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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s pal Misan Harriman seemingly shaded the royal family on King Charles III’s coronation day while wishing Prince Archie a happy birthday.
On Saturday, Harriman posted a screengrab from Harry and Markle’s Netflix reality series showing a baby Archie touching a photo of his late grandmother, Princess Diana.
“Wishing you the happiest of birthdays Archie ❤️,” Harriman captioned the photo, not-so-subtly pointing out that the young prince’s fourth birthday coincides with Charles’ coronation day.
King Charles and Princess Diana — who tragically died in a car accident in 1997 — famously had a tumultuous marriage, which ended in 1996 amid the monarch’s affair with now-wife Queen Camilla.
Many royalists remembered Diana on Saturday as she would have been crowned queen.
The Duke of Sussex arrived in the UK on Friday and attended his father’s coronation solo on Saturday.
Harry — who arrived at Westminster Abbey with his cousins Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie — smiled wide as he walked to his third-row seat for the ceremony.
It was announced last month that Markle would stay behind in California for Archie’s birthday.
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“There was no way that Meghan was going to miss her son’s birthday,” a source told us at the time.
Insiders also told Page Six that Markle thought it would be “inauthentic” for her to attend the event as tensions are still high between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the royal family following their bombshell documentary and Harry’s memoir, “Spare.”
A source recently told Page Six that Harry will hop on a plane as soon as the ceremony is over in order to make it on time for his son’s festivities.
Harriman, a Nigerian-born British photographer, is close friends with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and even appeared in their “Harry & Meghan” docuseries.
Harriman has photographed the couple and their children for momentous occasions including their second pregnancy announcement.
The London-based photographer opened up about the unique photo shoot which was done via Zoom because of Covid-19 restrictions.
“In the age of Covid, it’s impossible obviously for me to be there to shoot it, so technology came to rescue,” Harriman told “Good Morning America.”
“I was able to remotely take over the iPad and they could hear my voice and it was conversational and the rest really is history,” he continued.
“You don’t even see the image, you feel it, he explained. “They are lost in each other,” Harriman said of the photograph, in which Meghan is seen cradling her baby bump as she rests her head on Harry beside a massive tree.
Harriman also took the adorable photo of Princess Lilibet for her first birthday, which she spent in the UK during the Sussex family’s visit for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
Last month, the “Suits” alum made a surprise virtual appearance at Harriman’s TED talk.
“Our next speaker has an unmatched eye for a good photograph. I’ve experienced his talent firsthand as he’s captured many meaningful milestones for me and my family, and I know there are many others who share in this experience,” Markle began.
“His lens has photographed everything from events that have changed the world, invisible moments we all desperately needed to see, along with some of the planet’s most recognizable faces,” she continued.