The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are parents to 6-year-old Prince Archie and 4-year-old Princess Lilibet

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• Meghan Markle celebrated Prince Harry on Father's Day 2025 by sharing an Instagram video tribute featuring rare family footage of him with their two kids

• The Duke and Duchess of Sussex share son Prince Archie, 6, and daughter Princess Lilibet, 4

• Father's Day falls a few weeks after Prince Harry said his father King Charles "won't speak to me because of this security stuff" after he lost a key legal appeal to restore his U.K. protection

Meghan Markle is showing love for Prince Harry on Father's Day.

On June 15, the Duchess of Sussex, 43, shared an Instagram video tribute featuring rare family footage of her husband, 40, with their two kids. Harry and Meghan, who marked their seventh wedding anniversary in May, share son Prince Archie, 6, and daughter Princess Lilibet, 4.

“The best,” Meghan captioned her post. “Happy Father’s Day to our favorite guy ????.”

The post was set to “Have It All” By Jason Mraz. In much of the footage, Harry is seen laughing and playing with Archie and Lilibet, following after Archie as he rides a bike and holding his children in their younger years. 

The Duchess of Sussex rejoined social media at the start of the year and uses her personal Instagram handle @meghan to share updates about her professional ventures, her family's private world and her children's milestones.

Prince Harry and Meghan are raising Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet outside of the spotlight in Montecito, Calif., after stepping back from their royal roles in the U.K. in 2020.

Both kids are growing up with Harry’s red hair. The Duke of Sussex has said he believes Archie and Lili's red tresses come from his later mother Princess Diana's side of the family, explaining that the Spencer genes are "very, very strong."

Harry shared the insight while appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2023, where he said, "Definitely my mum," after being asked if he sees any family members in his kids.

"The Spencer gene is very, very strong," Harry said on the show. "I actually really, genuinely thought at the beginning of my relationship [with Meghan] that should this go the distance and we have kids, that there's no way the ginger gene will stand up to my wife's genes, but I was wrong! Go gingers."

Harry and Meghan recently took their kids to Disneyland to celebrate Lili's fourth birthday on June 4, a trip reminiscent of Princess Diana bringing Prince William and Prince Harry to Disney World in Florida in 1993.

The Duchess of Sussex's weekend plans changed after the Los Angeles museum gala she was set to attend on June 14 was postponed amid protests in the city against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. Meghan was set to be honored at the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County’s Night of Wonder gala and recognized for her work championing women and underserved communities, and she was expected to deliver remarks.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are celebrating Father's Day as Prince Harry navigates his relationship with his own father, King Charles. The rift first became public when Harry and Meghan stepped back from their royal roles in the U.K. in 2020, and the stakes were raised after Harry lost a pivotal legal appeal to restore his state-funded security in the U.K. on May 2.

Prince Harry has long maintained that as head of state, his father could help reinstate the essential protection he seeks. He told the BBC in an explosive interview that King Charles "won't speak to me because of this security stuff" but that he still wishes to reconcile.

"I would love reconciliation with my family. There's no point in continuing to fight anymore," the Duke of Sussex said then.

"Life is precious. I don't know how much longer my father has," he continued, alluding to King Charles' cancer diagnosis announced in 2024 and continued treatment. "He won't speak to me because of this security stuff, but it would be nice to reconcile."

The palace has consistently denied the idea that the King has the power to restore the elite security Harry seeks. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex brought their children back to the U.K. just once following their U.S. move for Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022.

In a May 2 BBC interview, Harry also said that he "can't see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the U.K. at this point" without the key security.