Socially conscious brand behind Archies hat thank Harry & Meghan from the bottom of their hearts after crazy orders

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THE NEW Zealand company behind Archies adorable beanie hat have thanked Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from the bottom of their hearts after receiving a deluge or online orders.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex shared a new photo of their seven-month-old on Instagram on New Years Eve where he can be seen wearing the bobble hat made by Make Give Live.

Archie was seen wearing a hat by the New Zealand brand Make Give Live in a sweet New Year’s Eve post

The socially conscious company, who donate a hat for everyone they sell, has since received “crazy orders”

  • Cocobear hat in “Mist” 34, Make Give Live – pre-order here

For every hat they sell, the socially conscious company will donate another to someone in need in New Zealand and say that the Archie effect has helped immensely.

Taking to their Instagram account founders Claire Conza and Becky Smith shared a video thanking the royal couple for raising awareness of their company.

Claire says: We never could have expected what happened since what we called the Archie effect a couple of days ago.

It has catapulted us on to the world stage, we are blown away, surprised, delighted slightly overwhelmed!

Founders Claire Conza and Becky Smith took to Instagram to thank Meghan and Harry from the “bottom of their hearts”

The women says the Sussexes are helping to spread their message of “inclusion and kindness”

But really so excited about what this will enable us to do.

Becky then adds: Its going to make such a difference to us, the impact we can make and the areas that we work in, enable to do more for our community and our makes through the therapy of social connection.

We can give away more hats to keep heads and hearts warm in the winter and we can spread our message of inclusion and kindness around the world which is what we are really all about.

Claire continues: We know that Meghan and Harry share these values too and we are so grateful that they shared that beautiful photo and of course the story behind it of our organisation and our purpose.

The women then revealed that they have had to pause orders on the $47 (24) Cocobear beanie which is now only available to pre-order.

The women have had to pause orders of the Cocobear hat since they shared their original Instagram post

Claire says: The orders have been crazy flowing in so we have had to pull back, but we will reopen them as soon as we have a handle on that.

Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts it just means the world to us.

The company also shared the original photo of Archie a few days earlier which helped to kick off the hats popularity.

The caption read: We are so happy to see that the gorgeous little Make Give Live hat that Archie got before he was born has kept his head warm this year.

Beautiful NZ Merino in the cutest ever style, even better is that his beanie has ensured that the head of someone in real need in NZ was kept warm too. Go Archie!

In other royal news, the Queen beams alongside cheeky George, Charles and William as they share a new photo to mark the start of the decade.

Meghan Markle included a sweet photo with Kate as one of her 2019 highlights.

And Meghan and Prince Harry rung in the New Year by hitting 10m Instagram followers – but Kate Middleton and Prince William are still ahead.