Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Kids Archie and Lilibet Will Have New Titles on Royal Family Website
08.03.2023 - 20:03
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An official upgrade. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s children, Archie and Lilibet, will have their titles altered on the royal family’s website, Us Weekly can confirm.
Archie, 3, and Lilibet, 21 months, will now be called Prince Archie Harrison and Princess Lilibet Diana on the official webpage of the royals. The little ones are currently referred to as Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor and Miss Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor.
The Duke of Sussex, 38, and the Duchess of Sussex, 41, first used their daughter’s new title on Wednesday, March 8, when announcing that the toddler was christened earlier this month. “I can confirm that Princess Lilibet Diana was christened on Friday, March 3 by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, the Rev John Taylor,” a rep for the couple told CNN.
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While Harry and Meghan gave up their official positions (and the styling of His/Her Royal Highness) when they stepped down as senior royals in 2020, their children became eligible for prince and princess titles when Harry’s father, King Charles III, assumed the throne in September 2022.
King George V — the grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II — decreed in 1917 that royal titles should be given to any children of the monarch’s sons. The late queen, however, amended the decree in 2012 to include the children of her grandson Prince William. This is why his and Princess Kate‘s children — Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7, and Prince Louis, 4 — all have royal titles.
The amendment did not include Harry’s children because it only applied to the future king’s children. Since Charles, 74, assumed the throne last year, William, 40, is now first in line for the monarchy.
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