Meghan Markle Shares a Never-Before-Seen Birth Photo (and Video) to Celebrate Lilibet’s Fourth Birthday

Since she rejoined Instagram at the very start of this year, Meghan Markle (apologies, Sussex) has given her followers a rare and privileged glimpse into her closely guarded private life. Here she is running barefoot on the beach; paying tribute to her dearly departed beagle, Guy; at lunch with her husband, Prince Harry; baking cookies with her kids; and shimmying to “Summer Renaissance” at a Beyoncé show. But now comes perhaps the most intimate insight of all: two family photos shared to mark her daughter Princess Lilibet’s fourth birthday.

The first shows the young royal in her mother’s arms, their hair blowing in the wind as they lie back on a boat, but the second is even more remarkable—a candid throwback shot of Lilibet as a newborn being cradled by Meghan. “Happy birthday to our beautiful girl!” the duchess wrote in the caption. “Four years ago today she came into our lives—and each day is brighter and better because of it. Thanks to all of those sending love and celebrating her special day!”

This was followed by two photos of Prince Harry with Lilibet, and then a video of Harry and Meghan dancing, with the latter heavily pregnant. Her explanation? “Four years ago today, this also happened. Both of our children were a week past their due dates… so when spicy food, all that walking, and acupuncture didn’t work—there was only one thing left to do!”