There are only a handful of photos of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor’s little face. We got our first real look at him in the christening portraits, where he looked (to me) like Harry, only with Meghan’s eyes. For a while now, my theory is that his coloring is pale and freckled, with red hair and Meghan’s dark brown eyes. You never know with mixed-race kids, honestly. My mom is very fair with blue eyes and my dad was a medium-to-dark brown Indian man, and I ended up with very light brown skin. And I don’t have either parents’ eyes! My dad swore that I have his mother’s eyes but I don’t think so. My point is that you never know. But it’s looking more and more like the first biracial/African-American duchess gave birth to a little ginger baby. And that’s what People’s source says too:
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s son seems to have inherited his father’s most recognizable feature!
“He’s a happy baby,” a source tells PEOPLE of Archie, born May 6, in this week’s cover story. “He has lovely, puffy little legs and tufts of reddish hair. He’s really adorable.”
Just two days after Archie’s arrival, the new parents were unsure if he took after Mom or Dad more. “We’re still trying to figure that out,” Meghan said during their first outing as a family of three at St. George’s Hall in Windsor Castle (where the couple had their royal wedding reception a year earlier!). “Everyone says babies change so much over two weeks. We’re basically monitoring how the changing process happens over this next month really,” Harry added. “His looks are changing every single day so who knows.”
Do you think Archie will stay this way, with this coloring? Will he just look like his dad but with brown eyes? I think… probably. And maybe Archie will have an easier time out in the sun – maybe he won’t get sunburnt so easily. But really, who knows? I actually love stories about parents who thought their babies were going to look a certain way, or have a certain coloring and then it’s totally different. So many people thought Archie would have Meghan’s coloring and instead, we’ve just got another little ginger boy in the royal family.
Photos courtesy of Kensington Palace and Backgrid.
Whether Archie is a ginge or not he is gonna be a gorgeous kid because Meghan is a stunning woman, and Harry’s not too bad looking either 🙂
Yes but let’s hope they repress those Windsor genes which r strong.
I hope that for him as well!
@DU – yes! Those Windsor genes… but as a ginger – yay!
The ginger genes come from Diana’s side of the family (the Spencers), so hopefully that will dominate.
There’s red hair on the Windsor side too.
Yeah the Windsor genes are not good.
Digital…Lol!!
Red-haired genes are recessive. If Archie ends up a redhead it’s because BOTH Meghan and Harry carry the gene. And red hair exists throughout the world and isn’t limited to only white people.
Hopefully, at the very least, the red hair should stop the lunatics from starting the almost inevitable “He’s not Harry’s son!” rumours.
I’m actually really surprised that this isn’t a constant with Little George. He has brown eyes ( I think Louis does too). Both his parents have blue eyes. We’re taught in (basic) biology that this occurring is so rare it’s practically non existant. I’m pretty sure William is their father but I’m really surprised that ppl didn’t run with that.
Most people don’t realize that eye color is not one simple equation.
Kate has green eyes and William has blue eyes. Therefore there was a 25% chance of any child of theirs having brown eyes. It is interesting that 2 of their 3 kids have brown eyes, which doesn’t fit with the 25/75 split, but that is the fun of genetics.
My oldest son was born at 33 weeks with very whitish blonde hair. Then it turned to bright red when he was a few months old and then back to whitish blonde around one. At 6 his hair is now a dark blonde/light brown. So weird how things can change so much when they are young. He also has hazel/green eyes like his dad. As for my other kids. I have lighter brown eyes. My oldest daughter has lighter brown eyes while my youngest son has super dark brown eyes from my mom I’m guessing and my youngest daughter has eyes that can look blue or slightly green but they are not hazel like my sons.
With George both his parents have blue eyes, and all four grandparents also have blue eyes, and George has brown eyes. The thing is it’s scientifically impossible for blue/ or green eye parents to have a brown eyed child. On the eye chart it 0% chance of that happening. Of course miracles happen all the time and there might be another reason how it happened. But 0% are pretty low odds lol, so george having brown eyes would be a miracle, but it’s never brought up. You can google the eye colour chart.
