Prince Harry Spoke of Daughter Princess Lilibet’s Long Red Hair Recently — and It’s on Display in the Sussex Holiday Card!

Mar. 15, 2025

There are six photos on display inPrince HarryandMeghan Markle’s 2024 holiday card — but one in particular is generating ample buzz.

Nestled amongst photos of the couple visiting Nigeria and Colombia this year, the top middle photo of the card’s six chosen snaps includes a rare photo of the couple’s kids, sonPrince Archieand daughterPrincess Lilibet. Archie, 5, and Lilibet, 3, run towards Harry, 40, and Meghan, 43, who are standing with open arms alongside the family’s dogs Guy, Pula and Momma Mia.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with Princess Lilibet and Prince Archie in their 2024 holiday card.Archewell

Archewell

2024 Sussex holiday card.Archewell

Archie and Lilibet are shown from behind, fully capturing their red hair, which Prince Harry spoke about recently. On Sept. 30, Prince Harry attended the WellChild Awards in London, where he toldHello!chief content officer Sophie Vokes-Dudgeon that both “Archie and Lili have been blessed with their mother’s thick hair.” Vokes-Dudgeon wrote that Harry also “marveled that it won’t be long until Lilican sit on hers.”

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex smiles as he attends the Wellchild Awards 2024 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel on Sept. 30, 2024 in London, England.Chris Jackson/Getty

Chris Jackson/Getty

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

“I actually really, genuinely thought at the beginning of my relationship [with Meghan] that, should this go the distance and we have kids, that there’s no way the ginger gene will stand up to my wife’s genes — but I was wrong!” he continued.

“Go gingers,” Harry jokingly added.

In addition to Harry, all three of Diana’s siblings — Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Lady Jane Fellowes and Earl Charles Spencer — all have red hair.

Lady Diana Spencer (Diana Princess of Wales) with her Brother Charles, Lord Althorp (Earl Spencer) in 1968.PA Images via Getty

PA Images via Getty

Lilibet’s red hair was on display again when Harry and Meghan released an official portrait of her tomark her first birthdayin June 2022.

Princess Lilibet in June 2022.Misan Harriman

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Though Harry and Meghan wish to keep both Archie and Lilibet’s lives private, as loving parents the two do occasionally open up about their daughter, like when announcing her June 4, 2021 birth: “She is more than we could have ever imagined,” the couple said upon announcing her 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 chilledand seems happy to just sit there while Archie is running around like crazy.”

During an episode of herArchetypespodcast, Meghan said of her daughter that “I want my Lili to want to be educated and want to be smart and to pride herself on those things.” This past May, during a visit to Nigeria with Harry,Meghan had Lilibet on her mind, noting that “singing and dancing” was Lili’s “favorite class,” probably because of “all the jumping around.”

source: people.com