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Prince Harry talks about fatherhood, the queen and Diana

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS » Prince Harry is opening up about his life at home and his recent surprise visit with Queen Elizabeth II, saying he and his wife, Meghan, had tea with the monarch and shared laughs.

“It was really nice to catch up with her,” Harry told NBC’S “Today” show. “She’s on great form. She’s always got a great sense of humor with me.”

Harry and Megan visited the queen at Windsor Castle on Thursday for their first joint visit to the U.K. since they gave up formal royal roles and moved to the U.S. more than two years ago.

Harry said like a lot of working parents, he and his wife found it hard to separate work and parenting — they have two children, Archie, who is almost 3, and 10-month-old Lilibet — during the pandemic.

“Archie spends more times interrupting our Zoom calls than anybody else,” he said, adding he also “gets us off them as well, which is a nice thing.”

Harry said he wanted to return to the United Kingdom with his kids for the

queen’s upcoming platinum jubilee, but warned that “security issues” could get in the way.

He said he was enjoying fatherhood: “I’ve always wanted to have my own kids, and now I’ve got two little people who I’m responsible for.”

He also said he has found himself thinking of his late mother even more: “I feel her presence in almost everything that I do now. But definitely more so in the last two years more than ever before, without question. So she’s watching over us.”

Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, speak during the Global Citizen festival on Sept. 25, 2021, in New York.