While Meghan Markle's book The Bench was just released to coincide with Father's Day, it turns out that the real-life bench, which acted as the inspiration for the story, was a previous gift to Prince Harry.
In a special interview with NPR (which is her first public interview since that internet-breaking Oprah special), Markle revealed that she gave the bench to the Duke of Sussex for Father's Day in 2019, on the year that their son, Archie, was born.
“As most of us do, you go: 'What am I going to get them as a gift?'” Markle said. “And I thought I just wanted something sentimental and a place for him to have as a bit of a home base with our son.”
So, the Duchess of Sussex chose the bench as this marker, and she made the gift even better by attaching an original poem of hers to the back of it. Now, that verse has transformed into Markle's #1 New York Times bestselling book.