A royal expert is speaking out this week to warn that the royal family is risking a new “firestorm” as Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s newborn daughter Lilibet “Lili” Diana is still being “ignored” from the official list of Windsors.

Despite the fact that Lili was born over a month ago, she is reportedly still not included on the official royal website with the rest of the Windsors.

“The Lili omission has the potential to set off a fresh Sussex-related firestorm,” royal expert Daniela Elser told The Express. “It simply beggars belief that this website situation has been allowed to happen given that 2021 is in strong contention to be the Queen’s Annus Horribilis 2.0 for a variety of Harry and Meghan-shaped reasons.”

Elser then questioned whether not including Lilibet on the line of succession was an “IT oversight of the decade or calculated snub.”

“Perhaps the bigger question is, does it matter?” she questioned. “The fact that the Palace has failed to include Lili so far and for weeks on end after her birth carries with it quite the sting.”

Elser alleged that the list was updated much faster for the likes of Prince George, Prince William and Kate Middleton’s oldest child, and for Lili’s older brother, Archie.

“But Lili is a whole other ball game and the climate right now is nothing short of combustible,” she added. “One spark, one instance of her being ostensibly cold-shouldered by the palace and the entire Sussex PR tinderbox could go up in flames again.”

“The palace’s seeming lack of urgency on the Lili/website front is breathtaking,” Elser said. “Or to put it another way, someone has got around to updating the royal.uk website to include all the handy details of this year’s Swan Upping (it starts on Monday!) but they have not got around to adding Lilibet to the line of succession. Talk about fiddling while Rome is threatening to burn.”

Meghan and Harry were ecstatic to announce Lilibet’s birth last month.

“She is more than we could have ever imagined, and we remain grateful for the love and prayers we’ve felt from across the globe,” the couple said in a statement posted to their website. “Thank you for your continued kindness and support during this very special time for our family.”

“Lili is named after her great-grandmother, Her Majesty The Queen, whose family nickname is Lilibet,” they said in their birth announcement. “Her middle name, Diana, was chosen to honor her beloved late grandmother, The Princess of Wales.”

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