Meghan Markleis now a best-selling children’s author!
The Duchess of Sussex’s illustrated bookThe Benchhas officially reached No. 1 onThe New York TimesBestseller list for children’s picture books since its release last week. Meghan, 39, thanked fans for “supporting me in this special project” in a new post on her andPrince Harry’sArchewell Foundation websiteon Wednesday.
“While this poem began as a love letter to my husband and son, I’m encouraged to see that its universal themes of love, representation and inclusivity are resonating with communities everywhere,” she said. “In many ways, pursuing a more compassionate and equitable world begins with these core values.”
Meghan continued, “Equally, to depict another side of masculinity — one grounded in connection, emotion, and softness — is to model a world that so many would like to see for their sons and daughters alike.”
Meghan Markle’s new children’s book, The Bench.Random House Books for Young Readers
This isn’t the first book project that Meghan has been involved in to become a best seller.Together: Our Community Cookbook, which Meghan wrote the forward to in 2018, also reached thetop of the nonfiction chartson Amazon andThe Bookseller.
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Meghan isn’t the first royal to debut a children’s book. In 1980,Prince CharlespublishedThe Old Man of Lochnagar, which tells the story of an old man who lives in a cave in the cliffs surrounding the royal estate at Balmoral in Scotland, where the Queen spends her summer vacation. Sales from the book went to the royal’s charity, The Prince’s Trust.
Meghan is a longtime book lover and even talked about the sweet tradition ofpassing the love of reading onto your children.
source: people.com
