Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Christmas card features an image that sends a telling message about his own childhood, according to an expert. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex shared a rare picture of their two children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet as part of a series of images for their official Christmas card. Meghan and Harry are shown in the outdoors about to hug the youngsters as their son and daughter run into their arms. 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.
And for body language expert Judi James, the photo is designed to showcase their tactile family love, something Harry in the past said he did not receive, especially from his father King Charles, as detailed in his memoir Spare. In the book, Harry claimed his dad did not hug him when he told him his late mother Princess Diana had tragically died.
And Judi told the Mirror: "This pose tends to show how far Harry and Meghan have moved away from their first Xmas card with Archie. Back then it was Arching face-on and close up to the camera, very much the star of the pose, as his two casually dressed parents watched adoringly in the background.
"Here though the emphasis is on privacy with the children shown from back view only, rushing into their parents' arms as though finding their security and love there. It's a very evenly balanced pic in terms of tactile family love, which would be important to Harry given his own childhood.
