Greeting Card made in Meghan Markle and Harry’s California exudes the love of living with their two children, Archie, 2, and Lilibet, 6 months. Far from painful memories, from the contingencies of the protocol. Far from reality too.
It is an image of Epinal. The image of a perfect family made in USA. On December 23, with the photo of their greeting card Prince Harry, 37, and his wife, Meghan Markle, 40, threw a gem in the litany of bad news. The Sussex couple persisted and signed. Yes, they made the right choice to leave England. Yes, they have never been so happy that far from the Firm and its oppressive protocol. Yes, here in Montecito, California, life is smiling on them. Finally. Yes, today, more than a couple, they are a family, a real family. The one they each missed. With a mother who left too quickly for one, divorced parents for the other.
” This year 2021, we welcomed our daughter, Lilibet, into the world. Archie made us a “Mom” and a “Dad”, and Lili made us a family Harry and Meghan wrote on the back of their card. Their center of gravity is there, with their two little ones. Lilibet Diana, 6 months, that we discover for the first time, who responds all smiles, to the radiant face of her mother. Happiness can also be contagious. His older brother, Archie, spitting image of his daddy, has definitely lost his baby features. At 2 years old, his new role as big brother made him grow up suddenly. The Sussexes are alone on the roof of their world. And free to play around with everything. And even (and above all?) Of the protocol.
The couple’s personal holiday card to family and friends features a new photo by @alexilubo of Harry, Meghan, Archie and Lilibet. “This year, 2021, we welcomed our daughter, Lilibet, to the world,” they write. “Archie made us a ‘Mama’ and a ‘Papa’, and Lili made us a family.” pic.twitter.com/b249OIm1qL
– Omid Scobie (@scobie) December 23, 2021
No dress code couture for this anthology photo, the young parents pose in jeans – and horror, Harry’s is even ripped – and in a white shirt. According to their biographer Omid Scobie, this photo is signed by the English photographer Alexi Lubomirski. It was he who already immortalized the couple’s engagement and the official family portraits on the wedding day. The photo was reportedly taken last summer at the family home in Montecito. It is an ode to the Californian sun, to the present moment … to the slow life, in a home, it should be remembered, at 17.4 million euros, as fun Daily Mail. More than ever, it is a world, almost a solar system, which now separates the couple from their previous life.
Queen Elizabeth II, she lived her second Christmas, in Windsor, pandemic obliges. Her first, without her rock, without the man of her life, Prince Philip, who disappeared on April 9, 2021. Away also from her beloved home Sandringham “as a precaution”, where she usually spent the end of year celebrations. ‘year. She closed the chapter of this year 2021, trying, peppered with scandals, disillusions and worries. A moment all the more painful for the Sovereign as England, hit hard by a new outbreak of Covid-19, once again folds its wings.
His traditional Christmas lunch has been canceled. And for New Year’s Eve, even his close circle, which had yet planned to close ranks around the monarch, has shrunk to grief. Her daughter, Princess Anne is confined, her husband, Timothy Laurence has tested positive, and was unable to attend. Only Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles, Sophie of Wessex and Prince Edward were present… This evening of the 24th, the grass was – perhaps – greener elsewhere.
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