Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor

Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor (born 6 May 2019) is the son of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. He is the eighth great-grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and is seventh in the line of succession to the British throne.

Birth, Family, and Infancy

Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born at 05:26 BST (04:26 UTC) on 6 May 2019 at the Portland Hospital in London. He is the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Unlike previous royal births, there was no immediate photocall at the hospital steps.

Several landmarks were illuminated in different colors to mark the birth, including Niagara Falls, the CN Tower and the London Eye. His name was announced on 8 May 2019. Mountbatten-Windsor descends paternally from British royal family. He is mixed-race ancestry, having African-American and European-American maternal lineage. He has dual nationally of the United Kingdom and the United States. In the 2021 television interview Oprah with Meghan and Harry, the Duchess said that whilst she was pregnant with him, a member of the royal family expressed concern "about how dark (Mountbatten-Windsor's) skin might be when he's born."

Mountbatten-Windsor was christened wearing the royal christening gown by Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 6 July 2019 in the private chapel at Windsor Castle, with water from the River Jordon. In a break from royal tradition, Mountbatten-Windsor's parents did not make public the identities of his godparents. In early 2020, Mountbatten-Windsor's parents stepped down from their roles as working members of the royal family. The family then moved to North America and settled in Montecito, California in the summer of that year. His younger sister, Lilibet, was born in 2021.

Education

In January 2022, it was reported that Mountbatten-Windsor had been attending a "non-traditional" nursery school in California, with focus on "emotional literacy and sustainability."

Public Appearances

In September and October 2019, Mountbatten-Windsor accompanied his parents on a Southern African tour to Malawi, Angola, South Africa and Botswana. To mark his first birthday in 2020, he appeared in a storytime video with his mother as a part of the Save with Stories campaign, a project aimed at supporting children and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Title and Succession

Mountbatten-Windsor is seventh in the line of succession to the British throne. As heir apparent to his father's Dukedom of Sussex, Earldom of Dumbarton, and Baron of Kilkeel, he is customarily entitled to use Prince Harry's senior subsidiary title Earl of Dumbarton as a courtesy. However, the Duke and Duchess decided instead that he would be styled as Master Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor in accordance with their wish that he grow up as a private citizen.

Under letters patent issued by King George V in 1917, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor is entitled to become a prince upon the accession of his grandfather, Charles, Prince of Wales. In the interview Oprah with Meghan and Harry, the Duchess said that she had been told that changes would be made to remove that entitlement. She suggested that this was because her son is mixed-race, but the Prince's of Wales's plans for a scaled-down royal family limited to the direct heirs and their children date back to the 1990's.

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