Prince Harry and Meghan Markle pictured under an umbrella attending The Endeavour Fund Awards at Mansion House on March 5, 2020
It's been almost two months since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's daughter was born.
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  • Prince Harry's daughter was added to the line of succession on Buckingham Palace's website.
  • Lilibet Diana, the second child of Harry and Meghan Markle, was born on June 4 in California.
  • Unlikely to ever see the throne, Lilbet is now eighth in line behind her brother Archie.
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Buckingham Palace updated its line of succession to the throne on Monday to include Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's second child, almost two months after her birth.

Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on June 4 at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in California. Behind her older brother Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, Lilibet is eighth in line to the throne.

Her birth shifts the line of succession, according to Buckingham Palace, moving Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, into ninth place.

However, Buckingham Palace took 52 days to update the website detailing the line of succession. Chris Ship, Royal Editor for ITV, released an episode of his Royal Rota podcast on Friday calling attention to Lilibet's previous absence.

"You have got to ask what has taken them so long," he said. "All they have got to do is hit the paragraph button and put in a different number."

"They must have done it before. They did it for Archie. Clearly they did it for Louis when he was born," he noted. "So where's Lilibet? I can forgive them a week or two but a month?"

Prince Harry pictured with his wife Meghan Markle and son Archie on a trip to South Africa in 2019.
Lilibet's older brother Archie is seventh in line to the throne, while Prince Harry is sixth.
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According to the Daily Mail, Archie's name was added 15 days after he was born on May 6, 2019, and Prince Louis, the youngest child of Prince William and Kate Middleton, was added 12 days after he was born on April 23, 2018.

In an email to Insider, royal correspondent Robert Jobson said that "it makes no difference" that the website had not been updated.

"As the legitimate daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex Lilibet is next in eighth in line to the throne after her brother Archie," he explained.

"Unless there is legislation to stop Prince Harry taking his place in the line of succession and he denounces the rights of his children, that will remain the case, unless the Duke of Duchess of Cambridge have another child," Jobson added.

Nigel Cawthorne, author of "Prince Philip: I Know I Am Rude," told Insider that there could be a few reasons as to why it took nearly two months for Buckingham Palace to update the line of succession. "Buckingham Palace is a bureaucratic machine that works at its own pace," he said.

"There could, of course, be COVID delays," Cawthorne said. "But given the continuing royal turbulence around the Sussexes such as Harry's surprise memoir deal and naming the baby Lilibet, it is certainly a possibility that courtiers are working to rule on this matter."

While the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first-born Archie has a profile feature on Buckingham Palace's website, Lilibet has also yet to have one of her own published.

Buckingham Palace representatives did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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