Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet’s upbringing is disappointing: expose them to…

An insider has called Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet’s Californian upbringing ‘disappointing’.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have now made their base in Montecito following their departure from the Royal Family in 2020, and although they are regularly spotted out at engagements for the Invictus Games and other charities, their family life in the Golden State is generally kept under wraps.

But an insider said the couple have different ideas on parenting – with Meghan wanting to raise them as true Americans and expose them to little royal influence.

Hugo Vickers called their upbringing “disappointing” as it appears they don’t know about their bloodline and are both missing out on royal events.

He told The Sun: “There’s going to come a point when they realise that they are actually cousins to the British Royal Family, and that they could have taken part in all the sort of things that Prince William’s children take part in.

And you know they don’t, even, as far as I can see, know, their cousins at all, and that surely must be quite tricky and disappointing really, for them.”

The Duchess of Sussex, 42, has not been on UK soil since 2022 and made no attempt to return throughout 2023 and, so far, this year either.

It has also “never been confirmed” whether Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have ever met Princess Lilibet.

Although it was previously reported that she visited the UK in 2022 – and celebrated her first birthday at Windsor’s Frogmore Cottage – it has never been reported whether the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children have met her as the meeting may have happened behind closed doors.

King Charles has not seen Archie or Lilibet since June 2022, when Harry and Meghan brought them over for the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend and they haven’t met Meghan Markle’s father, either, who only lives 70 miles away.

Hugo said: “It’s really up to Prince Harry to make the effort. If he wants his children to meet him [Charles], he should make the effort to bring them across.

Simple as that. The King would, I’m sure, always make time for him if he did that, but there doesn’t seem to be a great willingness to do so.