A video of revealing she dreamed of growing up in a nuclear family with a “happy dad and his loving wife” as her parents were separating went viral on .

The Duchess of Sussex wrote a poem aged 12 about how she experienced her parents’ divorce and during her show. A clip of the heartbreaking moment where it was liked over 1.2 million times and viewed more than 6.9 million times after being posted with the caption: “Meghan’s poem.”

During the original episode of Harry & Meghan, which dropped in December 2022, she said: “Even though my parents co-parented well, you think about how that informs what you grow up to be and what you want.

“It’s so funny, when I was 12, I was at Immaculate Heart [high school], and one of the assignments was to write a poem about your life. And I remember this poem to this day.”

Meghan read the poem out loud: “Two houses, two homes, two kitchens, two phones, two couches where I lay, two places that I stay. Moving, moving here and there, from Monday to Friday I’m everywhere.

“Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that bad, but often times it makes me sad. I want to live that nuclear life, with a happy dad and his loving wife,” the duchess said.

“A picket fence, a shaggy dog, a fireplace with a burning log, but it’s not real, it’s just a dream, I cannot cry or even scream. So here I sit with cat number three, Life would be easy if there were two of me.”

One reply read: “I started crying because I know how real this was for me when I was a child.”

Another comment added: “Those of you with divorced parents come here I want to hug you I’m so sorry for what you’re going through.”

A third fan wrote: “Having divorced parents it’s better then seeing a loveless marriage and fights all the time.”

Meghan and Thomas Markle have become estranged after he staged photos with a paparazzi photographer for money in the run-up to her wedding and then .

The saga led to him having two heart attacks and pulling out of attending her wedding, where Meghan was instead walked down the aisle by .

However, Meghan did at points speak positively about her father in her Netflix show, saying: “I was a daddy’s girl my whole life, and I was with him a lot.

“But I do remember also feeling lonely when I was a kid and wanting to have more people around,” Meghan added.

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