Meghan and Harry: why little Lilibet is not a princess?
Meghan and Harry's newborn Lilibet does not yet have the right to be a princess, just like her brother Archie does not have the right to be a prince.
But the two children could one day become a princess and a prince when Charles becomes king and they become the grandchildren of a monarch.
For now, however, Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor, eighth in line of succession to the throne, and his two-year-old brother Archie, seventh in line of succession, do not have official royal titles.
Deprived of royal titles because of mixed race?
Meghan had suggested incorrectly, as Mirror recalls that her son Archie was deprived of his title of prince "by birth" because he is of mixed race. But the rule that currently prevents calling Archie and Lili prince and princess was established over 100 years ago by George V.
We read in this famous rule: "The grandchildren of the sons of such a sovereign in a direct male line (with the exception of the eldest living son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales) shall have and enjoy at all times the style and the title enjoyed by the children of the dukes of our kingdoms ".
Only Prince George - as the great-grandson of the monarch in direct line of succession to the throne - was initially entitled to be a prince.
