Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Christmas card gives a glimpse into their Californian life. As part of the card, the Sussexes included an adorable rare snap of their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet running towards them as they prepare to wrap the children up in a big hug. The couple have rarely exposed their children to the limelight and in the image, their faces are not shown as Lilibet, three, approaches her father while five-year-old Archie sprints to his mother.
But it's not just the couple and their children that feature in the family snap - their three pet dogs do too and it offers the first proper reveal of their newest dog, Mamma Mia. The beagle, called Mia for short, joined fellow beagle Guy and labrador Pula as members of the Sussex family two years ago.
Harry and Meghan adopted the now nine-year-old beagle from an animal shelter after she was rescued when the animal testing facility she had been living at shut down. She was taken in by an organisation called the Beagle Freedom Project based in California after being rescued.
Speaking at the time, Shannon Keith, who runs the project, said she was called by Meghan to register her interest in adopting a beagle. The couple then reportedly made an after-hours visit to the project, where they played with Mia and eight of her newborn puppies.
However according to Ms Keith, the couple was interested in the older dog - and not the younger pups. She told the LA Times: "The duchess is holding Mia and was like, ‘We’re adopting her'. She was like 'No, we don’t want a Christmas puppy. … We want ones we can help who are older.".
