There's new drama with—sigh, you guessed it—the royal family. This time, because apparently Meghan Markle and Prince Harry want their kids to have the option to become working royals.
According to the Daily Beast, drama kicked off due to The Guardian reporting that "Prince Harry wants to keep the HRH titles for his children so that when they grow older they can decide for themselves whether they want to become working royals, or stay out of public life."
This reporting was then covered in the Daily Mail, at which point—per the Daily Beast—it "flew around royal friends’ WhatsApp groups" where reactions were "dismissive and flabbergasted."
A friend of Prince William's spoke to the outlet and claimed that "William obviously isn’t going to hire Archie and Lilibet. This is just trolling on the part of Harry and Meghan. It’s actually hilarious that no one even noticed it for ten days, until the Mail did it. The idea that somehow having a vestigial HRH as a baby later entitles you to be a working royal is beyond parody, even for them. Harry and Meghan were asked by the queen 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."
Meanwhile, a second friend added that "They have asked the Sussexes politely 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. It will likely be presented as part of a wider tidying up exercise to reduce, more broadly, the number of HRHs in circulation. He could, for example, say that only working royals are entitled to use HRH, which seems sensible if you are trying to modernize, or specify that only children of the monarch are HRH, not the grandchildren, which would have the added advantage of making things clearer for their own kids’ families in due course."
Oh, and a former courtier notes that "Charles may not want this fight, but William despises Harry and Meghan at this stage, and when he is king his fury will rain down on them."
Mmmkay!
