When Archie got his first visit from Santa Claus in 2019, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry reportedly didn’t spend a princely sum on his presents. “For Christmas, they bought him books, building blocks, a baby ball pit,” an insider told Us Weekly. When Archie got a bit older, Meghan bought him a pool float shaped like a giant slice of pizza for a playdate. On her “Archetypes” podcast, she said that she purchased it online. “I kid you not, the one without pepperoni was a few dollars less than the one with pepperoni,” said the bargain-hunting duchess.
In 2021, one of Markle’s pals shared a since-deleted Instagram photo of Archie playing with another toy. Per Hello!, fans who saw the post identified it as a Montessori puzzle that challenges toddlers to place wooden carrots of different sizes into corresponding holes. It was priced at $22 on Amazon. While the Sussexes rarely share photos of their son and daughter themselves, Archie has still become a mini fashion influencer. When he was photographed wearing a $39 Boden raccoon coat, it quickly sold out, per the Daily Mail.
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One of the Sussexes’ expenditures on their kids is something most other parents don’t have to worry about. Ahead of Lilibet’s birth, they went on a web domain spending spree. “A significant number of domains of any potential names that were considered were purchased by their team to protect against the exploitation of the name,” a spokesperson for the parents explained to E! News.
