Prince Harry and Meghan Markle released their 2022 greeting card on Friday, but the image was missing two very important people.
The couple’s son, Archie, 3, and daughter, Lilibet, 1, were noticeably absent from the greeting.
“Wishing you a happy holiday season,” the card read.
“From our family to yours, and on behalf of our teams at the Archewell Foundation, Archewell Audio and Archwell Productions, we wish you health, peace and a very happy new year!”
The card was accompanied by a black and white photo of Harry, 38, and Markle, 41, which was taken at a recent evening at the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award Gala earlier this month At New York.
In the photo, the Duke of Sussex wore a dark colored suit, while the Duchess of Sussex wore a white off-the-shoulder dress with her hair pulled back.
The couple may have kept their kids out of this year’s holiday photo shoot because, as they previously shared, they want a “basic right to privacy.”
“If you’re at work and you have a picture of your child on your desk, and your colleague says, ‘Oh my God, your child is so cute. That’s fantastic! Can I see your phone to see all the pictures of your child?” You go, ‘No. That’s the picture I’m comfortable sharing with you,'” Markle explained in her tell-all 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“And then if they double down and say, ‘No, but you already showed me that one. So you have to show me everything. You know what, I’m just gonna hire someone to sit in front of your house, or hide in the bushes and take pictures in your backyard, because you lost your right to privacy…because you shared a picture with me. ”
Not only do the family want privacy, but they have also had issues with the British media allegedly using racial slurs against their children.
“Why would I give the very people who call my kids the N-word a photo of my child before I can share it with the people who love my child?” Markle, who is biracial, told The Cut in August.
While the Sussex children are keeping a low profile, Prince William and Kate Middleton were sure to have their family of five present for their Christmas card, which was released on Tuesday.
In the image, taken by Matt Porteous, the Prince and Princess of Wales and their three children – Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7 and Prince Louis, 4 – hold hands as they stroll past their Norfolk, England, home in casual outfits.
The royal children all wore shorts and short-sleeved shirts, while William, 40, and Middleton, also 40, paired their blue jeans with long-sleeved shirts.
“I’m sharing a new family photo for this year’s Christmas card!” the royals captioned the new photo on their Instagram and Twitter accounts.
Although the Sussexes and Wales are spreading holiday cheer, the families are currently at odds.
On Thursday, Netflix released Vol. 2 of the tell-all docuseries, ‘Harry & Meghan’, in which the youngest son of Princess Diana and King Charles III talks about his strained relationship with the rest of the royal family.
In one episode, Harry opened up about how William broke a pact they made to stop their offices leaking negative stories about each other to the press.
“William and I saw what happened in our dad’s office and we agreed that we would never let that happen to our office,” the father-of-two said.
“I would much rather be destroyed in the press than mess with this game or this trading venture, and to see my brother’s office do the same thing we promised we would never do, it was heartbreaking.”
Harry also said his big brother yelled at him when he told the family that he and the former ‘Suits’ actress would be stepping down from royal duties in 2020.
Buckingham Palace declined to comment on the series.
All six episodes of “Harry & Meghan” are now available to stream on Netflix.
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