Meghan Markle Shows Off Her Acting Skills During Special Storytime at Children's Hospital Los Angeles

This isn't the first time the Duchess of Sussex, who authored a children's book, has connected with kids through stories

Storytime with Meghan Markle!

The Duchess of Sussex, 42, visited the Children's Hospital Los Angeles on March 21, where she led a Literally Healing session.

"Children were laughing and singing as The Duchess turned into character with every page as she read patient favorite books like Rosie the Riveter, Pete the Cat and I Saw a Cat," according to a statement. Meghan also helped children with STEAM activities connected to each book.

In a video of the visit, Meghan greeted the children as they gathered for the engaging reading time, excitedly showing the cover of Rosie Revere, Engineer and telling the group, "This is one of my favorites."

The mom of two — she shares a 4-year-old son, Prince Archie, and a 2-year-old daughter, Princess Lilibet, with Prince Harry — gave animated readings, adding voice inflections and gestures to go along with the stories.

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Children shouted out answers and sang along as Meghan read Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons. "This was a great choice, friends," she said as she closed the book and declared, "The end."

Meghan also posed with photos with children, talking to a young girl about how "neat" an instant camera image was.

This isn't the first time Meghan's storytelling skills were on display. To mark Archie's first birthday in May 2020, the Duchess of Sussex and her son appeared in a video where she read the book Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld.

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Archie's relationship with dad Prince Harry also inspired Meghan to author a children's book, The Bench.

"The Bench started as a poem I wrote for my husband on Father’s Day, the month after Archie was born," Meghan said in the press release from publisher Random House Children's Books. "That poem became this story."

Meghan dedicated the book to Harry and Archie: "For the man and the boy who make my heart go pump-pump," the dedication says.

As a guest on Brightly Storytime, the Duchess of Sussex read The Bench in a YouTube video in 2021, and she also shared her story with children at P.S. 123 Mahalia Jackson School in Harlem during a visit in September of the same year.

"I wrote this when we just had our little boy, and I haven't read it to any other kids but you!" she told the group, who sat together with Prince Harry to hear the reading.

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Children's Hospital Los Angeles' Literally Healing is a reading program that gifts families at the hospital more than 65,000 books annually and provides a unique opportunity to promote literacy. The storytime was part of Make March Matter, an annual fundraiser at the hospital that "unites celebrities, business and the greater community in support of its mission of creating hope and building healthier futures."

Since 2016, the campaign has raised more than $10 million for the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Celebrities are known to pop into Children's Hospital Los Angeles to cheer up patients, from Mark Hamill reading Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown during a virtual visit in 2021 to Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jake Gyllenhaal giving youngsters a special advanced screening of Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019.

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