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- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's daughter Lilibet isn't the first British royal baby born in the US.
- Lord Frederick Windsor and his wife Sophie Winkleman welcomed their daughter Maud in LA in 2013.
- Lilibet will qualify for dual citizenship in America and the UK.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle welcomed their daughter Lilibet Diana on Friday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, but she is not the first British royal family member to be born in the US.
Lord Frederick Windsor, Harry's cousin, and his wife Sophie Winkleman also welcomed their daughter Maud in 2013 while they were living in Los Angeles, California.
Insider's Mikhaila Friel previously reported that Winkleman married Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Queen Elizabeth II's first cousin Prince Michael, in 2009 and moved to Los Angeles the day after their wedding. The couple now have has two daughters, Maud, 7, and Isabella, 5.
People reports that Maud was born in August 2013 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, and the royal couple moved back to the UK later that year. Isabella was born in London in 2016, the publication added.
Winkleman has been likened to Markle by media outlets because both women are actresses who married members of the royal family.
She found acting success in Los Angeles while starring opposite Ashton Kutcher in "Two and a Half Men" between 2011-2015, much like Markle who became widely known for her role on "Suits," which she left following her engagement to Prince Harry in 2017.
The Daily Mail described Winkleman as a potential "blueprint" for the Sussexes, who moved to the US in March 2020, but Winkleman previously told Insider they are "terribly different people."
"I don't think you can compare us. She's on a humongous, mega, global scale, and that would be my idea of complete hell," the actress said. "I try to help my beloved causes at a very sort of roots level. I try and do it just by spreading the word organically through the people I know."
"But I wouldn't be able to cope with that level of intrusion for one minute. I've never been on Facebook, Twitter, any of it. I don't like the thought of it," she added.
Winkleman also told Insider that she kept her maiden name in favor of the name Winsdor so she could maintain a low profile while working in Hollywood.
"People in my business in America didn't know anything about it, because they'd just see 'Sophie Winkleman' on the sheet and I'd go and do the audition and then get the job or not," Winkleman said. "And they didn't find anything out about me. They just knew me from my acting, which was quite important to me."
Both of Markle and Harry's children were born without royal titles, due to a decree that states only the children and great-grandchildren on the direct male line of the monarch will receive one.
While Lili was not born in the UK, The Independent reports that she will qualify for dual citizenship in the UK and the US through her parents. Her 2-year-old brother Archie was born in the UK in 2019, making him a British citizen, but he can claim US citizenship through Markle.