{"id":684504,"date":"2026-01-09T12:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684504\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:58:11","slug":"royal-family-live-harry-and-meghan-share-archie-and-lilibet-decision-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/684504\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family LIVE: Harry and Meghan share Archie and Lilibet decision | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sussexes are &#8220;proud&#8221; to be part of a parenting trend concerned about the impact smartphones can have on children,\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/meghan-markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> has said.\u00a0The Duke and Duchess, whose children\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/archie-harrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archie<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/lilibet-diana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lilibet<\/a> are six and four years old respectively, both spoke at an Oprah virtual launch event for a book which &#8220;invites kids to step back from their screens&#8221; and how they can enjoy life without a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry<\/a> and Meghan showed their support for the cause, with the Prince calling the topic &#8220;incredibly valuable&#8221;. He &#8220;because over the years, we&#8217;ve worked with how the digital spaces [are] deeply affecting our collective and mental, emotional, and physical health&#8221;. Meghan said: \u201cAn emoji laugh is not the same physiological response that we need, that our kids need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS IS A LIVE BLOG. PLEASE CHECK BELOW FOR UPDATES&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sussexes are &#8220;proud&#8221; to be part of a parenting trend concerned about the impact smartphones can have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[8009,8010,1281,32989,1488,8170,447,18747,2655,8171,5105,7710,519,1277,1598,10858,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-684504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-harry-and-meghan","9":"tag-harry-and-meghan-news","10":"tag-meghan-markle","11":"tag-meghan-markle-children","12":"tag-meghan-markle-news","13":"tag-prince-archie","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-prince-harry-children","16":"tag-prince-harry-news","17":"tag-princess-lilibet","18":"tag-royal","19":"tag-royal-families","20":"tag-royal-family","21":"tag-royal-family-live","22":"tag-royal-family-news","23":"tag-royal-news","24":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115865262659370931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}