The students couldn't believe their eyes when the royal couple appeared on screen. Photo / Supplied
The students couldn't believe their eyes when the royal couple appeared on screen. Photo / Supplied
A group of young poets were left awe-struck when none other than the Duke and Duchess of Sussex popped up in their online poetry class over the weekend.
Prince Harry and Meghan were surprise guests of honour for a Black History Month Zoom event organised by poetry group Get Lit, stopping by to share their own favourite poetry and listen to the students' work.
In a screenshot shared by Get Lit on Instagram, Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, are seen grinning from ear to ear as they introduce themselves to the participants in the free class.
The aspiring poets, aged between 13 and 19, are seen grinning and gaping in shock at the couple in response.
"We've saved the best for last! Guess who surprised our poetry class this weekend?!" the caption read.
"It was the best weekend EVER! Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, were magic and kind and interested in poetry!
"The Duchess even shared some of her favourite poetry lines. We are so grateful for their visit in honour of Black History Month. It goes down as most epic experience in Get Lit history!!!"
The students couldn't believe their eyes when the royal couple appeared on screen. Photo / Instagram
While the group did not reveal which poems the Duchess read from, Meghan has previously recited lines from A Note from the Beach by Matt Haig and quoted pieces from Maya Angelou.
Elsewhere on social media, the teacher who led the class thanked Meghan for encouraging his students to use their voices to inspire change.
"Soooo Prince Harry and Meghan dropped into my poetry class on Saturday and kicked it with the Get Lit Players for a multitude of minutes," poetry teacher Mason Granger wrote.
"My favourite part of it all was Meghan echoing so many sentiments we've talked about in class, about this particular moment in time/history to be a young person and the ripple effect of a single voice."
Several of the participants in the class also shared their gratitude for Meghan and Harry's involvement, describing the experience as "incredible".
The appearance comes as Meghan is reportedly exploring her own options as a published writer off the back of her stirring New York Times piece last year, with Vanity Fair reporting she has been approached with "lucrative offers from respectable publishing houses" to write a book.
In December, a source told the Mail on Sunday Meghan was securing legal protection which will allow her to publish books via her and Harry's non-profit organisation Archewell.
After the couple signed a whopping Netflix deal, Meghan is reportedly looking to writing a book as her next project. Photo / Getty Images
"Fiction is something she has always wanted to try her hand at, and she could be assured that anything she writes would sell well, regardless of its quality," the source reportedly said.
"Fiction, be it children's books or adult, would be a powerful way of conveying the messages of their woke brand."
She certainly wouldn't be the first royal to do so.
In 1980, Prince Charles published the children's book The Old Man Of Lochnagar – a story which he reportedly came up with to entertain his younger brothers Andrew and Edward on their holidays to Balmoral – to raise money for The Prince's Trust charity.
Sarah, Duchess of York also has her own series of books Budgie The Little Helicopter which were made into a television show in the late 1990s.
Before she married Prince Harry, Meghan also ran her own lifestyle blog The Tig – and she could also reportedly release "general feature magazines and printed periodicals" under the Archewell brand.
After announcing they were stepping down as senior royals, Meghan and Harry signed deals with Spotify and Netflix in 2020 – which were reportedly worth over $253 million.
It's been said that Meghan and Harry are "modelling themselves on the Obamas" – who have also published multiple best-selling books.
