Moment beaming Prince Harry excitedly 発表するs birth of his son Archie in （映画の）フィート数 filmed just months before Megxit - with couple 始める，決める to celebrate his fifth birthday at home in California

This is the moment Prince Harry beamed as he 発表するd the birth of son Archie five years ago today - just months before Megxit

Little did the British public know that only seven months later, Harry and his wife Meghan Markle would step 負かす／撃墜する from their 役割 as 上級の 王室のs before depa rting to Canada in March 2020

Prince Archie, who turns five today, seen with his parents Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and his younger sister Lilibet in 2021

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Prince Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor 重さを計るd 7lb 3oz and was born at 5.26am in a room adorned with electric candles and a picture of Princess Diana?

Archie is seen sitting on his father's shoulders in an image that was 明らかにする／漏らすd in Harry and Meghan's Netflix 文書の

Archie walks along the beach with his mother and their pet beagle, Guy

'We'll be able to see you in two days' time as planned and be able to 株 it with you as a family and 株 it with you guys and so everyone can see the baby.'

'I 港／避難所't been at many births, this is definitely my first birth ? it was amazing, 絶対 incredible and as I said, I'm so incredible proud of my wife and as every father and parent would ever say, your baby is 絶対 amazing, so this little thing is 絶対 to die for so I'm over the moon.'

Because of the 王室の 不和, however, Archie only spent the first five months of his life within the UK, meaning that the US feels like 'home' for the young boy, as his father said 以前.?

詳細（に述べる）s of Archie's gilded life with his younger sister Lilibet, two, were 明らかにする／漏らすd in Harry and Meghan's Netflix 文書の series last year.

He was seen chasing seagulls at the beach, helping his parents 選ぶ oranges in the garden and playing with his two beloved family dogs ? Labrador Pula and a Beagle called Guy.

Archie was 以前 明らかにする／漏らすd to be …に出席するing pre-school and is 始める，決める to start 十分な-time education when he turns six. He could also be 入会させるd in 幼稚園 in the autumn now that he is five.

When Meghan was in 労働 at the 私的な Portland Hospital, Harry 明らかにする／漏らすd that he used the laughing gas meant for his wife to 静める his 神経s, and said the couple's 護衛s 配達するd them a takeaway Nando's.

The pair also listened to songs by German artist Deva Premal, who turned Sanskrit mantras into music, during the 配達／演説／出産.

Archie plays with a toy grand piano in an image that was 明らかにする／漏らすd in Harry and Meghan's Netflix 文書の

Archie with his mother Meghan on his モミ st birthday in 2020. He turned five today

Archie with his mother during her 王室の 小旅行する of South Africa with her husband Prince Harry

When the 収縮過程s quickened, Meghan hopped in a bathtub to 配達する the baby and had an epidural to help with the 苦痛 of 労働.

Harry said he held Meghan's 手渡す as she 押し進めるd to 配達する Archie, and 明らかにする／漏らすd she had a 複雑にするd birth, 述べるing his son's 長，率いる as 存在 '絡まるd'.

Once Archie was born, both his parents wept with joy. His first home was Frogmore Cottage 近づく Windsor 城.

A clip from the Netflix series showed him gazing up to his father from a baby rocker, whilst a photo showed him gazing up at his nanny Lorren Khumalo, who had wrapped him in a yellow and brown cloth ? 伝統的な in Zimbabwe.

Another emotive clip of the young 王室の showed Archie reaching to touch a photo of his late grandmother Princess Diana on his nursery 塀で囲む in Frogmore Cottage.

Meghan was hear 説: 'Who's that? Hey grandma.'

In October 2019, Prince Harry and Meghan 発表するd that they would be taking six weeks off 王室の 義務s for some 'family time' with their newborn.

They travelled to Canada, staying for a period on Vancouver Island.

By January the follow year, however, the pair said they would 'step 支援する as 上級の members of the 王室の Family' splitting their time between the UK and North America.

Harry and Meghan show baby Archie to his 広大な／多数の／重要な-grandparents, the late Queen and Prince Philip, and his mater nal grandmother Doria Ragland

Archie on the day of his christening in July 2019 with his parents and (from left to 権利) Queen Camilla, King Charles, Doria Ragland, Lady Jane Fellowes, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Prince William and Catherine, Princess of むちの跡s

Baby Archie seen in the 武器 of his grandmother Doria Ragland as she sits と一緒に Meghan and Harry at Frogmore Cottage

By March 2020, just before the pandemic sent many parts of the world into lockdowns, the couple and their young son had moved to Los Angeles.

In July that year, they moved into their Santa Barbara home, in Montecito, which 報道によれば cost them $14 million.

The home is の近くに to their celebrity friend Oprah Winfrey, 同様に as other showbiz 星／主役にするs such as Ellen DeGeneres, Katy Perry and her husband Orlando Bloom.

Harry and Meghan's 11-bed mansion sprawls over 20 acres of land, between the Santa Ynez mountains and the 太平洋の Ocean.

On June 4, 2021, the family welcomed Archie's younger sister Lilibet, who will turn three in いっそう少なく than a month.

In an interview with The 削減（する） magazine, Meghan told how Archie enjoyed pretending to be a doctor with a toy stethoscope and said one of his favourite things to eat is a quesadilla.

Other （映画の）フィート数 from the Netflix series shows the young 王室の showing off his musical talent, tinkling away on a tiny piano.

He is also seen calling a sunset 'beautiful' and watching a hummingbird with his father.

'We won't get a chance to be this の近くに to hummingbirds ever again,' Prince Harry told his son.

にもかかわらず asking his toddler to stay 静かな and watch the 野性生物, the toddler then exclaimed: 'I've got a dirty foot mama because I was with you!'

When his 広大な／多数の／重要な-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022, Archie and Lilibet remained in California and were cared for by their maternal grandmother, Doria Ragland, and their nannies.

Prince Archie is not believed to have spent any birthdays with his British family.

Before Archie's arrival, Meghan had a glitzy New York にわか雨 hosted by Serena Williams at The 示す, a plush uptown hotel.

Guests 含むing Amal Clooney and Gayle King enjoyed a flower-arranging class.

The five-day 祝賀, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, 刺激するd 批評 when it 現れるd that Meghan had flown to New York on a 私的な jet.