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sussex-newswire · 4 months ago

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"It’s not surprising that Meghan and Harry, 40, use the last name Sussex.

"As royals with titles do not usually have last names, they typically use their title as their family name. For example, when Harry and Prince William were growing up, they used the surname Wales because their parents were the Prince and Princess of Wales.

"When Harry and Meghan inherited the Sussex dukedom upon their marriage in 2018, their family name became Sussex.

"Speaking to People in an interview published on Monday, March 3, Meghan said the Sussex name is part of her 'love story' with Harry.

"'It’s our shared name as a family, and I guess I hadn’t recognized how meaningful that would be to me until we had children,' she told the outlet. 'I love that that is something that Archie, Lili, H and I all have together. It means a lot to me.'

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"Meghan and Harry have never used the last name Mountbatten-Windsor. On Archie’s birth certificate, Meghan’s legal name was listed as Rachel Meghan Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex.

"Harry’s was listed as His Royal Highness Henry Charles Albert David Duke of Sussex."

#meghan hasn't been a markle since her marriage #but the mountbatten-windsor name was specifically created for members of the family without titles #so it isn't harry's last name and it isn't meghan's married name #I see so many people being very confidently wrong about this #Harry doesn't have a last name. he really truly just doesn't. this was very difficult for me to understand at first but it's true.#so Meghan's married name - legally and yes to this day - is Her Royal Highness Princess Henry The Duchess of Sussex #The courtiers even took the names “Rachel Meghan” off Archie's birth certificate remember?#and the tabloids said the name change was a snub to Princess Catherine somehow and definitely also proved Meghan was a grasping narcissist #when she had nothing to do with it. just another cynical little twist for the smear campaign #anyway the palace pushed for Archie and Lili to be Mountbatten-Windsors when they were born because there was a scheme to change the rules #in order to deny the kids the titles that they were in line to inherit when Charles took the throne.#Harry and Meghan successfully thwarted this plot by going public about it. so the kids did get their titles when Elizabeth died.#which means none of them have last names now! So yes the title becomes their shared family nomenclature.#anyway kudos to Us Weekly for a valiant attempt to explain this to baffled Americans #but I think they should have put in the whole palace-intrigue of it too because that's really the most interesting part

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