Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have today released a carefully choreographed ‘Happy Holidays’ video featuring further new glimpses of their children.
Archie and Lilibet are shown helping their father push a trolley of food made to feed the poor in California on Thanksgiving this year – but again their faces are hidden.
Meghan follows them and the trays of cookies, while dancing a jig of joy at charity Our Big Kitchen Los Angeles.
As the film was published on their website on Friday, the Sussexes simultaneously released their own ‘holiday card’ – but unlike last year, their children are not featured.
Meghan, 44, and Harry, 41, are shown holding hands and smiling in the snow at the Invictus Games in Canada in February.
There is no mention of Christmas in either release, instead they used the more American words: ‘We wish you a very happy holiday season and a joyful new year’.
Both King Charles and the Prince and Princess of Wales used the phrase ‘Happy Christmas’ in their 2025 cards, which appeared on Thursday.
The Sussex film and card were revealed as the couple announced that their Archewell Foundation will be renamed Archewell Philanthropies – five years after it was founded following Megxit.
In yet another personal rebrand, the couple say the charity name change marks a moment to expand their mission globally, with Archie and Lilibet.
The Sussexes’ pseudo-royal trips abroad to Nigeria and Colombia in 2024 also feature, along with their new logo for Archewell Philanthropies.
It ends with the message: ‘On behalf of the Office of Prince Harry and Meghan, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and Archewell, we wish you a very happy holiday season and a joyful new year.’
It was released less than 24 hours after the Prince and Princess of Wales sent out their annual Christmas card featuring a new portrait of the future king and queen with George, Charlotte and Louis.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been famously private about their children, Prince Archie, six, and Princess Lilibet, four – obscuring their faces in photos published online or only sharing pictures of them from behind.