'Unkind' explanation for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle not losing royal titles
It has long been suggested that Prince Harry and Meghan should be stripped of their titles since they quit their royal duties and uprooted for a new life in California.
The couple sensationally quit as working royals three years ago and then went on to make a series of claims about their royal relatives in a bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey, in their Netflix series and in Harry's controversial memoir Spare.
In the fallout from these accusations, the Royal Family are said to have discussed stripping their titles "at the highest level", potentially reducing them to simply Mr and Mrs Mountbatten-Windsor. However, despite these talks, royal expert Ingrid Seward believes that they will remain the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
The Editor in Chief of Majesty Magazine told The Royal Beat: "I don’t think anything will happen to the titles because, if they lose their titles, Harry is still a prince of the blood and Meghan instead of being the Duchess of Sussex, [would] be Princess Henry... That really would [confuse the Americans]. I think [it’s] probably best just to leave it because it looks unkind, it looks unnecessary.
Royal expert Ingrid Seward believes that they will remain the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Getty Images)"The Queen gave them the titles, let them keep them - they’re going to be ‘H and M’ anyway. I think the best thing is to leave them, ignore them, and let them get on with it - which is really what the Palace and the Royal Family are doing.”
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Paul Burrell, a former royal butler to the late Queen and Princess Diana, has also cast doubt on the possibility of the King taking titles away. Paul, who was also criticised by Harry in Spare, previously said: "It's the King's decision, he does not want to light a fire underneath Harry and Meghan.
"He doesn't want to light the blue touch paper and watch the fireworks go off. The King is very careful, he has been very careful by handling Meghan and Harry the way he has. He sent them the invitations, he's kept the moral high ground and he's doing the right thing.
"I don't think he will take away their titles, I think other people want him to but other people didn't want him to invite them to the Coronation. The King will do it his way, he has a very straight way of dealing with things and he knows his own mind.
"He's not being swayed or told by anybody what to do, it's his way. Charles has always been like that, he's always had his way and been very focused so no he won't take the titles. He could have, or the late Queen could've changed the rules so that Meghan and Harry's children weren't princes and princesses, but they didn’t.
Meghan pictured at the Ripple of Hope Awards- (Janet Mayer / SplashNews.com)
Harry and Meghan attending the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awards (Getty Images Ms. Foundation for)"They didn’t mess with it because that would have been incendiary. That would’ve lit a blue touch paper too. The King’s matches are safely away in his pocket, he’s not using them to light any fires."
Had she not been given the Sussex title, Meghan would have been Princess Henry - the same applies to Kate Middleton who technically isn’t Princess Kate, Newsweek reports. So despite being a princess, she will never technically be known as Princess Meghan - as this is reserved for those born into the Royal Family.
Meghan has previously listed her occupation as “Princess of the United Kingdom” on a document for Sussex Royal, her now defunct UK nonprofit. It is as yet unknown whether Archie and Lilibet, children of Harry and Meghan, will be afforded prince and princess titles.
Under the George V Convention, all grandchildren of the monarch should receive the title, meaning after the Queen’s death Archie and Lilibet would become prince and princess. But so far only the children of William and Kate have been given the titles of all of the Queen’s great-grandchildren.
Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis were named as such at birth, because Prince William is the future king. This was decided after an announcement from the Queen that “all the children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales should have and enjoy the style, title and attribute of Royal Highness with the titular dignity of Prince or Princess”.
As a result, while Prince George’s children might be princes and princesses - as he is the eldest child - the same might not be the case for Charlotte and Louis.
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