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'Dream girl' Lilibet is five! Harry and Meghan mark their daughter's birthday with new family portrait 35%
By Maanya Sachdeva0%
6/4/2026, 8:55:20 AM
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Harry and Meghan have marked their daughter Princess Lilibet's fifth birthday with a new family portrait.
The image showing Prince Harry holding Lilibet with her mother smiling adoringly at the five-year old was shared to Meghan's 4.6 million followers on Instagram.
Lilibet's strawberry blonde hair, which falls past her shoulders, obscured her face from the camera.
Another photo showed the Sussexes' younger child standing in the garden of the family's £11million Montecito home as she admired some flowers.
Meghan's caption read: 'Our dream girl.
Happy fifth birthday, Lili.'
In the photos, Lilibet is wearing a light yellow sundress previously seen in a behind-the-scenes shoot for her mother's lifestyle brand As Ever.
And it appears that Meghan's 'mini me' is developing a style similar to her mother's; in the photo, she sported a thin gold bracelet that looked very similar to the duchess's £5,800 Cartier Love Bracelet.
Meghan first gave royal fans a proper glimpse of Lilibet on her fourth birthday, when she shared a black-and-white photograph that showed her eyes and the top half of her face.
Lili had previously only been pictured as a toddler, including when the Sussexes released a portrait taken by their family friend Misan Harriman during a relaxed picnic held at their former home, Frogmore Cottage, on the royal estate to celebrate her first birthday.
Lilibet was dressed in an adorable blue frock, with a white bow in her hair.
Days later, she documented the family's two-day Disneyland holiday on Instagram, including sharing the moment Lilibet and Archie met Elsa from Frozen, as well as a picture of the Duke enjoying a theme park ride with his daughter.
The social media blitz continued as Meghan paid tribute to her daughter on International Day of the Girl, gave millions of followers a glimpse into their Halloween celebrations and released the Sussexes' annual holiday card.
Harry, 41, is shown with his hands cupped protectively around Archie's head.
The father and son are staring at one another lovingly, both with smiles on their faces.
Next to them on a bridge are Meghan and Lilibet.
The duchess is bent down to rest her forehead against her daughter's while holding both her hands.
In dappled California sunshine, Lilibet's face is covered by her hair, which comes down to her shoulder blades.
While Lilibet's face was hidden in earlier photos, fans finally saw what she looked like in Meghan's Valentine's Day post.
The Instagram snap showed Harry smiling as he held the princess in his arms while Lilibet clutched a bunch of red balloons.
It sent fans into overdrive with people commenting on her red hair 'like her father' and her being 'beautiful just like her daddy'.
Meanwhile, Archie's face has not been seen in a photo since the Sussexes' Christmas card in 2021.
The couple held an informal garden party on the royal estate, with a birthday cake, balloons, party games and picnic snacks.
It is believed Lilibet's second cousins, Zara and Mike Tindall's three children, Mia, then eight, Lena, then three, and Lucas, then one, as well as Savannah, then 11, and Isla, then ten, daughters of Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly, attended the party.
Prince Archie's godfather, Charlie Van Straubenzee, and his brother Tom, godfather to Princess Charlotte, were also invited, the Daily Mail reported at the time.
'It was a lovely do and had everything you’d expect from a child’s birthday party,' a source told The Sun.
'The idea was for it to be very relaxed and casual, with people free to pop in and out as they wished.'
Lilibet's latest birthday post comes after branding and PR experts told the Daily Mail that there has been a 'noticeable shift in Meghan's approach to featuring her children on public social media' over the last year, adding it 'reinforces the idea that As Ever is an extension of her life as a mother and homemaker'.
Like her older brother Archie, seven, Lilibet spent the first four years of her life shielded from the spotlight while growing up thousands of miles away from the Royal Family.
Such was the Sussexes' dedication to privacy that they never followed up her first birthday portrait – depicting the angelic toddler enjoying the sunshine during a picnic at Frogmore Cottage – with any more official snaps that showed her face.
When she turned four, Meghan a lso posted the now-famous video of her and Prince Harry dancing in a hotel room to induce Lilibet's birth, with the duchess twerking to Starrkeisha's viral Baby Mama song.
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