Royal fans gushed over Princess Lilibet’s long, flowing hair, as seen in the first new photo of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s daughter since 2022.
The photograph is one of six images in Harry, 40, and Meghan, 42,’s new Christmas card, which was published on Monday, December 16.
The Sussexes’ photo showed Lilibet, now three, running into her father’s arms, while her brother Prince Archie, five, headed straight for Meghan.
After the card was shared on X/Twitter, several people noted how much Lilibet’s hair had grown in two years, after her proud father revealed that she had been “blessed with her mother’s thick hair.”
Reposting the Sussexes’ festive card, one X user wrote: ‘Look at Lili’s long hair!’
Another comment read: ‘Look at Lilibet’s red waves! Perfect mix of H&M!’
Earlier this year, Prince Harry said Hello! magazine that both Lilibet and Archie had their mother’s thick hair, and the Duke joked that it wouldn’t be long until ‘Lili can sit in hers.’
Recalling her conversation with Harry at this year’s WellChild Awards in London, the magazine’s content director Sophie Vokes-Dudgeon wrote: “Archie and Lili have been blessed with their mother’s thick hair, he told us, modestly, while I marveled that it won’t be long until Lili can sit in hers.
Princess Lilibet’s last official photograph was released for her first birthday in June 2022, when the Sussexes gave the world a rare glimpse of their daughter.
The last photo of the Sussexes showed Princess Lilibet, now three, running into her father’s arms, while her brother Prince Archie, five, headed straight for Meghan.
Princess Lilibet’s last official photograph was released for her first birthday in June 2022, when the Sussexes gave the world a rare glimpse of their daughter.
Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Foundation’s season’s greetings showcased the highlights of the Sussexes’ year, including photos from their four-day visit to Colombia in August.
The card was shared on X/Twitter by the Sussexes’ long-time friend and royal reporter Omid Scobie.
Scobie, who wrote the couple’s biography Finding Freedom, captioned his post: “The Sussexes share the highlights of their year in the Archewell 2024 Christmas card.”
The card also included a personal message from the couple that read: “On behalf of the office of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Archewell Productions and Archewell Foundations.
“We wish you a very happy holidays and a prosperous new year.”
Several people were delighted to see “a glimpse of the kids” on the new card, with one person adding: “How nice to see a photo of your kids.”
‘They’re really redheads!’
Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Foundation’s season’s greetings showcased the highlights of the Sussexes’ year, including photos from their four-day visit to Colombia in August.
A photo of the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan, during a visit to a children’s school in Colombia in August
Another comment read: ‘Okay, of course I went straight to the kids’ photo! Redheads!! Like my grandchildren!! I love it!!’
A third user exclaimed: ‘OMG. There (sic) the babies have such red hair!!’
While their new ‘Christmas’ card celebrates some of the couple’s biggest moments, Harry and Meghan’s latest project, a Netflix documentary series about polo chic, has received scathing reviews from critics.
The five-part docuseries, which premiered on December 10, focuses on the preparations for the Polo World Cup in Florida and focuses primarily on players such as Adolfo and Poroto Cambiaso, Timmy Dutta and Nacho Figueras.
The documentary, part of Harry and Meghan’s £80million deal with Netflix, promised it would show “the true depth and spirit of the sport” as well as the “intensity of its high-stakes moments”.
However, upon its release, any hopes of Polo joining the ranks of great sports documentaries such as Disney+’s Welcome to Wrexham and 2020’s The Last Dance were quickly dashed, with critics largely panning the “boring” series. .
Receiving two stars or less out of five across the board, the show has been labeled “a tedious look inside posh polo” and a “mostly boring look at a sport in which very few people outside of elite circles have some particular interest.” .
Harry and Meghan, who served as executive producers on the series, make an appearance in the documentary in no time, and fans had to wait until episode five to see the couple.
Prince Harry places a kiss on Meghan’s forehead in a photo taken during their four-day visit to Colombia in August.
The Sussexes during their visit to Nigeria in May this year
Prince Harry and Meghan recently released their new Netflix docuseries about polo which has been widely criticized.
Prince Harry during a visit to the wards of the Nigerian military hospital in Kaduna
The Telegraph’s Ed Power noted that “there weren’t enough Sussexes to make this anything more than a boring indulgence about a rich person’s quest.”
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Prince Harry and Meghan will not be joining the royal family for Christmas this year as they have reportedly not been invited to the festivities.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have reportedly not received an invitation to the royal Christmas at Sandringham.
They are expected to spend the Christmas holidays in the United States with their children Archie and Lilibet.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex moved to Montecito, California, after they stepped down as senior members of The Firm in January 2020.
Meghan previously revealed how the Sussexes celebrate the holidays in the United States in an interview with Marie Claire, noting that the festivities are always “low-key.”
She said: “We always make sure we have something to do,” the duchess told the magazine. ‘Like any other family, you spend time enjoying a great meal and then what do you do? Playing, all the same, someone brings a guitar, fun.’
The former Suits actress also emphasized the importance of making “room at your table for your friends who don’t have family,” like feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who once joined the Sussexes’ Thanksgiving party.
Meghan, who married Harry in 2018, added that it is important to the couple that Archie and Lilibet experience the “magic” of festive traditions, such as putting out “carrots for the reindeer” at Christmas.