Mexican channel gets mixed up, says Harry Styles is father of royal baby

While broadcasting the first glimpse of the firstborn of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, a Mexican channel said that the parents of Royal Baby Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor were "Harry Styles and Meghan Markle."

• By: Trends Desk
• New Delhi | Updated: May 10, 2019 02:33 PM IST
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One Direction fans loved the gaffe and said they always knew he was royalty!

UK’s Prince Harry was all over the news as he and his wife welcomed their first child into the world, while in the US, pop star Harry Styles was making headlines for his look at the Met Gala. Perhaps, this was a mix-up we should have seen coming.

So while broadcasting the first glimpse of the firstborn of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, a Mexican channel said that the parents of Royal Baby Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor were “Harry Styles and Meghan Markle.”

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Not surprisingly, a screengrab of the error was caught and shared widely on Twitter.

The hilarious gaffe left everyone in splits and it led to many jokes online. Many fans of Styles reacted to the news with GIFs.

https://twitter.com/Arctos89/status/1126566611639504898

https://twitter.com/grudghes/status/1126421452050165761

https://twitter.com/fallinallinhood/status/1126444215439958021

https://twitter.com/casclouds/status/1126335625190207488

Prince Archie is seventh in line to the British throne and is Queen Elizabeth II’s eighth great-grandchild.

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