Meghan Markle’s Anniversary Post: An Inside Look at All The Easter Eggs

On Monday, Meghan Markle celebrated her seventh wedding anniversary with Prince Harry. On Instagram, the As Ever founder marked the occasion by sharing a look at the couple’s “love story” as shown through photos on a bulletin board. The post is captioned with a message of appreciation for the affection they have received from friends and from the public, and it contains plenty of never-before-seen images of the couple and their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet of Sussex. A source close to the couple told Vanity Fair that the photos include a sonogram of Archie and a photo taken within one hour of his birth back in 2019.

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“Seven years of marriage. A lifetime of stories,” Meghan’s caption read. “Thanks to all of you (whether by our side, or from afar) who have loved and supported us throughout our love story—we appreciate you.”

The photographs on the bulletin board are both personal and professional. There are a handful of photos from Meghan and Harry’s official engagement session with Alexi Lubomirsky in 2017, along with one from their wedding and another shoot he did with the couple in 2023. It also features a few behind-the-scenes looks from their friend Misan Harriman, and others from Chris Allerton, who captured major events for the couple in 2019 and 2020.

The photos show off their travels around the world, including a 2016 photo from Botswana that includes a shirtless Harry, one of the couple from their royal tour to Australia in 2018, with a photo showing the couple doing a hongi, traditional Māori greeting, in New Zealand during the same tour of the South Pacific, along with a few from their 2019 trip to Morocco.

In the section for 2021, Meghan shared a new photograph of Lili soon after her birth, next to an image of Meghan holding her two children on the floor in their Santa Barbara home. An especially cute photo shows Archie giving Lili a hug. There are few new photos showing all four members of the family, including one from 2022 taken in a grassy yard and another from 2024 showing them on a coastline.

The arrangement also featured easter eggs referencing the couple’s years together, along with references to Meghan’s longtime love for music from a previous generation. The 2018 section features a a sketch of the duchess’s crest, which went into their joint coat of arms. A note in the 2022 section reads, “We were together, I forget the rest,” a paraphrase of a line from Walt Whitman’s “Once I pass’d through a populous city,” a poem from Leaves of Grass about a brief relationship between a man and a woman.

In her now-famous calligraphic handwriting, Meghan also wrote out the lyrics to the Ben E. King song, “Stand By Me,” which played when the couple walked down the aisle of St. George’s Chapel in Windsor. In keeping with the theme of their recent date night at a James Taylor concert, the song’s inclusion on her sentimental present to Harry is a reflection for Meghan’s penchant for holding on to the music that reminds her of her youth.