{"id":301943,"date":"2026-02-17T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301943\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:40:09","slug":"princess-lilibet-embraces-this-princess-diana-hobby-in-sweet-new-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301943\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Lilibet Embraces This Princess Diana Hobby in Sweet New Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle shared a photo of her daughter Princess Lilibet wearing a ballet dress and tights.The mom-of-two&#8217;s late mother-in-law Princess Diana was also a lifelong fan of ballet.Diana even took secret dance lessons after marrying into the British royal family.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/meghan-markle-wedding-dress-11789370\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meghan Markle<\/a>&#8216;s latest photo of her husband <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/meghan-markle-prince-harry-relationship-11834849\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Harry<\/a> and her mini-me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/meghan-markle-princess-lilibet-birthday-tribute-11745958\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Princess Lilibet<\/a> included a subtle detail that called to mind her late mother-in-law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/princess-dianas-most-iconic-looks-5369926\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Princess Diana<\/a>. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/meghan-markle-rare-glimpse-lilibets-face-valentines-day-11907060\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valentine&#8217;s Day snapshot<\/a>, the four-year-old princess can be seen wearing a pale pink ballet dress and matching tights. Diana, of course, was also a longtime lover of dance.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Prince Harry held his daughter in the photo, who in turn held a bundle of red balloons. &#8220;These two + Archie = my forever Valentines,&#8221; Markle wrote in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUv7uQugYUl\/?hl=en\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caption<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p> Prince Harry holding his daughter Princess Lilibet.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram\/Meghan Markle<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Though Markle hasn&#8217;t shared any details about whether or not Lilibet is actually studying dance, her daughter was certainly dressed for the part. Lilibet thus appears to be taking after her grandmother, who was a frequent visitor to the National Ballet in London and who famously took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/princess-diana-found-freedom-through-dance-8723263\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">secret dance lessons<\/a> after marrying into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/british-royal-family-tree-8648198\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">British royal family<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p> Princess Diana meeting the cast of &#8216;Swan Lake&#8217; at the Royal Albert Hall in June 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cShe loved to\u00a0dance,&#8221; Anne Allan, author of Dancing With Diana: A Memoir, once told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/princess-diana-secret-dance-lessons-anne-allan-memoir-exclusive-8705347\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>. &#8220;The minute she started to move her arms, you could see the feeling that it brought her. She was able to be herself. She loved to move and loved to have fun.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p> Princess Diana and Wayne Sleep after a performance of &#8216;Song and Dance&#8217; at the Bristol Hippodrome in April 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Diana&#8217;s classes with Allan most famously resulted in a 1985 performance at the Royal Opera House with dancer Wayne Sleep. The pair danced a duet to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/billy-joel-suicide-affair-friends-wife-documentary-11749990\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Joel<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Uptown Girl,&#8221; and she was reportedly thrilled by the experience. &#8220;As she came off from the final bow,&#8221; Allan later called, &#8220;Diana said to both of us: &#8216;Beats the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/princess-diana-wedding-day-worst-day-of-life-11780761\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wedding<\/a>!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle shared a photo of her daughter Princess Lilibet wearing a ballet dress and tights.The mom-of-two&#8217;s late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-301943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}