The children of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are now entitled to royal titles, following the death of the Queen.
Buckingham Palace confirmed on Thursday (September 8) that Queen Elizabeth had died at the age of 96. A statement released yesterday read: " The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow."
Having ascended to the throne in 1952 at the age of 25, the Queen was Britain’s head of state for 70 years. Her eldest son Charles has now become King at the age of 73. He immediately assumed the throne, while his wife Camilla became Queen consort.
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Charles' ascension to the throne has altered the line of succession, while it also means that the Sussex children are now entitled to HRH titles, reports the Mirror. Meghan and Harry's children are now technically Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor.
The change comes under rules set out by King George V in 1917. As the children of a son of a sovereign – grandchildren of the newly named King Charles III – they also now have an HRH style title if they wish to use it.
A spokesperson for Debrett’s previously told the Mirror : “In 1917, King George V ordered that only the grandchildren of the monarch would be entitled to use the style of prince or princess and HRH. The only exception to this order was that the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales would also be entitled to use the style HRH and Prince."
This means that only Prince George, as a great-grandson of the monarch down the direct line of succession to the throne, was originally entitled to be a prince. The Queen stepped in ahead of George's birth to issue a Letters Patent to ensure all of William and Kate's children would have fitting titles.
However, this did not extend to Archie and his younger sister Lilibet. This has changed with Charles now King, as they are now the grandchildren of the monarch and can be styled HRH and prince or princess.
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