Nic919…There is much more that goes into eye color. It’s not your basic genetic equation. 1 HH, 2Hh and 1hh… more complicated. Its a good possiblity that Archie has blue eyes. Meghan’s dad has blue eyes. Time will tell.
The only given is 2 blue eyed parents will have a blue eyed child. All else is up in the air. William has blue (rr) & Kate has green (Dr) their children can have any eye color. Same with Harry & Meghan. All 4 royal children are adorable
I am aware of the two components (HERC2 and OCA2) that play a factor in having brown eyes with blue or green eyed parents that go beyond the basic grid that gets taught in biology class. I didn’t use the basic equation so not sure why you are criticizing me. The basic equation would say it’s a zero percent chance anyway.
Nic919: Didn’t mean to offend you. However, if you used the basic equation Archie would have a 50% chance of blue eyes. Why: Meghan’s dad has blue eyes which means he could only contribute the recessive trait to her eye color. Doria would’ve contributed the dominate trait which means Meghan would be hetrozygous (Hh). Harry has blue eyes so he carries the recessive gene( hh). If you do the basic equation it would reflect the following: 2xHh and 2xhh. Just as an FYI. This is basic genetics you learn in high school. However, science has shown that eye color is more complicated so only time will tell!
Kate has hazel eyes, not blue. That greatly increases the chance of her children having brown eyes.
Agree, he’s a beautiful baby. Think Prince Harry is tickled pink he has his hair coloring. He could also be reddish-blond with olive skin, either way, he’ll probably be a handsome little fella.
I think his hair will eventually turn brown.
I mean Meghan isn’t a full black woman, so it’s pretty obvious that there’s a higher chance that Archie looks more white than brown. Though I do wish he has more coloring.
Yes and Meghan’s half brother has red hair.
Also, archie’s eyes looked dark blue to me in the christening photo.
Almost all babies start off with dark blue/slate gray eyes. After about 6-12 mos. they settle into the color they’re going to stay.
My kid’s eyes didn’t change until he was 2.5, when they went from blue to hazel.
My son’s eyes changed from blue-blue-blue, like his father’s to green, when he was 6!!!
@JustSayin’: in the latest color photos Archie’s eyes to me looked to be a really pretty dark green (I think Tom Sr. has green eyes)
As for Prince George, Kate’s father has brown eyes.
I’m not sure what ‘full black’ means. She’s Black enough to be the target of racists all over the world.
@Kerwood as in biracial. I understand that even though she’s biracial, she is treated as a black woman. I’m simply racially identifying what she is. There’s been a lot of discussions within minority groups about the one drop rule such as the black community. They’ve been discussing biraciality and what that means to black spaces. A lot feel like the images of black people are being erased by using biracials in forms of media which I agree with. Hollywood has been casting many actors who are white passing to play ethnic characters such as storm in marvel. It feels like there’s erasure of brown and black images. That’s why I cautiously identified what Meghan is.
@Jess I’m aware of those conversations. As far as I know, I’m biracial too. Like most people of African descent whose ancestors were part of the Atlantic slave trade, my White blood is more than likely the result of violence and sexual assault.
I view bi-racial or ‘mixed’ people as Black, unless they tell me they see themselves differently. They might be able to avoid some of the racism that ‘full’ Black people have to endure but, in the end, it catches up with them. As the preacher said, we might have gotten here on different boats, but we’re all in the same boat now’. Sister Meghan is learning that lesson and her son Archie will too.
In the Jim Crow U.S., Archie would have been legally black. It’s disgusting to think like that but in our current racist, xenophobic climate (U.S. & Britain), let’s not forget history. There are still communities where a non-royal of Archie’s ancestry would face discrimination.
