Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have released their family Christmas card for this year, wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.
The Duke and Duchess used a photo of themselves clapping and thanking their fans for “all the support in 2023” in the professional online greeting from their non-profit organization, the Archewell Foundation.
The release of the chic card comes just hours after the Prince won £140,000 from the publisher of the Mirror after the High Court ruled he was the victim of phone hacking.
The couple can be seen beaming during the closing ceremony of the Invicitus Games that took place in Düsseldorf, Germany in September. Their children, Prince Archie, 4, and Princess Lilibet, 2, were not present.
It comes almost a week after the royal family officially released their own Christmas cards. The King and Queen chose a coronation photo, taken at Buckingham Palace, as the centerpiece for their festive card, which was sent to friends, family and colleagues.
Meanwhile, William and Kate have released a relaxed black and white photo. It showed the couple beaming into the camera alongside their sons Prince George, 10, Prince Louis, five, and Princess Charlotte, eight, who sat in a chair at the front of the group.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have released their family Christmas card for this year, wishing everyone a ‘Happy Holiday Season’
The Prince and Princess of Wales have chosen a relaxed personal photo, taken by Yorkshire photographer Josh Shinner, for this year’s Christmas card
The King and Queen’s Christmas card is a much more formal affair, showing Charles and Camilla at Buckingham Palace shortly after the coronation in May
The three men are dressed in matching plain shirts – George opts for a Ralph Lauren Polo number – and dark trousers, while Kate and Charlotte have swapped the trousers for jeans.
In the cheerful photo released today by Harry and Meghan, the Duchess wears a dark green dress with her hair in a bun, while her husband wore a black suit without a tie.
The message on the card read: ‘On behalf of the Office of Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Archewell Productions and Archewell Foundation, we wish you a very Merry Christmas. Thank you for all the support in 2023!’
It featured a highlight of some of the Sussexes’ best moments from the past year.
Releasing a Christmas card has become a tradition for the California-based royal family. Last year, they chose a black and white photo of them at the Robert F Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award gala in New York City.
The 2022 card read: ‘I wish you happy holidays. From our family to yours, and on behalf of our teams at The Archewell Foundation, Archewell Audio and Archewell Productions, we wish you health, peace and a very Happy New Year.”
However, in 2021, a more family-oriented card was released showing the couple with their two young children.
The smiling family of four were seen in matching denim with Meghan sporting a polo collar and holding baby Lilibet in the air.
The Welsh children helped their mother and volunteers choose donations and make boxes for children in need at Christmas. From left: Louis, Kate, George and Charlotte
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle released a video earlier this week showing Archewell’s ‘impact’ for 2023
This year’s digital map was also linked to the couple’s annual Archwell Foundational impact report, which was released earlier this week alongside a slick video documenting some of the couple’s volunteer work.
The one-minute video focused on people and the causes their foundation helped in 2023. The video showed them hugging veterans, packing bags for schoolgirls in Nigeria and taking selfies with dozens of supporters.
It came just hours after the Princess of Wales shared a video of herself in a baby couch with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
It may have raised an eyebrow in some royal circles because while the Sussexes have shared similar videos in the past, it usually isn’t released until January.
The release of the video and card comes after brand experts warned of the demise of ‘Brand Sussex’ following the fallout from Omid Scobie’s Endgame.
The poisoned book attacked the royal family, naming Kate and King Charles for ‘raising concerns’ about Prince Archie’s skin color before he was born.
The Duchess had recently signed with William Morris Endeavor (WME) mega-agent Ari Emanuel, whose other clients include Meghan’s friend Serena Williams and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.
But the agency is reportedly having reservations with experts telling MailOnline that her connection to Scobie’s new book could make her ‘too hot to handle’.
Brand and culture expert Nick Ede told MailOnline last week that Endgame could be as dangerous to her career as Spare – her husband’s memoir – was to Prince Harry. reputation of her agency’.
Meghan Markle, pictured at Variety’s ‘Power of Women’ gala, where she teased ‘exciting’ new projects – but experts have said Omid Scobie’s book could be bad news for her reputation and her deal with WME
Mr Scobie and sources close to Meghan claim she had nothing to do with the book, pictured right. But brand and culture expert Nick Ede says Meghan could look “guilty by association” because the Sussexes are silent
The video seemed to be an attempt to portray the couple as global players, with a hands-on attitude.
It includes footage of Meghan’s visit to the Fisher House Foundation in Los Angeles, as well as the couple’s calls to entrepreneurs, visits to New York to speak at a mental health summit and a trip to the Marcy Lab School in Brooklyn in 2023.
Another clip shows workers rebuilding a playground in Uvalde, Texas, after a massacre that killed 21 people, including 19 children, in 2022.
A third from August showed Harry and Meghan calling young entrepreneurs to tell them that the initiatives they run had received a share of $2 million in grants.
Glossy footage also shows a glamorous Meghan hosting a panel discussion at the World Mental Health Day Festival, which marked their first-ever in-person event for the Archewell Foundation.
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