Prince Harry and Meghan Markle confirmed that they’d christened christened their daughter Princess Lilibet Diana, marking their first use of the royal title. The palace said its website would be updated “in due course” but seems to be in no rush.
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s first child, Archie, was christened at Windsor Castle on July 6, 2019, the event generated all kinds of controversy — from allegations that the couple legally had to identify the godparents to reports that they’d slighted the queen by picking a date when she couldn’t attend. In retrospect, this isn’t surprising. We now know that Harry and Meghan’s tensions with the rest of the royal family were about to come to a head. Months later, in January 2020, they went public with their decision to begin stepping back from royal affairs.
Now that Harry and Meghan live in California without even a royal residence to call their own, one might think that their second child’s christening would be relatively drama-free. But the family over in London has proven that they can get petty over just a press release and the wording on a website.
On March 8, People reported that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had christened their 21-month-old daughter in a “small and intimate ceremony” at their home in Montecito.
