Harry and Meghan wish you a ‘happy holiday season’: Sussexes thank fans for ‘all the support in 2023’ as they release Christmas card showing the couple smiling at Invictus without Archie and Lilibet – a week after the Royal Family released theirs

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have released their family Christmas card for the year, wishing everyone a ‘happy holiday season’.

The Duke and Duchess used a photograph of them applauding, thanking their fans for ‘all the support in 2023’.

The release of the swanky card comes just hours after the Prince won £140,000 from the Mirror’s publisher after the High Court ruled he was a victim of phone hacking. 

The festive card showed the couple beaming at the closing ceremony of the Invicitus Games that took place in September in Dusseldorf, Germany. Their children, Prince Archie, 4, and Princess Lilibet, 2, did not feature. 

It comes almost a week after the Royal Family officially released their own Christmas cards. The King and Queen chose a Coronation photograph taken at Buckingham Palace to grace their festive card, which was sent to friends, family and colleagues.

Meanwhile William and Kate released a relaxed, monochrome family portrait, showing the pair beaming into the camera alongside their sons Prince George, 10, Prince Louis, five and Princess Charlotte, eight, who is sat in a chair at the front of the group.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have released their family Christmas card for the year, wishing everyone a ‘happy holiday season’

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle  released a video earlier this week showing Archewell’s 2023 ‘impact’

Meghan is wearing a dark green dress with her hair slicked back in a bun while her husband wore a black suit without a tie.

The message accompanying the card read: ‘On behalf of the office of Prince Harry & Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Archewell Productions and Archewell Foundation, we wish you a very happy holiday season.  

‘Thanks for all the support in 2023!’

It featured a highlight reel of some of the Sussexes’ best moments from the last year. 

Releasing a holiday card has become a tradition for the California-based royals. Last year, they chose a black and white photograph of them attending the Robert F Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award gala in New York City.

The 2022 card said: ‘Wishing you a joyful holiday season. From our family to yours, and on behalf of our teams at The Archewell Foundation, Archewell Audio, and Archewell Productions, we wish you health, peace, and a very happy new year.’

The digital card also linked to the couple’s annual Archwell Foundational impact report, which was released earlier this week alongside a slick video documenting some of the pair’s volunteer work.

The one-minute clip revealed people and causes their foundation has helped throughout 2023. The video shows them hugging veterans, packing bags for school girls in Nigeria and taking selfies with dozens of supporters.

It came just hours after the Princess of Wales had shared a clip of herself at a baby bank with Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

Meghan Markle, pictured at Variety’s ‘Power of Women’ gala where she teased ‘exciting’ new projects – but experts have said that Omid Scobie’s book could be bad news for her reputation and deal with WME

Mr Scobie and sources close to Meghan insist that she had nothing to do with the book, pictured right. But brand and culture expert Nick Ede says Meghan could look ‘guilty by association’ because the Sussexes have remained silent

It may have raised an eyebrow in some royal circles as while the Sussexes have shared similar videos in the past, it is not usually released until January.

The release of the video and card come as brand experts warned of the demise of ‘Brand Sussex’ following the fallout from Omid Scobie’s Endgame. 

The poisoned-penned book attacked the Royal Family and named Kate and King Charles as ‘expressing concern’ about Prince Archie’s skin tone before he was born. 

The Duchess had recently signed with William Morris Endeavor (WME)  mega agent Ari Emanuel, whose other clients include Meghan’s pal Serena Williams and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. 

But the agency is reportedly having second thoughts with experts telling MailOnline that her connection to Scobie’s new book could make her ‘too hot to handle’. 

Brand and culture expert Nick Ede told MailOnline last week that Endgame could be as dangerous for her career as Spare – her husband’s memoir – was for Prince Harry, claiming her representatives in LA will be worried she has ‘tarnished her reputation and could potentially damage the reputation of her agency’. 

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