Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are keeping a special Fourth of July tradition going.
Meghan shared a sweet selfie with Harry on Friday, July 4, offering a glimpse into a cherished tradition the couple has carried out every Independence Day since their second date.
Meghan, 43, posted the selfie — which shows her cuddled up next to a beaming Harry, 40 — along with two photos of Fourth of July–themed red-white-and-blue cupcakes on Instagram.
“Our second date was the 4th of July 2016 and H brought me cupcakes to celebrate,” the Duchess of Sussex began her caption. “Now, all these years later, our two children are in on the tradition.”
Meghan Markle marked Independence Day 2025 by sharing a selfie of her and Prince Harry on their second date back in 2016.
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Meghan signed off, “Happy Independence Day! May your day be as sweet as these cupcakes.”
The first photo in the series shows a tray of cupcakes she and Harry made on Friday with their two children, Archie, 6, and Lilibet, 4. The last pic reveals a cupcake Harry brought her in 2016.
A black-and-white version of the selfie was previously included in the couple’s 2022 Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan.
“Our second date was the 4th of July 2016 and H brought me cupcakes to celebrate,” Meghan captioned the post.
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Meghan and Harry’s second date took place at London’s Soho House, which also happened to be the site of their first date that occurred only one day before.
The Duke of Sussex opened up about the date and its special significance for him in his 2023 memoir Spare.
“She walked in wearing a pretty blue sundress with white pinstripes. She was aglow. I stood and said: I bear gifts. A pink box. I held it forward. She shook it. What’s this?” Harry wrote.
“She opened the box. Cupcakes. Red, white and blue cupcakes, to be exact. In honor of Independence Day. I said something about the Brits having a very different view of Independence Day from the Yanks, but, oh, well,” he wrote, adding that Meghan said the sweets “looked amazing.”
“Now, all these years later, our two children are in on the tradition,” the Duchess of Sussex wrote in her post alongside a photo of her family’s Fourth of July cupcakes.
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After their server came and went, the pair kissed.
“Again the conversation flowed, crackled. Burgers came and went, uneaten. I felt an overwhelming sense of Overture, Prelude, Kettle Drums, Act I. And yet also a sense of ending. A phase of my life — the first half? — was coming to a close,” he said of the start to their romance.
Earlier on Friday, Meghan took to the Instagram account of her lifestyle brand As Ever to show more of her Fourth of July festivities. In a brief video seemingly filmed at her and Harry’s home in Montecito, Calif., the Duchess is seen assembling a red-white-and-blue charcuterie board. The post was captioned simply, “Happy 4th of July!”
Though Harry has remained a U.K. citizen since he and Meghan stepped down from their roles as senior working members of the royal family in 2020, the prince has said he has considered becoming a U.S. citizen.
“American citizenship is a thought that has crossed my mind but certainly not something that is a high priority for me right now,” he told Good Morning America’s Will Reeve in February 2024 during the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025’s One Year to Go celebration in Canada.
Asked by Reeve if he was enjoying living in the U.S., the Duke of Sussex replied, “It’s amazing. I love every single day.” Harry qualified that sentiment, though, by adding that he did not feel “American.” “Do I feel American? Um, no. I don’t know how I feel,” he explained.