Following the announcement of the christening of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s daughter in Los Angeles, the Crown has made subtle changes to its website this Thursday, March 9. “Master Archie” and “Miss Lilybeth” became “Prince” and “Princess”.
The news was presented indirectly and subtly. “I can confirm that Princess Lilibeth Diana was baptized on Friday, March 3 by the Most Reverend John Taylor, Archbishop of Los Angeles,” a spokesperson for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced on March 8. Indeed, in the press release, the title “princess” was slipped, neither seen nor known, in front of the name of the daughter of the exiled couple in the USA. On the official website of the British Crown, the change was made the next day, with the titles “Master” and “Miss” becoming “Prince” and “Princess”.
New title, new name
At the same time, the particle and the surname “Sussex” were added to their names. Before that they were Lilybeth and Archie Mountbatten-Windsor; The children are now named Prince Archie of Sussex and Princess Lilybeth of Sussex, aged 3 and 1 respectively. For now, according to BBC:Parents expect their son and daughter to use their royal titles exclusively for official occasions (ie not at school, for example).
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Change of mind
It seems that these royal titles were not always obvious to the Sussex children. In March 2021, during the couple’s shocking interview with host Oprah Winfrey, Meghan Markle, who was pregnant with Lilibeth at the time, said of her son Archie: “They said: (royal family, editor’s note) that they did not want him to be a prince (…), which was different from the protocol. Therefore, it would not be subject to special security measures. It was very difficult.” Will the monarchy reconsider its positions?
What does the law say?
A written rule more than a hundred years old did provide for the granting of these titles to the king’s grandsons. King George V, Elizabeth II’s great-grandfather, sealed with a 1917 act that grandchildren of the sitting monarch could use the honorific titles of prince and princess.
King Charles III, however, by patent (in other words, royal decree) could not grant them that privilege, especially since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, particularly when traveling to the United States, officially withdrew from anything. activity within the crown. However, the sixth (Archie) and seventh (Lillibeth) heirs to the throne will not be able to call themselves “Her Royal Highness”, a right they may have inherited from their father. But the latter, retiring from royal duties in 2020, stopped using it himself.
King Charles III and his son, however, agreed late last year that Archie and Lilibeth could use the titles of prince and princess. And this, before the publication of Harry’s memoirs, The alternativeworsen their relationship.
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Source: Le Figaro
