Princess Lilibet of Sussex

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**Princess Lilibet of Sussex** (Lilibet Diana; born June 4, 2021) is the younger child and only daughter of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. She is also the youngest grandchild of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales and the eleventh great grandchild of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She is seventh in line to the British throne.

## Biography

Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born on June 4, 2021 at 11:40 a.m at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, United States, the second child of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Her birth and her name were announced two days later on June 6. Her first name, Lilibet, is in honor of her paternal great grandmother, Elizabeth II, whose childhood nickname was “Lilibet”. Her middle name is in honor of her paternal grandmother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

Lilibet came to England for the first time in June 2022 to meet her great grandmother Queen Elizabeth II during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

She was christened in the Episcopal Church, a province of the Anglican Communion in a private service at her parents’ home on 3 March 2023 by John H. Taylor, the Bishop of Los Angeles. One of her godparents is American actor and comedian Tyler Perry.

Lilibet resides with her family in the Montecito neighborhood of Santa Barbara, California.

## Titles, styles, and succession

* June 4, 2021- March 8, 2023: Miss Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor
* March 8, 2023- present: *Her Royal Highness Princess* Lilibet of Sussex

Lilibet was born eighth in line to the British throne during the reign of her great grandmother, Elizabeth II. As the great granddaughter of the monarch, Lilibet was not born a Princess. However, as the daughter of a British peer, The Duke of Sussex, Lilibet was entitled to be styled with the courtesy title “Lady”. However, like her brother, she was not styled with any courtesy title, and was given the simple honorific “Miss”.

Following the ascension of her grandfather, King Charles III on 8 September 2022, Lilibet rose to seventh in line, and in accordance with the 1917 letters patent, Lilibet obtained the status of Princess of the United Kingdom and became entitled to be styled as “Her Royal Highness”, as the grandchild of the monarch through his son, Prince Harry.

Lilibet’s title wasn’t officially recognized on the Royal Family’s official website until six months later on 8 March 2023.

## Ancestry

Lilibet is of mixed ancestry. Through her father, Prince Harry, Lilibet is a direct descendant of many British monarchs including King Charles III, Queen Elizabeth II, King George VI, King George V, King Edward VII, and Queen Victoria. Lilibet is a direct descendant of the House of Glücksburg the Royal house of Greece and Denmark via Prince Phillip, Prince Harry’s grandfather, and is a direct descendant of Greek and Danish monarchs. Through Prince Harry’s mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, Lilibet is a descendent of the Spencer family, an aristocratic family and one of England’s oldest families, and is a direct descendant of eight out of the first nine Earl Spencers. Through Diana, Princess of Wales, Lilibet is a descendant of Maurice Roche an Irish peer who was 4th Baron Fermoy, and Diana’s maternal grandfather. Also through Diana, Lilibet is a descendent of Francis Ellen Work, an American socialite and Diana’s great great grandmother.

Through her mother, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Lilibet is a descendant of African slaves through Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland. According to members of the Ragland family the first identifiable member of the family was Richard Ragland, a man who lived long enough to experience the abolition of slavery. Through Meghan’s father, Thomas Markle, Lilibet is of English, Irish, and German descent. Lilibet is also a descendant of a few monarchs including King Robert I of Scotland, and King Edward III of England. Also through her mother, Lilibet is a distant cousin of Red Sox player Mookie Betts.