Yeah, you’ll be hard pressed to find black descendants of slaves who are “full-black.” My parents are West Indian, my family is black and 23 and Me tells me i’m 52% black.
He’s a cute kid, and I think they’re gonna raise him to be happy and healthy. That’s all that matters as far as I’m concerned.
Meghan + Harry have the same nose. It’s quite bizarre.
We;ll they’re supposedly distant cousins because of some distant Markle relative.
Really? I did not know this! Well the BRF were always known for their inbreeding…
Are we quite certain those are their God-given noses?
Meghan’s is not. I’m pretty certain that is Harry’s original nose, though.
i do think so, Megan’s nose has looked the same in those younger pictures.
My nose did not finish getting its final shape until I was in middle school, my childhood nose looked different than my final, hooked nose. I’ll try to post a pic of Meghan’s.
I’m sorry I found only two the sun’s pics, I opened apart from the article, I hope the links pass:
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Never understood how people can say meghan had a nose job when her pregnancy weight made her nose look both bigger and wider, just like her childhood photos when she was chubbier. The weight gain made her nose spread, it wouldn’t have done that if she had a nose job.
@original_kelkybean lol. Meghan has a slightly thinner version of her mother’s nose and always has. 🙄
Meghan has a very obvious nose job, but Harry’s nose is original.
It is not obvious that Meghan had a nose job. It doesn’t appear that she’s had any work done on it at all. As JustSayn’ noted, her nose widened while she was pregnant and, if one really looks at her younger self without bias, one would see that it’s same nose.
JFC can we not with the assumptions about her nose? She has her mom’s nose. It’s slightly smaller, but it’s the same. Her nose looks the same as it did when she was younger. Y’all just looking for shit to talk. It’s ridiculous.
@Becks – she doesn’t have a very noticeable nose job. You see photos of her when she’s young and she has a combination of Thomas Markle’s and her mom’s.
Lots of rich and famous people have the same nose .
So true. Is there any woman in Hollywood who hasn’t at least slightly altered their nose? I’m only sad that it seems to be a work requirement.
LOL!
I think their faces are quite similar, actually. (Facial similarity can contribute to “love at first sight” feelings, in my experience. . . )
That baby is adorable, regardless of who he looks like.
Yes, he’s a doll.
Agree; he is so precious.
Those Windsor genes are strong so he will probably resemble Harry: tall, slim, ginger, just without the blue eyes. But I hope he has his mom’s beautiful smile.
I really see Harry’s eyes. Kids can be so different. My oldest has hardly changed from when he was was a baby. And the baby if the family, now 13, has changed so much. You never know.
I can’t wait to see him in more pics and see him grow. What a happy time for them.
Same with my older son, at 20 he looks exactly like he did when he was a baby. My other son has changed so much over the years but now at 18 he looks more like his dad, who is his tiny face resembled at birth. So strange how it all works.
I love redheads and I love dark eyes. My SO fits that description. I can’t explain it, but there’s that balance of redheaded goofiness and brooding realness that just makes me weak. I hope he grows into a genuinely good person to balance out what I’m sure will be heartbreakingly good looks, and with his parents there’s a very good chance he will.
I have 2 ginger sons with green eyes and fair skin. My husband favors the Italian coloring, dark hair and dark eyes. I am fair, with hazel eyes. I was shocked at our first red head, and totally blown away when our second had red hair! Not at all what I expected! You just never know 🙂
My mom and dad were both dark hair, one with brown eyes and one with hazel eyes. They produced 3 blonde, blue-eyed children. So nothing surprises me.
My niece has twins, one fair,one redhead, and the third boy as born brown haired , so she has a rainbow!
Emc. Ditto, no redheads close in either family tree my husband is blond I am a dark brunette and our older child is a redhead who facially looks like my husband. Our younger child is adopted so no one looks like me:)
I feel ya, mewastingtime! Other than the fair skin, wouldn’t even know they’re mine! They’ll take after us in other ways, I’m sure.
