Archie, the son of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, will he one day be a prince?
In the interview with Oprah Winfrey on March 7, Meghan Markle revealed that the royal family had refused the royal title to her son Archie. But Prince Harry's son could one day get it and be called "Prince Archie".
Born on May 6, 2019, Archie, son of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle did not obtain the title of prince. Archie Mountbatten-Windsor is recognized as a "Master", and not as a "prince", unlike the three children of Prince William.
While the press had revealed that Harry and Meghan did not want their son to have this title, Meghan Markle explained, in the interview with Oprah Winfrey, that it is actually a refusal of the family royal. "It was not for us to make this decision," said the Duchess of Sussex.
No explanation for the royal family's refusal
“Do you think this is due to his skin color?” Oprah Winfrey asked when Meghan Markle explained that the royal family did not want to give Archie the title of prince. “When I was pregnant, we had conversations about him having no security, no royal title,” she began.
The Duchess of Sussex went on to speak of the royal family's racism regarding her son: "There were also conversations and concerns about how dark his skin would be when he was born".
Facing the host, she felt that racism could be a "probable" cause in the refusal to give a royal title to Archie. Neither Meghan nor Harry, however, wanted to say which member of the royal family had made the comments. Oprah Winfrey confirmed the next day that it was neither Queen Elizabeth II nor Prince Philip.
Meghan Markle confessed that she would have liked her son to carry a title, "if that meant he would be protected." This title could have been granted to him by his great-grandmother, but it was not however a protocol obligation.
Archie could be a prince when Charles is king
The granting of royal titles is not unlimited. It concerns the children and grandchildren of the monarch, that is to say the direct line of succession. For the great-grandchildren, everything is framed by the protocol established by King George V in 1917, which grants the title of Royal Highness to the grandchildren of the monarch's sons, in the male line, evokes The Guardian.
Prince George, first child of Prince William and Kate Middleton thus obtained the title, being destined to be the future king of the United Kingdom, placing himself third in the order of succession to the throne.
Princess Charlotte was able to access this title thanks to a protocol reform established by the Queen in 2013, opening the title to girls. She is therefore Royal Highness and Princess.
Archie, he is neither the grandson of the sovereign - but her great-grandson - nor the son of a future monarch, since his father, Prince Harry, is only sixth in the order of succession to the throne. On the other hand, since he will be the king's grandson, when Prince Charles takes the throne, upon the death of Elizabeth II, he should obtain the title of prince at that time.
However, as protocols can be changed, nothing can assure Archie, who turns two in May, and his future little sister, of ever having a royal title.
