Finally, the big day has arrived. He principle Harry e Meghan Markle they announced the birth of their second child, a little girl named Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. The choice is clear: the couple wanted to pay homage both to the duke’s mother, Lady Diana Spencer, but also to the Queen Elizabeth, whose nickname in the family is Lilibet.
“It is with great joy that Prince Harry and Meghan the Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcome their daughter, Lilibet” Lili “Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, to the world,” the royal press officer said in a statement. “Both mother and daughter are in good health, and they are at home.” The news came directly from the parents in the United States, and not from Buckingham Palace, as would have been normal if the two “rebel” and self-exiled dukes in California had remained in London.
Meghan Markle has given birth to a daughter with Prince Harry! https://t.co/GWrrL50FCV
– HollywoodLife (@HollywoodLife) June 6, 2021
The baby was born last Friday at 11.40 in a private clinic, the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, not far from the couple’s sumptuous residence (worth 16 million euros) in Montecito. The baby weighs in at “7 pounds and 4 ounces” (about 3.3 kilos). As for the name, the spokesperson underlined the homage to Lilibet’s “beloved grandmother”. Since this is not a real name, but a diminutive, it is likely that the girl will only be called “Lili”. Legend has it that it was Elizabeth’s father, King George VI, who began to call her that, because the current queen, when she was little, crippled her name. The king said of his daughters: “Lilibet is my pride and Margaret my joy.” The second name was chosen to celebrate Lady D. “The middle name – specify the dukes – was chosen to honor his beloved grandmother who died, the Princess of Wales”.
For Meghan and Harry this is the second child, after little Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, who is two years old. “The Duke and Duchess give thanks for their good wishes and prayers, as they savor this special moment for their family.” Eleventh great-granddaughter of the Queen, eighth in line of succession to the throne, Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor will therefore take as her name the nickname with which the family members called Elizabeth who as a child could not pronounce her name. «On June 4th we were blessed with the arrival of our daughter Lili – Harry and Meghan wrote again on their Archewell website – it is much more than we could imagine, and we are grateful for the love and prayers we have received from everything the world”.
Harry and Meghan had revealed in the course of the now famous interview with Oprah Winfrey that they would have a baby girl. For the first photos of the newborn, most likely, we will have to wait: when Archie was born, the child was kept in the shelter of the cameras for a long time.
Someone notes that the little American was born without an official title and yet remains eighth in the line of succession to the crown of Elizabeth II, placing herself behind her grandfather Charles, uncle William (older brother of
Harry), the three children of this and his wife Kate, and behind his little brother Archie, who came into the world in May 2019 in London. “Lili”, however, is immediately in front of Prince Andrew, or the second son (who fell out of favor due to his acquaintances) of the queen and Philip of Edinburgh, who died last March a few days after his 100th birthday. Also for this reason, it will be difficult for the royal family to completely cut ties with the “relatives of America”, despite the hype about Meghan and Harry’s broadcasts, and in particular the accusations of racism aimed at relatives from overseas.
With a statement, “the firm” (ie the Royal Family) made it known that “the Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge”, namely Ellisabetta, Carlo, Camilla, William and Kate, “have been informed and are delighted to learn of the birth of the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.” The royal baby is always the royal baby. Congratulations also from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, from the leader of the opposition, Labor leader Keir Starmer, from the Diana Award, the foundation that carries on the memory of Lady D, the Wellchild Charity, and many others.
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