Prince Harry continues to be a prince and a duke, however he’ll now not be referred to as His Royal Highness.
In the present day, the royal household up to date its official web site to replicate a few of the royals’ present titles, and amongst different issues, eliminated references to Harry’s “His Royal Highness” title.
The web site nonetheless makes some references to Queen Elizabeth II being the present monarch, and at instances calls now-King Charles III “the Prince of Wales” and Queen Camilla “the Duchess of Cornwall,” however per the palace, updates are being made periodically.
Buckingham Palace mentioned in an announcement reported by Specific: “The Royal Household web site accommodates over 5 thousand pages of details about the life and work of the Royal Household. Following the demise of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, content material has been revisited and up to date periodically. Some content material could also be old-fashioned till this course of is full.”
Whereas Harry has not publicly commented on his title change, it doesn’t come as an enormous shock, since after he and spouse Meghan Markle stepped again as senior royals in January 2020, Buckingham Palace introduced, “The Sussexes won’t use their HRH titles as they’re now not working members of the Royal Household.”
Harry—son of King Charles and the late Princess Diana—was born a prince and named the Duke of Sussex by grandmother Queen Elizabeth upon his marriage to Meghan in 2018. Meghan was then named the Duchess of Sussex.
Upon Queen Elizabeth’s demise on September 8, 2022, Harry and Meghan’s kids, Archie and Lilibet, earned their default titles of prince and princess. On the time, the royal web site up to date the children’ titles to replicate the change.
The Sussexes now stay in Montecito, California, and stay non-working royals. As a substitute, they’ve launched varied media initiatives—together with a guide, a podcast, a partnership with Netflix, and varied charitable endeavors—by their firm, Archewell.
Rosa Sanchez is the senior information editor at Harper’s Bazaar, engaged on information because it pertains to leisure, vogue, and tradition. Beforehand, she was a information editor at ABC Information and, previous to that, a managing editor of movie star information at American Media. She has additionally written options for Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Forbes, and The Hollywood Reporter, amongst different retailers.
