{"id":484304,"date":"2026-02-22T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484304\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T18:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:57:08","slug":"prince-william-and-kates-secret-gift-for-lilibet-amid-ongoing-feud-royal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484304\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William and Kate\u2019s secret gift for Lilibet amid ongoing feud | Royal | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/a> and Princess Catherine<\/a> sent a sweet gift to their niece Princess Lilibet<\/a> following her birth in 2021, a new royal book has revealed. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry welcomed their daughter a year after stepping down as working royals and moving to begin a new life in California.<\/p>\n

It remains unknown if Catherine and William have ever met their niece, with the couple having spent little time with Harry and Meghan’s son, six-year-old Prince Archie. According to the Daily Mirror<\/a>‘s royal editor Russell Myers’ upcoming book, titled William & Catherine: The Intimate Inside Story<\/a>, which will be released later this month, Catherine and William acknowledged Lilibet’s birth by sending a card and gift to Meghan and Harry in the States despite their ongoing royal feud.<\/p>\n

Extending an olive branch to Meghan and Harry, Mr Myers wrote: “William and Catherine sent a gift and a card of congratulations – although that would be the extent of their contact.”<\/p>\n

Catherine was previously asked about Lilibet during an engagement just days after her birth.<\/p>\n

In a TikTok<\/a> posted by CBS News back in June 2021, Catherine was asked if she had met Lilibet \u2013 and if she had one wish for her.<\/p>\n

She said: “I wish her all the very best. I can’t wait to meet her, because we haven’t yet… met her yet, so hopefully that will be soon.”<\/p>\n

She was then asked if she had met Lilibet via a video call, to which she replied: “No, I haven’t. No.”<\/p>\n

Back in June 2024, Meghan and Harry marked Lilibet’s third birthday with a party at their home in Montectio.<\/p>\n

With guests such as Katy Perry and her daughter Daisy reportedly in attendance, no members of the Royal Family are thought to have been invited.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Mirror at the time, royal author Tom Quinn said: “Shockingly no invitations to Lilibet’s party were issued to members of the Royal Family”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William and Princess Catherine sent a sweet gift to their niece Princess Lilibet following her birth in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,5434,122194,24639,194478,5416],"class_list":{"0":"post-484304","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-prince-william","11":"tag-princess-catherine","12":"tag-princess-lilibet","13":"tag-princess-of-wales","14":"tag-royal-family"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}