EMc, they are both very cute kids so I am good with that, but totally agree. My older one has a lot of my personality (which is both good and bad) and my younger one has exactly my speech cadence.
Features can change a lot during the first year. There’s no telling who Archie will look like when we see him during the tour. I just don’t like some people’s obsession with his coloring. Archie was not going to have dark skin. I think it’s weird to be disappointed because a baby doesn’t “look black”.
Yeah it’s a bit much. I don’t like it either but I guess it’s human nature?
They can change a lot, so who knows what he will eventually look like. My daughter was very fair and had dark blue eyes, with very fine to little hair like Archie, and it was a dark blonde. Her father is middle eastern, she didn’t look much like him. As a teenager she is still more fair than him, but more medium color and she can tan. Her eyes lost the blue they are now chocolate brown. Her hair changed the most. Her hair was so fine it almost wouldn’t cover her head when put up. I had long stopped brushing her hair and didn’t notice how thick it had become. It is now a beautiful dark brown too. You know the thick dark hair people envy on here, Amal Clooney like. She was always putting it up in a pony for sports, I didn’t really notice. Did wonder why she was breaking every hair tie though. Archie might change a lot from the baby to more Meghan’s coloring and hair too, who knows it is hard to say.
Most people assume the genes for darker hair, eyes, and skin are more dominant. I know I did. We look similar to them and had red heads, so I was wondering if they would, too!
My friend has a very dark skinned, black dad and a fair skinned, blue eyed white mom. She has blond hair, blue eyes and fair skin (although she tans easily) and her brother has their dad’s coloring. You wouldn’t think at first glance they are related except you can tell by their facial features that other than their coloring they do look alike.
I just had my 4th, who was born with jet black hair. It faded to brown already and I think I see red roots coming in. He’s got blue eyes. If his hair does fall out that means none of my kids took after me, unless you look closely like you said. One of my friends that looks very similar to me had a baby with a black man and the baby has a head full of red curls. It’s so interesting how our genes express themselves.
Hey esmom, how was it growing up for them? I’m mixed, my husband is a mix of a few things (looks most like his Italian side). One of my kids takes after my husband’s Swedish side and is pale as can be. My other is my twin in every sense. Was it tough for your friends?
One of my friends married a very handsome, chocolate complexion African American. His wife is white. They have four kids. Eldest is blonde with blue eyes. Middle two have chestnut colored hair and a light tan (they look Hispanic) and the fourth child has his father’s gorgeous complexion and his mother’s face, and now that he is reaching adulthood he legit looks like a GQ model.
Yes, it varies so much by kid. I have a friend who is of mixed Central American heritage; people generally presume she’s a light-skinned African-American woman. Her husband is white with fair skin but dark hair and eyes. Her two older kids look Latinx, but her youngest has stick-straight light brown hair, green eyes, and fair skin. People often assumed she was her youngest child’s nanny when the child was a baby, and it made her understandably crazy!
HelloSunshine, By all accounts they had a lovely upbringing seem to have had equal opportunities and success. They lived in a liberal east coast town. The dark-skinned brother now has a blonde, light-skinned, blue eyed toddler.
Are puffy little legs really that unique? They seem sort of like a known feature of babies in general. I’m not gonna be impressed by Archie’s unless he still has them at age 14.
Lol. I didn’t take that description as implying that his legs were unique, just that he was a typical, healthy baby.
I had black hair that turned red-brown then fell out and grew back white blonde then later became dark blonde / light brown (depending on how much time I spend outdoors). My sister started with white blonde hair which turned dark chestnut brown. I know multiple people who are really dark who started off as blondes. My friends have had two kids who were born with black hair (like their dad who has Maori and Pacific Islander heritage) then fell out and grew back white blonde. Babies and kids shift all over the place in regards to colouring and looks.
