Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announce the birth of their second child
The baby, a little girl named Lilibet "Lili" Diana, was born Friday morning in a hospital in Santa Barbara, California.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced Sunday, June 6, the birth of their second child, Lilibet "Lili" Diana, born Friday morning in a hospital in Santa Barbara, California. "It is with great joy that Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, welcome their daughter, Lilibet 'Lili' Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, to the world," said the press secretary of the couple.
The little girl was named Lilibet in tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, the parents said in a statement. His middle name, Diana, pays homage to Prince Harry's mother, Princess Diana, who died in a car accident in 1997.
The mother and child, who weighs almost 3.5 kilograms and ranks eighth in succession, "are in good health." "She is much more than anything we could have imagined," Meghan and Harry write of their son Archie, 2 years old.
Queen Elizabeth II, her son Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, as well as Prince William and his wife Kate "have been informed and are delighted with the news of the birth of a daughter to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex" , said a spokeswoman for Buckingham. The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, meanwhile addressed the couple his "congratulations".
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced in mid-February that they were expecting a second child by posting a black and white photo showing them all smiles at the foot of a tree, Meghan resting her hand on her round stomach. In November 2020, Meghan Markle revealed that she had a miscarriage in July, which she described as something that remains "taboo, covered with a sense of unwarranted shame, perpetuating a cycle of lonely mourning."
Set back from the royal family
Prince Harry, 36, sixth in the order of succession to the British crown, and Meghan Markle have withdrawn from the royal family, effectively since April 2020. A decision taken while the couple regularly denounced the harassment newspapers, particularly critical of the Duchess.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry settled in California, where they started a podcast, signed with content platforms including Netflix, and started a foundation, Archewell, to work for humanitarian causes.
Harry and Meghan, a 39-year-old American Métis actress, also gave a shocking interview to television host Oprah Winfrey in March, in which, among other explosive revelations, they reported that an unnamed member of the royal family had worried about the color of skin Archie would have, before his birth.
The statement had cast a chill between the couple and the rest of the family, Prince William having been prompted to react: “We are not a racist family at all. The queen said she was "saddened" by the difficulties the couple felt, claiming to take accusations of racism "very seriously" while wishing to treat them "in private".
Harry has since been able to speak with his brother, his father as well as, in a separate video call, with Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip before the latter's death, he told the host James Corden. The Queen of England and Prince Philip were then able to admire their great-grandson Archie via an interposed screen.
