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this is the benefit of blue. finally tonight, a big day for baby archie and a private look inside the royal family s joyful day. here s abc s jennifer eccleston. reporter: harry and meghan taking a cue from their little niece. blocking the press from baby archie s christening today at windsor castle. releasing two images to their nearly 9 million instagram followers, but keeping the details including the names of the royal godparents private. christenings are traditionally
identities. another contender, lindsay roth who sat next to meghan at wimbledon. amal and george clooney, former favorites, in the running. harry s lifelong friends mark dyer and jack warren. i ve covered five or six christenings during my royal career and never come across such secrecy. reporter: just one of the many breaks with tradition chosen by this modern couple determined to protect their child from the public. the christenings of archie s cows ips and other royals were celebrated occasions. some wished harry and meghan would share more. why keep it so private, you know? reporter: leave them be, say others. it s entirely up to them. it s a personal thing, isn t it, a christening? reporter: harry and meghan under pressure, yet today remains a private and joyous occasion. and there is a lot of criticism. maybe a little bit confusing over there. let me try and break it down for you. the british media say they should be given more information, of course. this is now a ve
something that s wrong. reporter: so if you go back in tradition, things were always private. it was the cambridges that changed that, inviting cameras in to capture the arrivals for the christenings of their children. it s clear the sussexs want to do things differently and a clear message that they ll bring up archie as a private citizen. john? i don t accept that. i don t accept that conclusion, max. i m sorry. these folks they play a public role. in is their baby s christening it makes sense to keep no, he s everybody s baby. he s the british baby, the royal family baby, and i want to see that baby. mostly i want to see it oh, you will. just not in realtime. you sure? we haven t seen him yet. they ll have photos. if you say so. in non-monarchy news, cnn has a exclusive interview with joe biden. new day continues right now. there should be health care
dates back to 1841 for the christening of princess victo a victoria, queen victoria s oldest daughter. it s been used for something like 60-odd christenings since then. this actual robe prince george was wearing is a replica made by angela kelly, the queen s dresser. the queen wanted this robe to be kept for posterity. it s actually a replica. the cake was the top tier of the wedding cake for william and kate. obviously, that s a tradition that was used in other families, not just royal families. well, it s lovely to see that they are trying to give little prince george a normal life. godparents, again, seven for this young prince, which is absolutely fantastic. there we can see some of the names of those that have been assigned godparent duty. robert, thanks so much. and thank you for your time. that s going to wrap things up for me. see you back here tomorrow at