There are six photos on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s 2024 Christmas card – but one in particular is causing a stir.

Nestled between photos of the couple visiting Nigeria and Colombia this year, the photo at the top center of the card’s six selected snaps includes a rare photo of the couple’s children, son Prince Archie and daughter Princess Lilibet. Archie (5) and Lilibet (3) run towards Harry (40) and Meghan (43), who are standing with open arms next to the family dogs Guy, Pula and Momma Mia.

The photos on the card, posted on Monday, December 16, are accompanied by the message: “On behalf of the Office of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Archewell Productions and the Archewell Foundation.” We wish you a happy holiday and a happy new year.” The photo of Archie and Lilibet is the first time the Sussex children have been shown since their brief appearance Harry and Meghanthe six-part documentary the couple debuted on Netflix two years ago in December 2022.

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Archie and Lilibet are seen from behind, completely capturing their red hair, which Prince Harry recently spoke about. On September 30, Prince Harry attended the WellChild Awards in London, where he spoke Hello! Chief Content Officer Sophie Vokes-Dudgeon said that both “Archie and Lili are blessed with their mother’s thick hair.” Vokes-Dudgeon wrote that Harry also “wondered that it wouldn’t be long before Lili was on hers.” can sit.”

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This year’s WellChild Awards wasn’t the first time Harry spoke about Archie and Lili’s red hair, which they inherited from Harry himself. During an interview on The Late Show with Stephen ColbertThe Duke of Sussex spoke about his mother Princess Diana’s Spencer family, telling the talk show host: “The Spencer gene is very, very strong.”

“I actually really thought at the start of my relationship (with Meghan) that there was no way the ginger gene could stand up to my wife’s genes if this went the distance and we had children – but I was wrong!” he continued continued.

“Make ginger,” Harry added jokingly.

Except for Harry, all three of Diana’s siblings – Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Lady Jane Fellowes and Earl Charles Spencer – have red hair.

Lilibet’s red hair was first revealed in the 2021 Sussex family Christmas card, released six months after Lilibet’s birth in June this year. It was the first photo shared of Harry and Meghan’s only daughter, and the photo of the new family of four was accompanied by the message: “This year, 2021, we welcomed our daughter Lilibet into the world.” Archie told us a “mom” and a “dad,” and Lili made us a family.”

The 2021 photo was taken by Alexi Lubomirski, who also shot Harry and Meghan’s official engagement portraits four years earlier in 2017.

Lilibet’s red hair was on display again when Harry and Meghan released an official portrait of her to mark her first birthday in June 2022.

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Although Harry and Meghan want to keep Archie and Lilibet’s life private, as loving parents, the two occasionally speak about their daughter, for example when announcing her birth on June 4, 2021: “She is more than we could have ever imagined” she said the couple as they announced their arrival.

Just weeks after Lili’s birth, Prince Harry told guests at a private garden party for the WellChild Awards that his daughter was “very relaxed and seems happy just sitting there while Archie runs around like crazy.”

During an episode of hers Archetypes On the podcast, Meghan said of her daughter: “I want my Lili to be educated and smart and proud of those things.” During a visit with Harry to Nigeria last May, Meghan had Lilibet on her mind, noting that “singing and Dancing” was Lili’s “favorite class,” probably because of “all the jumping around.”

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