The Princess of Wales is content with three children but her friend Lady Melissa Percy now has a magnificent seven. The Daily Mail's Diary Editor Richard Eden understands that the Duke of Northumberland's 37-year-old daughter gave birth last Friday to her second girl.
![[Missy and Remy are based in the US and split their time between homes in New York and a 6,000 acre ranch in Georgia]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/08/19/93882353-14264013-image-a-84_1736363319160.jpg)
'Missy', as she's known to chums, also has twin sons with her second husband, Remy Trafelet, an American billionaire 17 years her senior. 'They have called her Ivy,' a friend told Mr Eden. 'She was born in Florida.'. Lady Melissa, who grew up at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, which doubled as Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films, met the hedge fund tycoon after she divorced Thomas van Straubenzee, Princess Charlotte's godfather, in 2016.
![[Pictured: Remy and Melissa attend the Atlantic Salmon Federation New York Gala at the Plaza on 13 November 2019 in New York City]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/08/19/93882645-14264013-image-m-101_1736363623870.jpg)
Prince William, 42, and Prince Harry, 40, were among the guests at their wedding three years earlier. Missy gave birth to her elder daughter, Bluebell, in 2020, and to her twin sons, Percy and Alfred, in 2023. She also has three step-children, Remy, Charlotte and Franny, from Trafelet's first marriage.
![[Pictured: Princess Eugenie, Lady Melissa Percy, and Carole Middleton during day two of Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse, Berkshire in 2024]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/08/19/93882507-14264013-Pictured_Princess_Eugenie_Lady_Melissa_Percy_and_Carole_Middleto-m-87_1736363433937.jpg)
Hogwarts heiress Lady Melissa Percy (pictured right with Chelsy Davy at Princess Eugenie's wedding) has given birth to her second child. Lady Melissa has spoken of her love for the USA, declaring to her father at a young age: 'Don't ever expect me to live in England. I much prefer the American way of life.'.
The 37-year-old divorced her first husband Thomas after less than three years in 2016, after parting ways the year prior. Speaking previously about the divorce, Lady Melissa told YOU magazine: 'I knew it was right but it was a very hard thing to go through.
