Meghan Markle has revealed that she has had nanny for her children for five years - despite recently referring to her motherhood experience as "overwhelming". The 43-year-old recently shared on The Jamie Kern Lima Show podcast that she has enlisted help with Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3.

Meghan opened up about her typical morning routine before the nanny drops Archie and Lilibet to school each day and she "jumps into meetings". She also revealed that her children currently attend two different schools in California.

The confession came just weeks after the former actress said "I just need a break" as being a working mum was "incredibly overwhelming".

Talking to Jamie in the episode released on Monday, Meghan said: "This morning was different because Archie has a cold so he's home from school, but I get up at 6.30am and gives me a minute to - I wish I could say I woke up and meditated - I don't do that, I have the monitors on so I could hear both the kids.

"[Archie and Lilibet] get up at 7am so I give myself a little bit of time to either put on workout clothes brush my teeth, get both of them, up I get them dressed get them downstairs, make breakfast and then if I haven't done their lunch boxes the night before then do that. I love doing lunch boxes, it makes me very happy and writing a little note in their lunch boxes... If I don't have meetings in the morning then I try to do school drop off.

"They're at two different schools, so that's a big circuit. So from 6.30am in the morning on drop off mornings for me I'm not home till 9am. And then after that I'll just jump into meetings.

"And then on other days then I'll wake up and get them all set and then our amazing nanny who's been with us for five years, she'll take them to school for us and then, yeah, we always try to..."

She then added, "I know, that's morning, that's the morning, that gets you to 9am."

The Duchess of Sussex also revealed to Jamie that she sends "secret emails" to her son and daughter for them to read when they're older. She said: "I thought it was such a great time capsule to create for them and so I created for the kids these email addresses... that I will give them at some point. Before I go to bed, every night, I email them."

Rerferring to it as her "love language", Meghan also shared that she adds pictures of memory items - such as their report cards - into the emails.