Prince Harry embraces American Halloween with pumpkin carving

Prince Harry master the art of pumpkin carving for Halloween.

Sunday, Oct. 26 Meghan Markle shared a new video on his Instagram page highlights a family day of fall activities with their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. After the Duke and Duchess of Sussex family visited a pumpkin patch, where 6-year-old Archie ran through a corn maze and 4-year-old Lili rode in a wagon, they got to work creating jack-o’-lanterns in what appears to be the backyard of their home in Montecito, California.

Joined by what appears to be their friend Marcus Anderson and Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, Harry is seen concentrating as he maneuvers a piece out of a jack-o’-lantern’s mouth.

A clip on Meghan’s Instagram Stories shows a time-lapse video of Prince Harry, 41, carving another pumpkin, from drawing shapes for the eyes, nose and mouth with a marker and cutting out the pieces to wiping it off and showing the finished product.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved from the UK to their home state of California in 2020, and although Halloween is celebrated in both the US and the UK, Prince Harry may not have grown up carving pumpkins.

According to Historic Britainwhile “carving faces in hollowed-out vegetables such as turnips and turnips” is a tradition across the pond, they note that “the current use of pumpkins is a relatively modern innovation imported from the United States, and we can also extend the same debt of gratitude to our friends in America for the ‘quaint’ trick-or-treating tradition!”

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Prince Harry and Meghan, 44, have shared how Halloween has a special meaning in their relationship. In 2016, they attended an apocalypse-themed party in Toronto with Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank for the holidays — just before their romance went public.

In Netflix docu-series Harry and Meghanexplained Prince Harry that the palace’s communications secretary told him news of their relationship was about to break, inspiring him and Meghan to “pull the trigger on the fun grenade” and have one last carefree night out incognito.

The Duke of Sussex shed even more light on Halloween night in his memoirs, Spare. Harry revealed that the celebration was held at Soho House in Toronto, the city where Meghan lived during filming Costumesand that they invited ‘Euge and Jack’, Harry’s cousin and her then-boyfriend, to go out together on Halloween.

Harry dressed according to the theme and borrowed his friend Tom Hardy’s Mad Max suit while Meghan wore a camo tank with ripped black shorts and fishnet stockings.

“The party was loud, dark, full – perfect. Several people did double takes as Meg walked through the rooms, but no one looked twice at her dystopian date. I wished I could wear this disguise every day. I wished I could reuse it the next day and visit her on the set of Costumes“, he added in the book.

Meghan has also previously spoken about celebrating Halloween with her children. While displayed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in November 2021, the Duchess of Sussex summed up what Archie and Lilibet were for Halloween a few weeks before.

“We were home and we saw you, which was great,” Meghan told the host. “We wanted to do something fun for the kids, and then the kids weren’t into it at all! Archie was a dinosaur for maybe five minutes.”

“Not even five minutes,” interjected DeGeneres. “Finally Harry talked him into putting his head down. But Lili was a skunk.”

“She was a little skunk!” Meghan said, likening her look to “Flower from Bambi.”