Meghan Markle shares incredible video of Harry dancing in hospital before Lilibet birth

To mark four years since their daughter Princess Lilibet was born, Meghan Markle has shared a video of her and Prince Harry trying to induce labour by dancing in a hospital room

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry reminisce on pregnancy experience

Meghan Markle has shared an incredible video of her and Prince Harry dancing as they try to induce labour for a very pregnant duchess before the birth of Princess Lilibet. The young princess celebrates her fourth birthday today with Meghan earlier sharing several never-before-seen snaps of Lilibet with both of her parents.

However, Meghan also took to Instagram today to share a throwback video showing her in a very late stage of pregnancy along with Harry dancing around a hospital room four years ago as they awaited the arrival of their daughter. In the clip Meghan, wearing a black dress, can be seen beginning to dance next to a hospital bed before Harry also appears on camera and shows off his moves to the track Baby Mama by social media star Starrkeisha.

He later puts up the hood of his top and dances alongside his wife, who can be seen with a cannula in her left arm. Accompanying the video, Meghan wrote: “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!”

The video comes just hours after Meghan posted intimate family photos of “Daddy’s little girl and favorite adventurer” Lilibet to mark her fourth birthday.

Meghan shared a black-and-white snap of herself cuddling Lili, who was sat on her lap, with the pair both sporting windswept hair, seemingly on a boat.

Another image showed Meghan tenderly cradling newborn Lili as she enjoyed skin-to-skin time with the new addition to her family in 2021. In a later post, she described how Lili’s relationship with Harry was “the sweetest bond to watch unfold”.

The duchess shared two further photos, showing the princess with her father the duke, adding: “Daddy’s little girl and favorite adventurer. Happy birthday Lili!”

Lili – the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s youngest child – was born on June 4, 2021 in California and was named Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.

She only became entitled to be a princess when her grandfather the King acceded to the throne, because of rules set out by King George V in 1917. Harry and Meghan started using prince and princess for Archie and Lili after the princess’s christening in 2023, following correspondence with Charles about the matter.

Lilibet is named after her great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Elizabeth had difficultly pronouncing her own name as a toddler and her grandfather George V would affectionately call her Lilibet, imitating her own attempts to say Elizabeth. The sweet nickname stuck and she became known as Lilibet to her family from then on.

In his memoir, Spare, Harry vividly recalls the intense moments in the minutes before his daughter was born. In an intimate recollection, he writes: “When the doctor said it was a matter of minutes, I told Meg that I wanted mine to be the first face our little girl saw.”

“I slid my hands under the tiny back and neck. Gently, but firmly, as I’d seen in films, I pulled our precious daughter from that world into this, and cradled her just a moment, trying to smile at her, to see her, but honestly, I couldn’t see anything.”

Harry also reveals his immediate thoughts upon meeting his daughter: “I wanted to say: Hello. I wanted to say: Where have you come from? I wanted to say: Is it better there? Is it peaceful? Are you frightened? Don’t be, don’t be, all will be well. I’ll keep you safe.”