Harry and Meghan Markle, all we know about Lilibet’s baptism

Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, the second child of Harry e Meghan Markle, is three months old. At his age, his older brother, Archie, had already been baptized. The top secret ceremony took place in July 2019 in the private chapel of Windsor Castle. Without Queen Elizabeth. It was not, at the time, a disrespect to the Dukes of Sussex: His Majesty deserted the ceremony cause “engagements institutional already confirmed previously“. Since then, however, everything has changed. Harry and Meghan have now given up royal duties and moved to California.

And from there they launched harsh attacks on the royal family, culminating in the famous bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey in which they accused the august relatives of even racism. Yet the Sussex they want Lilibet’s baptism to be worthy of a royal, just like that of his older brother Archie. In Windsor, and in the presence of members of the royal family.

According to the British press Harry and Meghan asked a meeting at The Queen, in London, next October. By letting the sovereign know that on that occasion they would have liked to baptize Lilibet in Windsor. A “shocking proposal»Which at court,« after all the Sussexes have put the queen through, has left everyone stunned and indignant“. Buckingham sources told tabloids that the idea of ​​Harry and Meghan is almost an insult, since it comes at a very bad time: the wounds of the TV interview with Oprah are certainly not healed, as well as those caused by Harry when he podcast defined life at court «A cross between a zoo and a Truman show. Plus the British Crown doesn’t come out well even with the updated version of Finding Freedom. As if that weren’t enough, it became known that the memory bomb of the prince will be published right behind the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

The dream of the rebellious couple, therefore, seems destined to remain so. Real sources told the Mirror that Buckingham is considering the idea of ​​excluding the Sussexes from Christmas with the (royal) family. Let alone grant him the baptism of Lilibet in Windsor in a few days. Insiders also made it known that “the queen has no intention of responding to their shocking proposal “. There will be no reply either in positive or in negative, so that it is the passage of time to row against the couple, forcing her to resort to plan B: baptize Lili in the United States.

But why do the Sussexes, after having launched so many poisoned arrows against the royal family, yearn to baptize Lilibet in Windsor? Maybe the two parents thought that different treatment for the two children could create future recriminations between them. But maybe there is also a behind it less noble underlying fear, especially on Meghan’s part. The duchess according to the British tabloids fears that the excessive absence from family photos began to make them lose their magical aura thanks to which both she and the prince got millionaire contracts. Especially since, as reported by theExpress, in Hollywood a certain bad mood begins to spread towards her. To produce content (for now non-existent) on Netflix and Spotify, the former actress of Suits he earned higher decision-making wages than many colleagues who worked hard to make a career. The discontent towards her would have reached the point that many cheer because the Dukes of Sussex soon end up in the shadows and are forgotten. Just as happened to Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, which filled the pages of newspapers until the Americans got fed up with them. A royal baptism could be an excellent strategy to remove the specter of oblivion. But the queen, this time, doesn’t seem willing to give in.