{"id":375242,"date":"2026-03-09T03:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/375242\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:29:07","slug":"meghan-markle-shares-rare-new-picture-of-princess-lilibet-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/375242\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle shares rare new picture of Princess Lilibet | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Meghan Markle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Duchess of Sussex<\/a> posted a photograph cuddling her daughter while perched on a rock at a seaside, along with a caption that reads: &#8220;For the woman she will be one day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy International Women&#8217;s Day,&#8221; and credits the picture to &#8220;Papa Sussex&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Meghan&#8217;s <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Princess Kate pens &#039;kindness&#039; message on International Women&#039;s Day\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/royal\/2179709\/princess-kate-message-international-womens-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">International Women&#8217;s Day<\/a> post last year also featured the young princess. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/instagram\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> carousel, she posted a black and white photograph of herself as a child with her mum, a selfie of the pair during her adult years, a photograph of Harry and kissing and hugging their daughter, and a final one of Meghan and Harry on a beach.<\/p>\n<p>With a slightly longer caption, she wrote: &#8220;Happy International Women&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Celebrating the strong women around us &amp; the girls with dreams who will become women with vision. Also thanking those who uplift us every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meghan started sharing candid images of her children, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Prince Archie\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/archie-harrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prince Archie<\/a> and Princess Lilibet, on her Instagram account a few months after her return to the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*** Ensure our latest royal headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source. <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=express.co.uk&amp;hl=en_GB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to activate<\/a> or just add us as Preferred Source in your Google search settings. ***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s sweet International Women&#8217;s Day post comes after Meghan shared another photo of the Princess on Valentine&#8217;s Day, which was the first time you could clearly see Lilibet&#8217;s face from the side.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph shows the Duke of Sussex holding their daughter, who is holding a bunch of red balloons, alongside a caption which reads: &#8220;These two + Archie = my forever Valentines&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Meghan&#8217;s official Instagram having several photos of both Princess Lilibet and Prince Archie, the recent Valentine&#8217;s post sparked backlash from the public.<\/p>\n<p>One person wrote online: &#8220;You have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|AutoLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Harry<\/a> breaking down in sobs with parents who actually lost kids to cyberbullying and preach about the dangers of kids and social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou now decide to showcase Lily&#8217;s face? I guess the money is not trickling in as fast as it was before huh guys?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Duchess of Sussex posted a photograph cuddling her daughter while perched on a rock at a seaside,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,876,171775,17,43012,5091,172998,172999,26234,173000,5093,72098,39706,173001],"class_list":{"0":"post-375242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-instagram","13":"tag-international-womens-day","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-meghan-and-harry","16":"tag-meghan-markle","17":"tag-meghan-markle-instagram","18":"tag-meghan-markle-instagram-post","19":"tag-princess-lilibet","20":"tag-royal-children","21":"tag-royal-family","22":"tag-social-media-backlash","23":"tag-the-sussexes","24":"tag-young-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116197101948607541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}