"To have a boy and then a girl, you know, what more can you ask for?" So Prince Harry said a few months before Meghan Markle gave birth to their daughter, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor on June 4, 2021, making their son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor a big brother and seeing their plan to fruition. "We've got our family," Harry told Oprah Winfrey in one of the less eyebrow-raising and more aww -inspiring moments of his and Meghan's bombshell-packed sit-down with their Montecito, Calif., neighbor .
"We've got the four of us and our two dogs, and it's great." Added then-pregnant Meghan , "Two is it." So when Harry pulled their "precious daughter from that world into this," as he described the moment Lili was born in his 2023 memoir Spare , their family was, indeed, complete.
Back home, he noted, the "sacred airspace" near the kitchen reserved for her playpen, toys and stuffed animals was christened "Lili Land." And that could have been the and-they-lived-happily-ever-after capper for the branch of the royal family that moved to California rather than be increasingly unhappy living in a fish bowl in the U.K.
Instead, Harry and Meghan went on to divulge much more about what led to their decision to relocate, even opening their 18,000-square-foot home to cameras for a 2022 Netflix docuseries that, in addition to providing them a global platform to air their grievances, gave a glimpse into their life as parents . But just a glimpse, because—while their kids remain unwitti.
