Couple celebrated Lilibet turning three with party in Montecito at weekend

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s daughter has just turned three years old.

On Tuesday 4 June, Princess Lilibet Diana may have officially turned three, but her parents, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got a jump start on the celebrations and had a party at their home in Montecito, California over the weekend, according to People.

The outlet reported that those in attendance included both family members and the toddler’s friends. This is the second time Harry and Meghan, who also share five-year-old Prince Archie, have celebrated Lilibet’s birthday in the US instead of the UK.

At the time of writing, no members of the royal family have wished Lilibet a happy birthday.

The young princess was originally named after Harry’s grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died in 2022. Lilibet was the late queen’s nickname, while the two gave her the middle name Diana after Harry and the Prince of Wales’ late mother. Her birth announcement, shared on the Archewell Foundation website, also explained that the couple would be using the nickname Lili.

Both Lilibet and Arthur were without royal titles upon birth because they were the great-grandchildren of the monarch at the time. Due to King Charles ascension to the throne, they then became the grandchildren of the monarch which allows for titles according to King George V’s Letters Patent in 1917 that reads: “… the grandchildren of the sons of any such sovereign in the direct male line (save only the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales) shall have and enjoy in all occasions the style and title enjoyed by the children of dukes of these our realms.”