Meghan Markle: This is why Archie is not a prince. The truth
The allegations of racism against the Royal Family are unfounded. Here is the truth
In the interview granted a few days ago, Oprah Winfrey, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry did not spare each other at all. The couple's accusations against the British monarchy are many, often accompanied by a more or less subtle insinuation of the institution's racism towards them and, above all, towards the former American actress (an accusation that William has already denied).
Why isn't little Archie a prince?
Hearing from the mouth of the Duchess, however, that the reason why little Archie did not receive a title at birth would be linked to racism surprised everyone. Words that cannot be misunderstood. The former American actress, in fact, did not mince words when she said that "at the Palace there were those who wondered with concern how dark the child's skin would be" but also that the Royal Family "changed the internal rules so that the child did not become a prince ».
Meghan Markle then added to the dose: "The most important title I will have is mom, but the idea that our son is not safe and also the idea that the first black member in this family does not have the same title. of the other grandchildren ... "alluding to the fact that the child is not entitled to an escort.
It is a little surprising that Meghan Markle indulged in this type of confession, considering that the opposite is easily demonstrated. There is no racist reason, in fact, in the choice not to give Archie the title of prince and the treatment of Royal Highness. It is not about the color of the skin, it is not about the origins of Meghan. It is simply the will of the Crown to respect the provisions of an ancient royal decree.
Did Archie have the right to be a prince? Here is the truth
It was 1917 when King George V established that the title of prince (or princess) and the treatment of Royal Highness automatically belonged only to the sons of the sovereign (today Carlo, Anna, Andrea and Edoardo), to the nephews in the male line and to only one great-grandchild , the eldest son of the Prince of Wales's eldest son (i.e. George of Cambridge, William's eldest son, himself Charles's eldest son). On the basis of these "patent letters", therefore, Archie was not entitled, at birth, to the title of prince or that of Royal Highness. As, on the other hand, he will not be due to his little sister on arrival that of princess.
Why did Charlotte and Louis get the title instead?
To respect the decree of George V, the title of prince and princess would not have belonged even to Charlotte and Louis of Cambridge, since neither of them is the eldest son of the eldest son (William) of the Prince of Wales (Charles). In their case, however, an exception was made. In 2011, Queen Elizabeth decided to change the law of succession. If until then, to become heir to the throne, he had always been the first son of the sovereign (or future such) and not necessarily the firstborn, from that moment on sex would no longer be the discriminating factor. If William and Kate had had a daughter as their first daughter, in essence, she would have become the queen.
With this assumption - for example if she had been born before Charlotte - respecting the decree of George V there would have been a future non-princess queen and a second son - we hypothesize George - with the title of prince. The Queen, in short, in doubt was forced to give the title and treatment of Royal Highness to all the Cambridge children precisely to prevent one of William's youngest children from having a higher title than a possible first-born female destined to rise. on the throne.
In the case of Archie, of course, the problem has not arisen, except that when Charles becomes king, the son of Meghan and Harry will become the grandson - and no longer the great grandson - of the sovereign and therefore will automatically obtain the title of prince and will have the treatment of Royal Highness, as well as the sister. To question Meghan's good faith there is also what Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand wrote in Freedom, the biography dedicated to the Sussexes, to whose drafting, it is said, the Sussexes have contributed a lot. Inside it is explained how Meghan and Harry did not want a title for the prince to guarantee him a more "normal" life.
