“This decision was not ours,” she said in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey in March 2021. Meghan Markle then claimed that her son Archie would be deprived of a title of nobility.
This choice would have been made by other members of the royal family according to her, whose identity has remained secret.
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The death of Elizabeth II, which occurred on Thursday, September 8, however, changed the situation.
The 3-year-old boy is therefore, according to an edict from King George V, dated 1917, automatically become a prince.
Just like her sister Lilibet, 1 year old, princess.
The decree indeed stipulates that the grandchildren of the monarch inherit this title, as the first claimant to the throne inherits that of Prince of Wales.
However, Archie and Lilibet are both the grandchildren of Charles III, who became king of England after the disappearance of his mother.
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Only downside, the website of the royal family has still not been updated with the potential titles of the two children.
The king's spokesman said on Saturday, September 10, that the page would be modified "when the palace teams have new information".
In other words, when the sovereign has validated the status of Archie and Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor.
Still, the latter could well refuse to grant them these distinctions.
The departure of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to the United States, who left their royal duties in January 2020, could thus dissuade him.
The royal correspondents have also repeatedly mentioned the wish of Charles III: that of seeing the number of active members of royalty "reduced" - understand, reduced to the strict minimum.
Translate: only Charles, Camilla, William, Kate and their three children will be active members.
All this, unofficially, in order to give less grain to grind to the tabloids of all stripes.
Princes Andrew – dismissed from his royal duties – and Harry could therefore be the first to bear the brunt.
The new sovereign, whose coronation date has not yet been set, is also said to plan to reduce the number of official engagements that the Windsors will hold in the future.
