Meghan Markle Teaching Princess Lilibet Mahjong at 5
Princess Lilibet Diana is learning to play mahjong at the age of five, taught by her mother Meghan Markle. The detail emerged in family photographs shared on Instagram to mark Prince Harry's 42nd birthday, as reported by Hello Magazine.
One image shows Princess Lilibet wearing a jewelled headband decorated with mahjong tiles. The tiles are bright, patterned and instantly recognisable, even sewn in jewels for a child. The headband is playful and the lesson behind it is real.
Mahjong is a tile-based game in which four players take turns to build matching sets. It rewards memory and pattern-spotting. Learning the suits and spotting the pairs takes time, even for adults new to the table.
The birthday post put Harry at the centre. Meghan shared a run of relaxed family photographs for the occasion. The shot of Lilibet in her headband was among them.
The game is a running theme for Meghan. In the 2025 Netflix series With Love, Meghan, she said she and her friends had recently learned to play and called themselves the Maj Squad. The nickname stuck, and the theme has reappeared at family celebrations since.
She chose a mahjong-themed cake for her 45th birthday in August. Her friend Tracy Robbins shared a montage of photos from that celebration on her Instagram Stories, according to People. The cake carried the same tile motif now seen on Lilibet's headband.
Lilibet turned five in June, when Meghan shared new photographs of her daughter on Instagram to celebrate, as reported by Town & Country. Lilibet was born in the United States in 2021, as People has previously reported. The June post added to a small album of birthday moments shared directly on Instagram.
Her older brother has also popped up around his mother's screen work. Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet were seen watching their mother at work in a photo linked to With Love, Meghan, according to E! News, with the children watching closely as she worked on set.
What makes this stand out is how domestic it feels. A game picked up with friends has become a birthday cake, a dress-up headband and now an early lesson for a five-year-old. For fans, this means a rare glimpse of playtime at home, scaled down to five-year-old size.
