Prince Harry, Meghan name their son Archie
LONDON — Prince Harry and Meghan have named their son Archie.
Buckingham Palace says that the baby’s full name is Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
The palace made the announcement hours after the couple posed with the two-day-old for the media. He also met his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, for the first time.
He is the queen’s eighth great-grandchild and is seventh in line to the British throne.
Earlier Wednersday, two tired but beaming parents and one blissfully sleeping baby posed for cameras as Prince Harry and Meghan helped satisfy a huge global appetite for images and details about their newborn son.
Standing in a vast, red-carpeted hall at Windsor Castle, Meghan declared the baby “a dream” and motherhood “magic.”
Harry cradled his son in his arms as the couple, known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, posed for cameras — the first in a lifetime of photo calls for the two-day-old baby, who is seventh in line to the throne.
Baby Sussex lay silently, swaddled in a white blanket and wearing a matching knitted cap.
Meghan declared motherhood to be “magic.”
“It’s pretty amazing,” said the 37-year-old American formerly known as Meghan Markle. “I have the two best guys in the world, so I’m really happy.”
She said the baby had “just been a dream.”
“He has the sweetest temperament. He’s really calm,” she said.
Harry quipped: “I wonder who he gets that from.”
Asked which parent the baby took after, Harry said it was too soon to tell.
“Everyone says that babies change so much over two weeks,” said the 34-year-old prince. “We’re basically monitoring how the changing process happens over this next month really. But his looks are changing every single day, so who knows.
“We’re just so thrilled to have our own little bundle of joy,” he added.
The couple left the photo call to introduce the baby to his grandparents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
Baby Sussex was born Monday at an as-yet-undisclosed location. He weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces.
