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Prince Harry has hinted that he and his wife, Meghan Markle, will never give up their royal titles, while cheekily asking “what difference would it make”.
When the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they would be stepping away from the monarchy and moving to the United States in early 2020, many people called for them to give up their royal titles.
Those cries have grown ever louder in the years since, during which Harry and Meghan have launched multiple attacks on the royal family, beginning with their incendiary interview with Oprah, and continuing with more television appearances, a Netflix documentary, and the Harry’s bomb drop. memoir, which he has been promoting in a series of on-air interviews.
More than two years later, a poll revealed in December that 98 percent of respondents still want the couple stripped of their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles, especially amid the couple’s Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, which premiered last month and included several explosive allegations about their time as royals.
But now the Prince, 38, has addressed the burning question surrounding his and his wife’s royal titles during a revealing new interview with 60 Minutes, suggesting the couple will never give up their Duke and Duchess status because he didn’t. I don’t think it would ‘make a difference’.
Prince Harry has hinted that he and his wife, Meghan Markle (seen in 2017) will never give up their royal titles.
The 38-year-old prince addressed the burning question surrounding his and his wife’s royal titles during a revealing new interview with 60 Minutes, which aired on Sunday.
Asked by presenter Anderson Cooper (left) why he and Meghan hadn’t given up their titles, Prince Harry (right) replied: “And what difference would that make?”
Asked by host Anderson Cooper why he and Meghan hadn’t given up their titles, Prince Harry replied: “And what difference would that make?”
Anderson then noted that “one of the criticisms” the couple have received is that they “want to get away from the institutional role” but still want to “be so public.”
“Every time I’ve tried to do it in private, there have been briefings, leaks and planting stories against me and my wife,” Prince Harry said.
‘You know, the family motto is never complain, never explain. But it’s just a motto. And it really doesn’t hold.
The couple first made the shock announcement that they would be stepping down from their royal duties on January 8, 2020.
At the time, they wrote in a joint statement that they had reached the decision after “many months of reflection and internal discussions.”
They said they wanted to “work towards becoming financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty the Queen”.
“We now plan to balance our time between the UK and North America, continuing to honor our duty to the Queen, the Commonwealth and our patronages,” the statement continued.
“This geographic balance will allow us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also giving our family the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charity.”
When the couple (seen in 2020) announced that they would be moving away from the monarchy and moving to the United States in early 2020, many people called for them to give up their royal titles.
A recent poll revealed in December that 98 percent of respondents still want the couple stripped of their titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
People want them to give up their titles amid the couple’s bombshell Netflix documentary Harry & Meghan, which premiered last month and included several explosive allegations.
At the time, Norman Baker, a former Liberal Democrat MP and Home Office minister in the coalition government, said they should give up their titles in a scathing interview, stating: “You can’t be one foot in, one foot out.” . ‘
“You are either a member of the royal family or you are not,” he told Express.
Just over a year later, in February 2021, Harry and Meghan announced they were stepping down as royals permanently and moving to California full-time, where they bought a $14 million mansion in Montecito.
Harry (seen in 2017) said in the document that he told his father, King Charles II, that he and Meghan were willing to give up their titles during discussions about their plan to move to the United States.
A month later, the couple sat down with Oprah for a two-hour conversation, during which they alleged that someone in the royal family raised concerns about their son, Archie’s skin color before his birth, and that Meghan had thoughts. suicidal. her while she was pregnant, but that Palacio told her that she couldn’t “get help” because “it wouldn’t be good for the institution.”
After the interview aired, the palace aides asked the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to renounce their titles once more.
“The Duke of Sussex has now spent a significant amount of time emphasizing that he is no different from others and attacking the institution that he says has caused him so much pain,” a senior courtier told The Mail on Sunday.
‘There is a growing feeling that if you dislike the institution so much, you shouldn’t have the degrees.
They should become Harry and Meghan. And if they refuse to do it, they have to explain why not.”
In their recent Netflix doc, the couple made more shocking statements, including that the couple were victims of ‘institutional gaslighting’ and that the royals would lie to protect their older brother, Prince William.
Anderson pointed out during 60 Minutes that “one of the criticisms” the couple has received is that they “want to get away from the institutional role” but still want to “be as public.”
“Every time I’ve tried to do it in private, there have been briefings, leaks and planting stories against me and my wife,” Harry said.
Harry also said in the series that he told his father, King Charles II, that he and Meghan were willing to give up their titles during discussions about their plan to move to the United States.
Following its premiere, a YouGov poll conducted for The Times revealed that 44 percent of respondents said Prince Harry and Meghan should lose their titles, while 32 percent thought they shouldn’t.
A separate poll by The Sun newspaper found that 93 percent of its readers said Harry and Meghan should be stripped of their titles, and just four percent thought they should keep them.
A third taken over by Mail+ resulted in 98 percent of 9,700 people saying they wanted the royal couple to lose their titles.
Royal expert and biographer Robert Jobson later said: “Harry claims in his Netflix docuseries that he offered to renounce his title of Duke of Sussex.”
‘Given his and his wife’s distaste for our constitutional monarchy, it is surely time the Crown accepted their offer. The title was bestowed in anticipation of service to the Crown and country.
It was also reported last month that members of parliament have been trying to pass a bill that would give the Privy Council the power to demote the status of Prince Harry and Meghan, with the Isle of Wight MP accusing the Sussexes of to “monetize misery” and use their titles to raise more than $121 million from corporate settlements.
To change the status of the royal couple, legislation would have to amend the Title Deprivation Act of 1917 which was used to strip honors such as peerages from enemies who supported German aggression in World War I.