Princess Eugenie Just Shared a Never-Before-Seen Video of Her Baby Daughter, and Her Anniversary Message Will Melt You
Royal fans got a rare treat this week, and it came wrapped in a wedding anniversary message. Princess Eugenie marked eight years of marriage to Jack Brooksbank on October 12 with a never-before-seen video of their baby daughter, and the tender clip has royal watchers reaching for the tissues.
The princess shared the footage on Instagram, showing Jack gently holding two-month-old Adelaide, softly rubbing her head and patting her back as the baby rested against his chest. And it was Eugenie’s caption, not just the video, that turned the post into a proper love story.
“Happy 8 years married my love,” she wrote. “What you can’t hear in this video is Jack asking our daughter if she likes her head being massaged that way… so thoughtful, caring, and best Dada there is to our 3. Couldn’t have wished for a better partner.”
Followers flooded the comments with congratulations, and honestly, it is easy to see why. Between the cozy footage and that caption, the whole post reads like a private family moment Eugenie decided to let the rest of us peek into for just a minute.
The sweetest detail in the video
The clip itself is simple. Jack is seen gently rocking Adelaide while she gazes toward a window behind him, looking completely at peace in her dad’s arms. What fans cannot hear, according to Eugenie, is Jack sweetly asking his daughter whether she likes having her head massaged the way he is doing it.
That one detail has done all the heavy lifting. Royal parents rarely share moments this intimate, and the image of a devoted dad checking in with his two-month-old over a head massage is the kind of thing that reminds people why Eugenie has quietly become one of the most relatable royals of her generation.
She set the whole thing to The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun,” which, let us be honest, was the perfect soundtrack choice for a post about marriage, a new baby, and eight years of choosing each other.
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Adelaide Elizabeth Annina Brooksbank arrived on August 3 in Lisbon, Portugal, making her the couple’s first daughter. She joined older brothers August, five, and Ernest, three, turning Eugenie and Jack into a family of five.
Eugenie announced her third pregnancy back in May with a sweet photo of her sons holding an ultrasound scan, and later introduced her daughter’s full name on Instagram. The princess explained that Adelaide’s name honours three people she and Jack admire, past and present, including Adelaide’s great-grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
The name also carries a connection to both English and Portuguese history, a nod to the two countries the family calls home. The couple divides their time between Portugal and the UK since Jack began working in Portugal in 2022, so baby Adelaide’s Lisbon birth was a natural fit for their international life.
A love story that started on a ski slope
Eight years of marriage is a genuine milestone, and Eugenie and Jack’s story has the kind of rom-com beginning people rarely believe actually happens to royalty.
The pair first met during a skiing trip to Verbier, Switzerland, in 2010. Their first date followed a few weeks later at Osteria Basilico in London’s Notting Hill, and the rest, as they say, is history. Jack proposed during a holiday in Nicaragua, and they announced their engagement in January 2018.
They tied the knot on October 12, 2018, at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip among the guests. It was a full royal wedding spectacle, complete with a carriage ride through Windsor that drew enormous crowds.
Last year, Eugenie marked their seventh anniversary with another previously unseen photo, this one of the couple kissing during the post-wedding celebrations, with the princess wearing a custom light pink jacket. This year’s anniversary post, featuring their baby daughter, might just top it.
Eight years, three kids, and one very loved-up royal couple
What makes this anniversary post land so well is how much life has changed since that Windsor wedding day. Eight years ago, Eugenie was a bride in a carriage. Today, she is a mother of three, splitting her life between two countries, publicly thanking her husband for being the best dad to their children.
It is the kind of genuine, low-key romance that has defined Eugenie’s public image for years. No drama, no controversy, just a princess who met a man on a ski trip, fell in love, and is now raising three kids while keeping her family life as normal as royalty allows.
And if that unseen video is anything to go by, “best Dada there is to our 3” might be the most accurate caption Eugenie has ever written.
Here is to eight years, and to many more head massages for baby Adelaide.
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