Look at Soledad O’Brien. She is mixed with an Afro Cuban mother and white Australian Dad. To me Soledad looks Latina . Her husband is white. Her children are so gorgeously different. One daughter looks straight up white- blue eyes and light brown hair. The other looks lihght skinned black. Her twin sons look different too, one looks black/biracial and the other looks all white. Genetics is unpredictable. But I think little Archie will turn out looking white with a slight tan.
I though Soledad’s father was Irish???
Australian of Irish descent.
There’s no one way to look Latin@ so I’m not sure what you mean.
It doesn’t matter what Archie looks like. He’s going to be the target of hate for his whole life. For racists, the ‘one drop rule’ rules.
I hope he grows up to be a happy, confident young man who is proud of his ENTIRE heritage and who uses his unique position to make a difference in the world.
@ Kerwood, AGREE! And very well said! His parents are definitely doing that, and I hope (and believe) they will provide a strong support system for him as he navigates his path. It’s going to come with it’s share of challenges.
Britain has no history of a one-drop rule, no gets classified like that, so he will be fine, and if we had that rule, the rest of his family on his father’s side is already caught by it, as are many Britons because we live in a melting pot.
The one drop rule came from Britain! My understanding is it originated from British slave owners in the Caribbean, specifically in 1709 where law was passed in Barbados prohibiting anybody with black ancestry from voting or testifying in court.
I’m uncomfortable with curiosity on how “black” or not Archie is and suspect that’s why press are so keen to see more of him even though we’ve probably seen him more than most royal babies at this stage. I too hope he escapes the balding genes!
Do people think the other daughter had exact same nose job as Meghan? As they seem to have very same nose- Meghan’s just seems slightly broader
@Rogue Thank you. The British seem to forget that they taught racism to much of the world.
@Rogue: She hasn’t had a nose job. Look at pictures of her from her teens, the nose is the same. Both Meghan and Samantha have their father’s nose.
That’S what I taught too. Like They’re meant to Kiss. Their noses looks quite àlike, with nearly thé same shape and lenght. They also have thé same lenght between their jaws and noses. Quite same with thé lips. It’s obvious in the b&w picture. Which is lovely btw!
We love you baby Archie
I’m here for the freckles!
I’d love to see more pictures of him. I can’t believe he’s five months old already. Soon they should start thinking about Baby Number 2.
Harry from a genetic prospective, is a rare gem with red hair and blue eyes. Archie would be in a very small group if he inherited his dad’s red hair and blue eyes not to mention mixed race. It’s possible! He’s a beautiful little boy regardless.
I have a childhood classmate who is biracial (mom white, dad black). He is a light skinned black man with tan skin and afro-hair. He married a white woman with blazing red hair. Both of the children have blazing red curly hair but tan skin. I think one of the kids does have blue eye, though.
Little Archie will probably have the coloring of the basketball player Blake Griffin. I’m just tickled about the red hair!
I’m biracial. Black mom and white dad. I got my mom’s hair texture but auburn and my dads skin color but with an olive tone. And bright hazel eyes. Genetics are weird. Haha. Their kid will be gorgeous.
Master Archie is a cutie. Simply a handsome baby.
I am genuinely baffled by this conversation surrounding Archies coloring… You guys are forgetting that Archie is not half black… hes only 25% black. His mom is half black and half white.
This conversation would make sense if it was a half/half situation.
Theres a VERY good (and strong) chance that Archie will continue and grow to look like a … white baby and eventually a white man.
Uhm, wut?
My kids are only 25% black and so are many of my cousins’s children. Only one of them looks stereotypical white. The rest of them are either clearly of black heritage i.e the same shade as their evenly biracial parents or they are ambiguously brown.
So I’m genuinely baffled by you being genuinely baffled.
I suspect he’s a little less than 25%; there’s a very good chance Doria has some white blood because some of her ancestors were slaves.
Comments like these are so frustrating on so many levels.
Archie so far looks like both Meghan and Harry to me. Cutie patootie 🙂
Thank you for putting thing into prospective…well stated!