The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, also known as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, presented their 2-day-old son to the world on Wednesday afternoon.
The baby, wrapped in a delicate, cream-colored blanket and wearing a white knit cap, slept through his first interview in his father’s arms.
His name, the subject of avid speculation and a substantial betting market, was announced later in the day: Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
“It’s magic,” the duchess said, when asked about motherhood. “I have the two best guys in the world, so I’m really happy.”
The baby, she said, “has the greatest temperament in the world; he’s really calm.”
“I don’t know who he gets that from,” his father said.
The infant’s other pressing business of the day was to meet Queen Elizabeth II, his great-grandmother. The couple shared a photograph of the queen and Archie on their Instagram account when they announced his name.
It was difficult to ascertain much about the baby from the three-minute “media moment,” and when a journalist asked Prince Harry to show his son’s face to the cameras, he complied with an almost imperceptible tilt. Asked whom the baby takes after, Harry said, “We’re still trying to figure that out.”
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