From celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee to navigating a complicated return to duty and their first joint trip to the UK after stepping back from full-time royal work in 2020, it’s been a busy month for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Amid these events, however, the couple also marked their daughter Lilibet’s first birthday with a backyard picnic party at Frogmore Cottage — and shared the first candid photo of Lili.
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As reported in People, according to a spokesperson for the couple, the “candid, spontaneous photograph that the Duke and Duchess are pleased to share today” was taken by family friend and birthday party guest Misan Harriman.
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The photo is the first image of Lilibet, who turned one on June 4, that has been shared since she was an infant. The sweet snap shows a smiling Lili (whose full name is Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, named after her great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, and her grandmother, Princess Diana) playing in the yard while sporting a blue dress. The child wore a white bow in her red hair — a hair colour she appears to have inherited from her father.
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