Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son Archie has been given a starring role in his parents’ explosive Netflix documentary.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s three-year-old son have appeared in each of the three episodes of their television series, which landed on Netflix at 8am today.
In the first episode, the couple shared a touching home video of their son – who was just a few months old at the time – reaching out to touch a photo of Princess Diana hanging up on his nursery wall.
The footage – which appears to have been filmed on an iPhone in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Frogmore Cottage home – shows Archie babbling away as Meghan says: ‘Who’s that? Hey grandma!’
After her baby son reaches out to touch the black-and-white portrait, Meghan said: ‘Yeah – that’s your Grandma Diana.’
Later on in the episode, the mother and son are seen holding hands and running through what looks like the garden of their Montecito home together.
In the second episode, the couple then shared a strikingly intimate moment of the mother-of-two appearing visibly emotional as she gives her son a kiss on the lips.
The footage – which appears to have been taken after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as working royals in January 2020 – shows Meghan cuddling her son in a new nursery.
The Duchess is then heard speaking about being the ‘product of divorce’ as the heartwarming clip plays in the background.
Moments later, Prince Harry is seen taking his son for a walk in an area that appears to be near their home in Montecito.
As his three-year-old son walks ahead of him, Prince Harry is heard singing Heigh-Ho from Snow White.
Elsewhere, the toddler is seen happily walking along a path with the family’s black labrador before telling his dad: ‘Archie is running away!’
It then jumps to a clip of the father and son back at their home in Montecito, where Prince Harry is admiring some hummingbirds.
‘We won’t get a chance to be this close to hummingbirds ever again,’ Prince Harry tells his son. As Meghan films them both, Archie then asks: ‘Why?’
Despite asking his toddler to stay quiet and watch the wildlife, the toddler then exclaims: ‘I’ve got a dirty foot mama because I was with you!
Trying her best to stifle her laughter, Meghan tells him: ‘You’ve got a dirty foot, sweetheart. Papa is a birdwatcher so this is a really big moment for him.’
The docu-series then jumps to a clip of Prince Harry reading their son a storybook on the sofa.
Earlier on in the episode, Prince Harry says off-camera: ‘My son, my daughter, my children are mixed race and I’m really proud of that.
‘When my kids grow up and they back look at this moment and they turn to me, they say, “what did you do in this moment?” I want to be able to give them an answer.’
The image of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex celebrating their little boy’s big day is among the first royal fans have seen of Archie as the couple has been notoriously private about him.
However, in the first episode of their new £100million Netflix documentary, they shared a series of photographs and clips of Archie, including him seeing snow for the first time.
Highly personal clips show him running on the beach, at their home, and the couple snuggling up with the toddler.
In one clip, the little boy described a sunset as ‘beautiful’.
In another moment, he can be seen running along as the couple walks around the grounds of their $14million mansion in California.
Meghan said: ‘We’ve been really conscious about protecting our kids as best we can and also understanding the role they play in this really historical family.’
Another clip shows a baby Archie being rolled around on a suitcase at home, while in another Meghan discusses putting him and his sister Lilibet down for the night.
The couple had been reported to have tried to push the series back to 2023 despite the streaming giant paying them a rumoured $100million (£88million) for the fly-on-the-wall documentary.
There have been mixed reports, with the couple reportedly ‘at odds’ with the production staff on their Netflix docuseries because the ‘panicked’ pair want to make ‘such extensive edits’ that the team believes the project could be ‘shelved indefinitely’.
