Prince Harry Responds to Question About Why He and Meghan Markle Haven’t Renounced Their Titles After Step Back
09.01.2023 - 06:59
/ usmagazine.com
Still holding on? Prince Harry had a quick retort when asked about why he and Meghan Markle have yet to renounce their royal titles.
“And what difference would that make?” Harry, 38, told Anderson Cooper on the Sunday, January, 8, episode of 60 Minutes, when asked about giving up the couple’s Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles in the wake of their royal step back.
The prince walked away from his senior royal duties in early 2020 alongside his wife, 41, before moving to California later that year. While the couple no longer use their official Duke and Duchess of Sussex social media pages, royal observers have criticized the pair for continuing to use the titles when they no longer have royal responsibilities.
Similarly, others have questioned why the twosome have publicly spoke out against The Firm and Harry’s family instead of working things out privately.
“Every single time I’ve tried to do it privately there would be briefings and leakings and plantings of stories against me and my wife,” the Archewell cofounder claimed on Sunday. “The family motto is, ‘Never complain, never complain.’ But it’s just a motto.”
Harry — who shares son Archie, 3, and daughter Lili, 19 months, with the Suits alum — noted that he would never leak a story about his family. However, he claimed that some members of the royal family don’t have the same values.
“So now [I’m] trying to speak a language that perhaps they understand,” the Invictus Games founder told Cooper, 55. “I will sit here and speak truth to you with the words that come out of my mouth rather than using someone else, an unnamed source, to feed in lies or narrative to a tabloid.”
Harry further explained that after broadcaster Jeremy Clarkson published a column in The Sun about his