ALBAWABA - Prince William plans to dethrone Prince Harry and Meghan Markle when he becomes king.
Is a Royal divorce looming? Prince William hires Princess Diana’s divorce lawyers in bold moveMeghan posted a message from Ukraine's first deputy prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, on her Instagram Story last month: “Your Royal Highness, I would like to express my sincere thanks for everything your family is doing for Ukraine.” Harry had just visited the country unexpectedly. Meghan's HRH title and a video shared by IT Cosmetics founder Jamie Kern Lima, whose podcast Meghan appeared on this week, showing a gift basket from Meghan with a card reading “With the Compliments of HRH The Duchess of Sussex,” went viral.
Why does Meghan still use HRH five years after she and Harry resumed royal duties in January 2020? The internet pondered.
Meghan, who stated in her Netflix series With Love that her preferred surname is Sussex, a title given to her and Harry by Queen Elizabeth on the occasion of their 2018 royal wedding, is still the Duchess of Sussex and an HRH, though she and Harry agreed not to use those titles for commercial gain.
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In 2020, Buckingham Palace stated that Harry, Meghan, and Queen Elizabeth agreed that “the Sussexes will not use their HRH titles as they are no longer working members of the Royal Family.” Does Meghan's HRH card violate this? No, Meghan sent the request privately and isn't benefitting. However, a former courtier told The Daily Beast that the HRH title will enrage William, the future king. According to a friend of William, "There is no way King William will stand for this" when he becomes king. As king, he will eliminate the titles. He will find ways.
The Cut reports that “the laws around removing a royal title are not well-defined, and while some people think the monarch should be able to strip someone of their title, none of them have ever done that.” Princess Diana, William and Harry's mother, lost her HRH when she and Prince Charles divorced in 1996. Parliament introduced a law in 2022 to allow the king to abolish titles, “but it hasn’t gone anywhere,” The Cut reported.
Britain's Prince Harry (R) and Prince Harry's brother Prince William (Photo by Jonathan Brady / POOL / AFP)
People explained that “the British monarch’s power on the matter is limited” when abolishing titles. Removal would require parliamentary action, but the Removal of Titles Bill could change that. According to The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, a professional association for barristers in England and Wales, the HRH honorific would be the easiest for a British sovereign to remove. Master Graham Zellick, a professor of public law and tribunal judge, wrote that “removal of the honorific on the basis of giving up the role of a working member of the royal family and living abroad could hardly be faulted.”
The HRH honorific is easier to remove than the Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles, while Prince Harry's princely title is his birthright, and “this title is conferred by letters patent and is not usually subject to removal,” People stated.
According to The Mirror, constitutional expert Craig Prescott said Meghan can use her HRH title, but it is ambiguous.
Britain's Prince Harry (L), Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan Markle (C) (Photo by ANDRES CASTILLA / AFP)
"When they retired from royal duties, one of the agreements was that they would not use HRH titles, but they kept them," he stated" The palace may have wanted to keep the door open, as stripping them of their HRH titles is complicated. They decided to take a year off before conducting the review. They still have HRH titles, but they agreed not to use them in an official capacity; thus, business actions don't have royal clearance.
“In that sense, this was a personal message, and so she could—and I don't think there is anything legally to prevent her from using this in a personal capacity,” Prescott said. “What's unusual about this story is that it's come out in the open—and it blurs the line between personal and private. However, the scandal stems from her public appearance with a friend. You would think that discretion, the greatest part of valor, would not be used in a public way.”
