Meghan Markle posted a Father’s Day tribute to Prince Harry with never-before-seen footage of him with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet – and one royal expert says the post is very telling
Meghan Markle shares sweet family clips to mark Father’s Day
Prince Harry’s Father’s Day tribute from Meghan Markle shows he “doesn’t have it all” despite the song it is set to, according to a royal expert. Meghan posted a video to Instagram showing Harry alongside Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, set to the song Have It All by Jason Mraz.
The compilation showed photos and videos of Harry laughing, dancing and spending quality time with his children through the years. Meghan captioned the post: “The best. Happy Father’s Day to our favourite guy.” The post came hours after Harry’s estranged brother Prince William was also seen in a new picture with his children in a post on the official Prince and Princess of Wales social media accounts.
Kensington Palace said the photographs were taken by professional photographer Josh Shinner in Norfolk earlier this year. And according to royal expert and historian Dr Tessa Dunlop, there was a vast gulf between the two posts.
She told the Mirror : “Hail Prince William, the model father. Or rather the model English father, with a before-and-after duo of professional photographs featuring a handsome, upstanding man, beautifully blended with his children; a foursome united in different shades of ‘Norfolk’ green.
“The post dropped early on Father’s Day via Kensington Palace’s Instagram account, giving that other royal family plenty of time to tweak their own paternal efforts for a later LA release.
“In Britain, it was bedtime before we caught a sneaky peak of the Sussexes’ alternative Californian vibe: Harry the hands-on dad – forget formal posing in tweedy greens, this was ‘au naturel’. Well, sort of.
“A hotch-potch of sunbaked vibes, bubble machines and sea-side shots cast to the Jason Mraz track ‘Have it all.’ Except Harry doesn’t have it all.”
The tribute to Harry comes just weeks after he spoke out about his rift with his own father King Charles, and said he would love reconciliation with him.
And Tessa added: “Despite his professed desire to resume relations with his own father the King, the Duke of Sussex remains something of an orphan, stranded on the other side of the Atlantic. A discordant backdrop that cast his otherwise happy little video in a poignant light.
“Poor Harry. These days having it all even means sharing images of his children’s faces, albeit blurry ones taken when they were much younger.
“Such are the compromises celebrities make when no longer protected by the royal coffers. Meghan’s Instagram account is a hungry beast.
“Long gone are the effortless days of a shared fraternal photograph; it was 2017 when William and Harry posted an early photograph with their dear Papa in the Scottish Highlands for Father’s Day.
“It had been declared the holiday snap indicative of the brothers’ close bond, proof that when it comes to the Royal Family, what you see is only ever half the story.”
Tessa Dunlop is the author of the new book Lest We Forget, War and Peace in 100 British Monuments.
