Sussexes enjoy home-grown Thanksgiving

THE Duke and Duchess of Sussex celebrated their first Thanksgiving as a family in the US yesterday, sitting down to home-grown vegetables from the garden.

The couple were looking forward to a “quiet dinner” with their one-year-old son, Archie, at their home in Montecito, California, after the Duchess garnered praise for speaking out about the pain of suffering a miscarriage.

They were also joined by Doria Ragland, the Duchess’s mother, who lives in Los Angeles. A source said: “They are going to have a quiet dinner at home and are looking forward to celebrating their first American Thanksgiving in the States as a family.

“They plan to enjoy a home-cooked meal with traditional Thanksgiving dishes, including recipes made with fresh vegetables from their garden.”

The family is likely to have sat down to the traditional meal of roast turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, corn, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

It has been a tumultuous year since the Sussexes left the UK last November to spend their first Thanksgiving as a family-of-three in Canada. They published a Happy Thanksgiving message on Instagram and later released a photograph, taken that day, of a beaming Duke holding Archie.

At the time i t was billed as an extended, six-week break but the family would never return to live in the UK.

The Duchess was this week widely praised for publishing a deeply personal account of the miscarriage she suffered in July. Baby loss charities said the article, published in The New York Times, would send a “powerful message” to others who have gone through similar trauma.