How Prince Harry freaked out the media over Archie’s birth

We learn every day about the royal family, and more particularly about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. After the tiare affair revealed in Brokers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown of Valentine Lowe, we now discover the details of the birth of Archie.

Based on the new book by royal expert Katie Nicholl The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy and the Future of the CrownPrince Harry was reportedly obsessed, almost sickly, with keeping the birth of his first child a secret.

While the title of Archie and his sister Lilibet is currently being debated, his arrival in the world has just as much been talked about. Because there is a tacit contract between the royal family and the public, and the latter has been broken. People were eager to find out all the details about the new princely baby as soon as Meghan Markle gave birth.

According to the journalist of DailyMail Rebecca English, behind the scenes, the tension was such that more than one official wept in frustration and despair. Usually, protocol dictates that the father, mother and newborn pose on the hospital steps facing photographers and admirers, then answer a few questions before driving off. But when Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born on May 6, 2019, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex wanted to change all that. They managed to bamboozle the press.

How Harry bamboozled reporters for Archie

The couple who had been hoped to be reconciled with Frima after the death of Queen Elizabeth II were delighted to have been able to welcome their son to the private hospital in Portland, London, even before the press office of the palace had confirmed that Meghan was in labour. According to Nicholl, Harry always liked to “cheat the media”, probably because of what happened to his mother, Diana, who died in a car accident while being chased by paparazzi.

Two days after Archie’s birth, the prince and his wife took part in a brief photo shoot with just one reporter to ask his questions. But it seemed “staged” to Nicholl, and it demonstrated the growing gap between the public’s expectations of Harry and what he felt it was his duty to give them.

The actress of Suits then seemed tired and uncomfortable. As admitted by Kate Middleton, this postpartum photo is tough. The Princess of Wales only complied with it because she will one day be queen and the mother of a king, which legitimizes the public interest of such a shooting.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have chosen to remain more discreet, in particular by organizing a private baptism, and by refusing to reveal the names of their son’s godfathers. But for Nicholl, they have soured relations between the royal family and the press, or even the public, whether that is a justified sentiment on their part or not.