Meghan Markle has reportedly managed to spark international interest with the birth of her two seemingly redheads.
This interest erupted shortly after the couple released their 2021 Christmas card that featured daughter Lilibet for the first time, alongside her redheaded brother Archie.
Many became fascinated with the impact of Prince Harry’s recessive gene in little Archie’s looks but scientists have pointed out that the MC1R redhead gene is one that needs to be inherited from both sets of parents for it to show itself in the next generation.
While lilly’s red hair has been attributed to Princess Diana’s side of the family, affectionately dubbed the Spencer gene, Meghan Markle’s redheaded ancestral gene has raised major public interest.
The chief scientist at BritainsDNA, Dr Jim Wilson, spoke to the Daily Mail regarding it all and claimed, "Families can carry a variant for generations, and when one carrier has children with another carrier, a redheaded baby can appear seemingly out of nowhere."
This means Meghan Markle’s side of the family would most definitely have had a fully red-haired member down the ancestral line.
For those unversed, on a global scale, there is only 0.5 percent, or 200 people, in the world who are redheads and they amount to only 40 million people.
Meghan Markle's modest $4,302/month converted garage with mother Doria – details (Photos)
Meghan Markle and her husband Prince Harry's stunning £11.2million Montecito home with their children Archie and Lilibet is undeniably luxurious, but the Duchess of Sussex lived in much more modest homes with her mother Doria Ragland as a child.
It was reportedly once the garage and loft space for the main property, and according to what appears to be a listing on Zillow, it is now estimated to be worth $1,233,200 to buy and $4,302 to rent, although the price has likely increased significantly since Doria and Meghan lived there.
Photos show three white garage doors at the ground floor level with space for parking out the front, while there were two windows and two doors on the upper level which we assume was Meghan's house. Steps lead up the side of the building, which was painted a pastel orange colour with terracotta roof tiles.
The listing shares a peek inside the two-bedroom home, which has wooden floors, a white kitchen with brown granite work surfaces and a small seating area on the balcony.
Meghan supposedly split her time between the flat and her father’s apartment behind the Hollywood strip until she left for college in 1999.
Her husband Prince Harry, meanwhile, was raised in Apartments 8 and 9 in Kensington Palace. The Duke of Sussex shared the beautiful family home with his older brother, Prince William, and their parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana. The young Harry and Willaim have been pictured playing in the playroom, which was located on the top floor, as well as their two bedrooms.
Luxury children’s design company Dragons and Walton Street put the space together and went for a red, white and green colour scheme with a strawberry print carpet.
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