A redhead, just like dear old dad! Prince Harry confirmed that Archie, his 5-month-old son with Duchess Meghan, has red hair — revealing the detail at the WellChild Awards in London on Tuesday, October 15.
Guest of honor Milly Sutherland, the recipient of the evening’s Most Caring Child Award, and her mother, Angela, asked the royal couple about Archie’s hair color at a reception before the ceremony. “Meghan said he has, and Harry said he definitely is [and] you can see it in his eyebrows,” Angela told Hello! magazine. “Harry said he’d had no hair for five months, but Meghan told him she had taken him to the playgroup and she said there were other children there with the same amount of hair or even less.”
Milly, 11, informed Harry, 35, that she was starring in a production of Aladdin and offered to paint him blue so that he could play the Genie. “So I’ll be blue with ginger hair — that’ll look nice!” Harry replied, according to the mother and daughter.
During the ceremony, Harry got choked up as he talked about his newfound appreciation for the annual awards for the charity that provides care for seriously ill children in the UK. “Every year, they never fail to surprise and inspire me, but this year it resonates in a different way because now I’m a father,” he said, his voice cracking with emotion. “Last year, when my wife and I attended, we knew that we were expecting our first child. No one else did at the time, but we did.”
After pausing to collect himself, he continued: “I remember squeezing Meghan’s hand so tight during the awards and both of us were thinking what it would be like to be parents one day, and more so, what it would be like to do everything we could to protect and help our child should they be born with immediate challenges or become unwell over time.”
After welcoming Archie in May, Harry said he is moved by the WellChild Awards in a way he “never could have understood” until he became a father.
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“No parent wants to hear that their child will suffer, that they will face extraordinary challenges that will affect them throughout their lives,” Harry said in his speech on Tuesday.
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“And yet, after meeting all the WellChild parents and the kids themselves over the years you have managed to give all of us a sense of optimism, a sense of hope and strength that no professional, no bestselling book and no amount of advice could ever give any of us,” Harry continued. “So thank you for being you.”
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According to the royal family’s official website, the WellChild Awards “celebrate the inspiring qualities of some of the country’s seriously ill young people, and the dedication of those who go the extra mile to keep children healthy and happy.”
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Harry and Meghan met with William Magee, a 10-year-old with Duchenne muscular dystrophy who designed a T-shirt with the tagline “Anyone can be a hero.”
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Harry also got some face time with Lyra-Rose O’Donovan, a 6-year-old who has undergone multiple surgeries for a life-threatening brain tumor but who “always has a smile on her face and a kind word to say,” according to the WellChild website.
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Meghan told Milly and Angela that Archie just had his first playgroup class and “loved it,” as Angela told Hello.
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The former Suits star wore the same green Parosh dress on Tuesday that she wore during her and Harry’s engagement interview in November 2017.
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Meghan got an enthusiastic embrace from one young admirer at the event.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also checked out a onesie that might be Archie’s size soon.
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