It’s reported that her parents Duchess Meghanand Prince Harry will celebrate their daughter’s first birthday privately as a family at Frogmore Cottage, their UK residence on the Windsor estate close to where the monarch lives. We have no word yet as to whetherQueen Elizabeth IIwill join the Sussexes for the occasion, but there’s speculation that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will christen Lili today while at Windsor. The chapel at Windsor Castle is where Meghan and Harry were married in 2018, and where Lili’s 3-year-old brother Archie was christened a year later. Duchess Kate and Prince William wished Lili a happy first birthday via Twitter, as did her grandfather Prince Charles and wife Duchess Camilla. Lil’s first birthday comes two days after she reportedly met her great-grandmother for the first time, most likely following Thursday’s Trooping the Colour parade. It was at the parade that Meghan and Harry were photographed through a window amid other members of the royal family, but they didn’t seem to have their children with them. Yesterday the couple were the stars of the thanksgiving service for the queen’s platinum jubilee at St Paul’s Cathedral, where they ascended the steps to cheers from the watching crowds and walked hand-in-hand up the aisle to their seats. Meghan was pregnant with Lili when she sat down with Oprah Winfrey for her incendiary interview in which she revealed the isolation and trauma she experienced during her time as a working member of the royal family, and claimed that the Duchess of Cambridge made her cry. Neither Meghan nor Harry have spoken about their relations with the family since that interview, which aired in 2020. Lili was born on June 4, 2021, at Santa Barbara Cottage hospital near the Sussexes’ home in Montecito, California. She is named after her great-grandmother (who was addressed with the pet name ‘Lilibet’ by her family and her husband Prince Philip) and her late grandmother Princess Diana. It took seven weeks after her birth for Lili’s name to be added to the line of succession on the British royal family’s website, which raised questions from reporters as to the reason for the delay. Lilibet Diana is 8th in line to the throne after her brother Archie and father Harry. Next up, From Pantyhose Protocol to Fancy Table Manners, 22 Royal Family Etiquette Rules
