Despite their step back in January 2020 as working members of the royal family, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have retained their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles, bestowed upon them by Her late Majesty on their wedding day, May 19, 2018. (Though their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, did not use formal titles until March of this year, their parents referred to their titles as their “birthright,” and the royal family then updated their names on its website from Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor and Miss Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor to Prince Archie of Sussex and Princess Lilibet of Sussex.)
When Harry’s father, King Charles, is crowned at the Coronation on May 6, does anything change as far as Harry and Meghan’s titles? Royal expert Christopher Andersen, author of The King: The Life of Charles III, tells Marie Claire exclusively that nothing will change in this regard: “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will retain their titles, as will Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet,” he says. “Even though the King did not officially bestow these titles on Archie and Lili, as grandchildren of the monarch, they are automatically entitled to them. The children don’t have royal HRH [His or Her Royal Highness] status yet, however, and, given the strained relationship between the Sussexes and the rest of the royals, there doesn’t seem to be much of an appetite for giving it to them.”
