Meghan Markle, Prince Harry issued dire warning regarding royal titles

A friend of Prince William has issued a dire warning to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry as the royal couple continued to use HRH titles.

Speaking to the Daily Beast, the friend of the Prince of Wales says the duke and duchess were asked by Queen Elizabeth to stop using their HRHs, and agreed. “Obviously, any reasonable person would understand that would mean your kids don’t use them either.”

“The simple fact is that Meghan has gone back on the deal by using her HRH. It’s a straightforward betrayal of the deal, and if she now intends to start parading the kids as HRHs to aggrandize herself, it just adds to the case to remove them, legally, altogether.”

Another friend of the family also warned that they believed the HRHs would ultimately be officially removed.

The second friend said: “An HRH is a funny thing. It’s often referred to as a title, but it’s actually technically a ‘style,’ i.e., a way of addressing someone. It’s a courtesy. It denotes no official role and it bestows no formal rank in the British system, in the way being a duke or duchess does.

“An HRH is bestowed by letters patent—which is basically a fancy way of saying it is a legally binding royal decree—and by precedent an HRH can be taken away by royal decree also."

The friend went on saying the royal family had asked Meghan and Harry to stop using the style, to no avail, “so I imagine William will simply issue new letters patent to formally remove the entire family’s right to use HRH when he becomes king.”

Prince William could, for example, say that only working royals are entitled to use HRH, which seems sensible if you are trying to modernize.