The Duchess of Sussex has revealed how spending nearly three weeks away from her children left her “not well”.

Meghan Markle, who made the confession in the first episode of he second season of her Netflix show With Love, Meghan, did not elaborate any further.

But there will be speculation she was referring to when she and husband Prince Harry unexpectedly remained in Britain after the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022.

In the new eight-episode series of her lifestyle and cooking show, which was released on Tuesday (US time), Meghan opens up about what she misses most about Britain, confesses she dislikes baking, and tells how she produced a “truly terrible” roast chicken on the night Harry asked her to marry him.

The former Suits star sympathises with Queer Eye star Tan France, who explains he gets heartbroken if away from his two young children for more than a couple of days, as she discusses her own separation from children Archie and Lili.

“Oh I know. The longest I went without being around our kids was almost three weeks,” a serious-looking Meghan replies, nodding and looking up at the ceiling.

“I was … not well.”

The Duke of Sussex has also written in memoir Spare of the “difficult days” after the late queen’s death, how he and Meghan were separated from Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet for “longer than we’d ever been”.  Harry wrote that when the family was finally reunited in California “for days and days we couldn’t stop hugging the children, couldn’t let them out of our sight”.

The King and the royal family were mourning the loss of Elizabeth II, the nation’s longest-reigning monarch, in September 2022, against the backdrop of a troubled relationship with Harry and Meghan.

Harry said later in an ITV interview that there was a “really horrible reaction from my family members” when the queen died, with “the briefings and the leakings and the planting”.

He flew solo to Balmoral, in a last-minute dash to try to see his grandmother before she died, after his brother the now-Prince of Wales ignored his texts. Harry claimed in his book that Meghan remained in Windsor after the now-King told him not to bring her to Scotland.

Harry and Meghan with children Archie and Lilibet. Photo: Instagram

The Sussexes had left Archie, then three, and one-year-old Lili, being cared for by Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland in Los Angeles, after travelling to Britain for a charity event early in September. They went on to Germany for another event before returning to London.

They ended up having to extend their stay when Harry’s grandmother died on September 8. They made public appearances – including greeting mourners with Prince William and the Princess of Wales at Windsor despite the brothers’ rift – before attending Elizabeth’s September 19 funeral.

-AAP