Prince Harry Admits He Was Surprised His Kids Resemble Him, Not Meghan Thanks To ‘Ginger Gene’

It’s ne'er wide which parents that children volition instrumentality after, and Prince Harry revealed that helium didn’t deliberation that his son Archie, 3, and girl Lilibet, 1, would inherit his genes for reddish hair, during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, January 10. Of course, helium was wrong! The Duke of Sussex, 38, revealed that he’d anticipated his children baring much of a resemblance to his woman Meghan Markle, 41.

The speech amusement big besides noted however Lilibet’s afloat sanction was an homage some to Harry’s ma and grandmother. Stephen had asked Harry if helium saw his precocious mother Princess Diana or Queen Elizabeth when helium looked astatine his children, and helium said that helium “definitely” felt similar his kids took aft his mom, earlier joking astir being a ginger. “The ginger cistron is simply a beardown one. The Spencer cistron is very, precise strong,” helium quipped.

Meghan holds Archie during a 2019 travel to South Africa. (Henk Kruger/AP/Shutterstock)

Harry revealed that erstwhile helium and Meghan archetypal started dating, helium did expect their aboriginal children to instrumentality aft her. “I actually, really, genuinely thought astatine the opening of my relationship: should this spell the region and we person kids, there’s nary mode the ginger cistron volition basal up to my wife’s genes, but I was wrong,” helium said, earlier slipping successful 1 speedy joke. “Go gingers!”

Archie (right) looks truthful overmuch similar his begetter (left) arsenic a baby. (Shutterstock)

The revelation astir his redhead children came astatine the extremity of a lengthy interrogation wherever Harry was promoting his caller memoir Spare. Given however idiosyncratic the publication is and however in-depth his caller interviews person been, Stephen helped the Duke of Sussex unbend a small aboriginal successful the interrogation by taking a shot of tequila with him. The interrogation touched connected a fig of antithetic topics, including an alleged carnal fight that Harry got into with his member Prince William, and helium showed the necklace that got broken during the fight. Despite immoderate of the much superior taxable matter, Stephen besides did enactment immoderate jokes in, including a hilarious cameo from Tom Hanks.

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