Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been making quite a few rounds in the news recently. While Prince Harry stepped down as a patron of the charity Sentebale, which he co-founded with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho in 2006, Meghan released her own Netflix show titled, ‘With Love, Meghan’ where she shared her cooking, garden and entertaining tips.
However, according to a report by the New York Post, palace insiders revealed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex can be stripped of their HRH titles once Prince William becomes king.
Prince of Wales, Prince William and Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry have been involved in a bitter feud ever since the latter decided to quit the royal life and move to the US with his wife in 2020. When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle decided to step down as senior working members of the Firm they lost hands from taxpayer-funded security and the access to the Frogmore Cottage. However, they were never formally stripped of their titles of “His and Her Royal Highness”
But now it seems Prince William is looking to turn the tables once he assumes the post, according to what a source told the Daily Beast. “It’s no secret William wants Harry more harshly dealt with. He thinks he has betrayed the family from top to bottom, which is the ultimate Windsor crime. It wouldn’t take much to provoke him to flex his muscles when he is king,” said the palace insider to the outlet.
Do Prince Harry and Meghan Markle use the HRH titles?
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After stepping down from the firm, the royal couple agreed to no longer use their HRH titles. Though from time to time they have used the titles on and off. Recently, Meghan Markle reposted a message on social media where the vice president of Ukraine addressed her as “Your Royal Highness” Additionally, a source also shared that Markle was “using her HRH on a website which seems to exist to sell jam.”
“It’s a step in the wrong direction, basically, away from the agreement. You’d have to be an idiot to believe that she didn’t know exactly what she was doing when she posted that message, unedited, to her Stories” added a source.
“Charles isn’t going to open a new front in the civil war on the basis of one Instagram post, and it’s not as if they are calling themselves HRH,” added another source. “I think everyone is pretty clear, at this stage, what the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s position in the family is.”
“Charles has a softly-softly attitude to Harry and Meghan, and so that’s the policy for now, but the gloves will be off when [William] inherits the throne. If they started using the HRH titles on a regular basis, he would take them away for good,” the source said.
It seems what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are doing with their HRH titles is enjoying the calm before the storm because as soon as Prince William takes the throne, things are bound to change and definitely not for the better.
