Harry emulates mother with baby news
On Valentine’s Day 1984, the newspaper front pages were awash with happy news – Diana, Princess of Wales, was expecting her second child.
‘‘September baby for Princess,’’ The Daily Telegraph headline said, alongside a photograph of the beaming Princess and the news that the Queen was ‘‘delighted’’.
Fast forward 37 years and that much-loved child, Prince Harry, had baby news of his own. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed on Sunday, local time, that they were expecting their own second child, a sibling for their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, who turns two in May.
The timing was nothing more than a ‘‘lovely coincidence’’, The Telegraph understands.
A spokesman for the couple said: ‘‘We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child.’’
The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales and the ‘‘entire family’’ are ‘‘delighted and wish them well’’, Buckingham Palace said.
The news comes just three months after the Duchess wrote a deeply personal account of suffering a miscarriage for The New York Times. In November, she revealed she had lost her unborn, second child in July.
A black and white photograph of the couple released on Sunday shows them lying under a tree, with the baby bump clearly visible.
The image was ‘‘taken remotely’’ by Misan Harriman, a Nigerian-born British photographer who has been friends with the Sussexes for many years.
Harriman tweeted: ‘‘Meg, I was there at your wedding to witness this love story begin, and my friend, I am honoured to capture it grow. Congratulations on this joyous news!’’
The news casts doubt on whether the Duke will return to the UK later this year, without his wife or son, to celebrate the Duke of Edinburgh’s 100th birthday. – Telegraph Group