Prince Harry’s 'Royal Highness' Title Has Been Removed From Official Website
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Prince Harry is still a prince and a duke, but he will no longer be known as His Royal Highness.
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Today, the royal family updated its official website to reflect some of the royals’ current titles, and among other things, removed references to Harry’s “His Royal Highness” title.
The website still makes some references to Queen Elizabeth II being the current monarch, and at times calls now-King Charles III “the Prince of Wales” and Queen Camilla “the Duchess of Cornwall,” but per the palace, updates are being made periodically.
Buckingham Palace said in a statement reported by Express: “The Royal Family website contains over five thousand pages of information about the life and work of the Royal Family. Following the death of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, content has been revisited and updated periodically. Some content may be out of date until this process is complete.”
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While Harry has not publicly commented on his title change, it does not come as a huge surprise, since after he and wife Meghan Markle stepped back as senior royals in January 2020, Buckingham Palace announced, “The Sussexes will not use their HRH titles as they are no longer working members of the Royal Family.”
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 death on September 8, 2022, Harry and Meghan’s children, Archie and Lilibet, earned their default titles of prince and princess. At the time, the royal website updated the kids’ titles to reflect the change.
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The Sussexes now live in Montecito, California, and remain non-working royals. Instead, they have launched various media projects—including a book, a podcast, a partnership with Netflix, and various charitable endeavours—through their company, Archewell.
This article originally appeared in Harper’s BAZAAR US.