Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce the birth of their daughter Lilibet Diana
The daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was born on Friday at 11:40 a.m. at Santa Barbara Hospital
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced this Sunday the birth in the California city of little Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Her daughter, Archie's younger sister, who turned two last May, came into the world at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara. Both she and her mother are well and at home, according to the couple in a statement in which they explained that they chose their name in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, the baby's great-grandmother and whose affectionate nickname by her family was Lilibet , and Harry's mother, Princess Diana, his "beloved late grandmother," according to the text, who died in a car accident in Paris in 1997.
Lilibet Diana, who is the queen's eleventh great-granddaughter and eighth in line to the throne, was born on Friday at 11:40 a.m. local time and weighed 3 and a half kilos. "On June 4, we were blessed with the arrival of our daughter, Lili," say the dukes in the statement, in which they thanked "the love and prayers" from people "from all over the world" and the "support constant "during" this very special moment for our family. " The couple took the opportunity to, on the website of their Archewell foundation, ask those who want to give their daughter a gift, to instead “support or learn more about these organizations that work for women and girls: Girls Inc., Harvest Home , CAMFED or Myna Mahila Foundation ».
Lili, who will not have a degree, and who will be known simply as Miss Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor, is the sovereign's first great-granddaughter to be born abroad, after her parents moved to North America in early 2020 in an attempt to move away, as they explained at the time, from the media pressure they suffered in the United Kingdom.
In fact, she will have dual citizenship, British and American, and both she and her brother will have the right to be a princess and a prince, both with the title of His Royal Highness, after the death of the Queen and when Prince Charles becomes king, since then they will have ascended in the line of succession to become children of a son of a monarch. Despite the family conflict that led to the departure of the Dukes of Sussex from the royal family and which the media baptized as the 'Megxit', the birth of the little girl is good news, especially after the death of the queen's husband, the Prince Philip, just two months ago.
The Duke of Edinburgh would turn 100 next Thursday and Harry maintained a very close relationship with him, so it was speculated that the girl would be called 'Pip' (after Philip, the English name of his late great-grandfather), as well as Lilibet or Diana, a name made up of the latter two which has finally been confirmed. Harry and Meghan announced that they were expecting their second child on Valentine's Day and it was in their explosive interview with American presenter Oprah Winfrey that they confirmed that she would be a girl. The next baby expected in the family and whose sex has not yet been revealed, will be the one expected by Princess Beatrice for next fall.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was one of the first to congratulate the couple through his Twitter account, in which he wrote: “Many congratulations to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on the birth of his daughter. ».
