Prince Archie celebrates his 7th birthday 5,000 miles away from the Royal Family – as expert claims his birth gave Harry and Meghan the ‘energy to stand up for what was right for them’

Prince Archie will today celebrate his seventh birthday more than 5,000 miles away from the Royal Family, who have only met the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s son a handful of times. 

When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made the unprecedented decision to give up their royal roles in 2020, it was unknown what the future would look like for their son Archie, who at that time did not hold a title.

Yet, according to royal biographer Omid Scobie, it was actually Archie that gave the Duke and Duchess of Sussex the courage to leave the Royal Family in the first place.

The young royal, then only eight months old, motivated his parents ‘to stand up for what was right for them, regardless of what the consequences,’ he claimed.

Mr Scobie previously told People that both Harry and Meghan had been ‘quite afraid of the consequences of stepping away and challenging the system’.

‘As we have seen, those consequences have been pretty major,’ he added.

In the years that followed the Sussexes’ notorious exit from The Firm, Harry has spoken on numerous occasions about his desire to break the cycle of genetic trauma he suffered as a ‘Spare’, and how he hopes to avoid his parents’ previous ‘mistakes’.

During a candid conversation with Dr Gabor Maté in 2022, the prince revealed: ‘We only know what we know, and for myself and my wife we do the best we can as parents – learning from our own past and overlapping those mistakes, perhaps, and growing… to break that cycle.

‘You certainly don’t make friends in the process, in the short term.’