All We Need to Know About Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s two Children: Archie and Lilibet!
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle live in California with their two children Archie and Lilibet.
- The two children recently received their royal titles from King Charles III.
- While Archie was born in the UK, Lilibet was born in California.
Know more about Archie and Lilibet
Archie and Lilibet, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s two kids are royally cute.
After their lavish wedding in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in England, the couple became parents in May 2019.
Archie, the couple’s first child spent his first year in London. He even accompanied his parents during their royal tour to South Africa.
Harry and Meghan then settled in Montecito, California in the summer of 2020 after leaving the Royal Family. After resigning from their royal roles, the two welcomed their daughter Lilibet in June 2021.
Between her two kids’ arrival, the former Suits actress announced she suffered a miscarriage. She wrote an emotional essay for the New York Times, writing,
“Losing a child means carrying an almost unbearable grief, experienced by many but talked about by few,”
Buckingham Palace announced Meghan’s first pregnancy in October 2018. In her Netflix docuseries, she recalled,
“It was just, ‘Dear baby, we’re so excited to meet you one day,’”
“‘Here’s an announcement that went out about you today.’”
Archie was then born the following year at the private Portland Hospital in London. The baby was christened in 2019. Harry chose his former nanny Tiggy Pettifer and family friends Charlie van Straubenzee and Mark Dyer as his son’s godparents.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the couple shared their son’s milestones with Markle telling a publication,
“He is just so busy, he is all over the place,”
“He keeps us on our toes.”
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Lilibet got her name from the Queen and Princess Diana
Harry and Meghan confirmed they were expecting their second child in February 2021 by sharing a photo of a sweet baby bump.
Four months later, the baby arrived at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in California. The couple named their daughter Lilibet after the late Queen’s childhood nickname.
Lilibet did get a chance to meet her namesake during Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee celebration in June 2022. It was just three months after the Queen’s death. She was 96.
Lili, as the couple lovingly calls her was christened in March 2023. Actor Tyler Perry is her godfather. Harry and Meg stayed at the actor’s mansion when they first moved to California.
Harry thinks Archie looks like Meghan and believes that Lili is more like his late mother, Princess Diana.
He told in their 2022 docuseries,
“She’s very Spencer-like,”
“She’s got the same blue eyes … golden-reddish hair.”
The former military pilot also revealed that Lili is obsessed with her older brother and the latter gets irritated when she refuses to give him space.
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