Why Princes George, Louis And Princess Charlotte Didn’t Meet Archie for Two Months

Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor may have been welcomed into the world by parents Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in early May, but that doesn’t mean everyone in the royal family had a chance to meet him before his July christening.

According to royal correspondent Emily Andrews during a conversation with Yahoo’s Royal Box (via Daily Mail), Archie’s cousin, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis actually didn’t get a chance to meet him, until he was two months old, and the first time they were actually introduced was at the Billingbear Polo Club for a charity match the families attended in July.

“It was interesting actually, that polo match because it was the first time that Charlotte and George had actually met Archie,” she said. “They hadn’t actually met him for two months so that polo match was lovely.”

The Cambridge children were also famously absent from Archie’s christening a few days earlier than the polo match, though the chapel that the service was held in was notably small, and may have led to the children being taken off of the guest list as a result.

However, while it did take two months for the cousins to finally meet, it didn’t take quite as long for the rest of the family to meet him, though they didn’t meet him immediately either. Notably, it took approximately eight days before it was reported that Prince William and Kate Middleton even visited the newborn at Frogmore Cottage.

“Yes Kate and Will had been there to see Archie at Frogmore Cottage, but they hadn’t taken their children with them,” Andrews said. “So that was the moment at the polo match where all three of the Cambridge kids got to meet Archie,”

In addition, Archie’s grandfather, Prince Charles, and his wife, Camilla, were also delayed in meeting him due to other commitments at the time of his birth.