Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
are determined to do things their way.
After stepping down from
their roles as senior working royals and swapping Frogmore Cottage for
sun-soaked Montecito, the couple have been exploring different ways to use
their celebrity for the good of others – from launching their global nonprofit,
Archewell Foundation, to their recent appearance at Global Citizen Live.
So it doesn’t come as a
surprise that when it comes to parenting, the couple are breaking from royal
protocol in just about every way imaginable, too.
Usually, the public get to
glimpse royal babies just hours after they’re born, with Prince William
and Kate Middleton appearing with all three of their children on the Lindo Wing
steps, just as Prince Charles and Princess Diana did before them.
But despite being born in
June, the Sussexes were yet to release any photographs of baby
Lilibet, or release any updates on their firstborn, Archie – which, experts
predict, is one of the primary reasons they decided to step away from the royal
spotlight in the first place.
“As the littlest Sussexes get
older they face the inevitable hounding by an intrusive paparazzi—photographers
jumping out from behind bushes and parked cars and all that,” royal expert
Christopher Anderson, author of the 2001 book Diana’s Boys, told The
Daily Beast recently.
“I’m sure Harry especially
wants to shield them from that trauma as long as humanly possible so that his
children can have something akin to the proverbial ‘normal’ childhood.”
The Daily Beast also
spoke to “veteran paparazzo” Giles Harrison, who said that Harry and Meghan’s
strict commitment to their two children’s privacy has left many photographers
unwilling to take the legal risk.
“If you get the pictures of
them, they are gonna try and sue you no matter what happens, no matter where
you were,” he told the publication. “And they can afford to sue you a lot more
than you can afford to defend yourself.”
