Meghan Markle shared a message on Instagram that noted herself and or Prince Harry with the title “Your Royal Highness”, despite the term being restricted after they quit as senior working royals in 2020.
Meghan and Harry never formally resigned their His and Her Royal Highness (HRH) titles but agreed to stop using them after they leave the Royal Family and the United Kingdom.
The Duchess of Sussex announced a letter from Ukraine’s vice president this weekend that began, “Your Royal Highness, I would like to express my sincere thanks for everything your family is doing for Ukraine.”
Since posting, this has started growing calls in the UK for the couple to be deprived of their titles, reports The Daily Beast. A friend of King Charles said: “It’s outrageous. Every time you think they can’t make it worse, they make it worse.
The source also commented that the King “doesn’t allow himself to get angry about things like this anymore”.
A friend of Prince William’s also shared The Daily Beast: “It’s actually quite a clever way of testing the water, because there is deniability there, she can say, ‘Well, I just wanted to publish this nice letter to raise awareness for Ukraine, and oops! they got my name wrong—but oh, actually, now I think of it, I never gave the title up anyway, and maybe I will start using it again.'”
They noted: “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.”
It read: “The Sussexes will not use their HRH titles as they are no longer working members of the Royal Family.”
