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

Like his sister, Prince Archie — who is also featured in the holiday card — shares Lilibet’s red hair

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Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet in the 2024 Sussex holiday card

There are six photos on display in Prince Harry and Meghan 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, 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 alongside the family’s dogs Guy, Pula and Momma Mia.

The photos on the card, released on Monday, Dec. 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 Archewell Foundation. We wish you a very happy holiday season and a joyful new year.” The photo of Archie and Lilibet is the first time the Sussex kids have been shown since they briefly appeared in Harry & Meghan, the six-part docuseries that the couple debuted on Netflix two years ago in December 2022.

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2024 Sussex holiday card

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 told Hello! 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 Lili can sit on hers.”

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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

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 on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Duke of Sussex spoke of his mother Princess 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.

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Lady Diana Spencer (Diana Princess of Wales) with her Brother Charles, Lord Althorp (Earl Spencer) in 1968

Lilibet’s red hair was first revealed in the 2021 Sussex family holiday card, released six months after Lilibet’s birth that June. It was the first photo shared of Harry and Meghan’s only daughter, and the photo of the newly-minted family of four was accompanied by the message, “This year, 2021, we welcomed our daughter, Lilibet to the world. Archie made us a ‘Mama’ and a ‘Papa,’ and Lili made us a family.”

The 2021 photo was taken by Alexi Lubomirski, who also snapped 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.

Misan Harriman Princess Lilibet in June 2022

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 birth.

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

During an episode of her Archetypes podcast, 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.”

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