, and that quiet background hum every parent recognizes—the sound of a day well spent.
Nothing about the clip is posed or polished. It doesn’t try to sell anything or make a grand statement. It’s just fall—dust on boots, a basket filling with orange, and the patient rhythm of choosing the “right” pumpkin. Archie, now old enough to inspect stems and make decisions with the seriousness of a five-star restaurant critic, moves with that purposeful energy you see in kids who’ve decided they’re on a mission. Lilibet, younger but no less sure, gravitates toward the pumpkins that look like storybook illustrations, her curiosity leading like a compass. Harry does what so many parents do at these places: he turns into a pack mule, hauling and steadying and laughing as the pile grows heavier and the choices grow more ambitious. Meghan’s lens lingers on the little things—mud tracks, straw on sleeves, the obvious pride that comes from finding the perfect one.
There’s always conversation around the Sussexes, and plenty of it. But this is the kind of moment that clears the noise for a while. Here are two parents raising two young children, marking the season the way so many families do. They’ve lived in California for several years now, building a life that tries to balance public work with private roots. A pumpkin patch checks both boxes at once—it’s local, ordinary, and very American; it’s also a reminder that rituals are how families stitch themselves together. For any child, a memory can start with something as simple as the weight of a pumpkin in their lap on the ride back to the car, or the way a parent steadies the wheelbarrow when it hits a rut. You can see those future memories forming frame by frame.
What also stands out is how calm and unhurried the moments feel. Meghan’s edits don’t rush. There’s time to watch Archie negotiate a pick or two, time to see Lilibet perch on the edge of a crate, time to catch Harry’s reflexive reach to keep a pumpkin from tumbling out. The clip doesn’t come with a lecture about balance or privacy. It shows balance instead: a Saturday-style afternoon for a globally recognized couple, made small and sweet by the simple act of letting their kids lead. Anyone who’s walked back to the car with straw in their socks knows the universal part of this story.
There’s also a certain poetry to the timing. Halloween hovers at the edge of the calendar, and the patch is a brief middle place between summer’s last warmth and winter’s first chill. Families head there to mark the turn, to pick something they’ll carry into their homes and turn into light. You can imagine this one ending the way so many do: a kitchen where newspaper covers the table, where the smell of pumpkin guts fills the air, where a parent draws the triangle eyes and everyone votes on the mouth. Maybe there will be roasted seeds and a debate about costumes, a test run of a lantern by the front door, and the proud photo that always follows.
Of course, the Sussexes are not just any family; they are public figures whose children have royal titles and ordinary bedtimes. That duality is part of what makes this small seasonal share resonate. It’s nice to see them in a setting that belongs to every parent: choosing, lifting, laughing, and calling it a day. The video shows no castles and no red carpets—only the steadying truth that even lives lived in headlines are built from moments like this.
Meghan and Harry have often said they want to create the kind of childhood they cherish for Archie and Lilibet, and the evidence is right there in a crate of pumpkins and a gentle afternoon. Whether you follow them closely or simply catch the occasional update, it’s hard not to smile at the ease of it. Fall is brief; little kids are little for even less time. You can feel the parents in that clip knowing it and holding on anyway—one more pumpkin, one more laugh, one more slow, golden hour.
