For all of Harry and Meghan’s near-constant talk about needing their privacy, it is an unfortunate running theme that their every single action seems designed to elicit both headline inches and discussion as to what they’re going to do next. It also appears, alas, that their entire family are fair game for this kind of exposure, as can be seen by the news that their younger child, Lilibet Diana, was christened in California on Friday 3 March.
Yet the Sussex PR game is not a perfect one. It had to be clarified immediately that Lilibet’s christening was performed by the Episcopal bishop John Harvey Taylor, not the local Roman Catholic one: had the latter performed the ceremony, then she would have automatically been removed from the line of succession, in which she is currently seventh.
The mild provocation of their daughter’s names, with the Christian name being an allusion to Harry’s close relationship with the Queen, is nothing as compared to the fact that the announcement made pointed reference to her being Princess Lilibet Diana.
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