Prince Harry and his wife Meghan announced on Wednesday that their daughter had been christened in a private ceremony in California. publicly calling her princess and revealing for the first time that they will use royal titles for your children.
Princess Lilibet Diana, who will turn two in June, was christened on Friday by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, the Reverend John Taylor, Harry and Meghan said in a statement. Lilibet’s title and that of her brother Archie, who will turn four in May, will be updated later. on the Buckingham Palace website.
With advertising, children’s titles are used in public for the first time.
The issue of children’s titles came into the spotlight two years ago during Harry and Meghan’s television interview with Oprah Winfrey. Meghan, who is biracial, said that when she was pregnant with Archie, “they” – presumably the palace – “They said they didn’t want me to be a prince… which would be different from the protocol.”
Meghan suggested this was because Archie was the “first black member” of the royal family and it would have been the first time that a royal nephew was not given the same title as other nephews.
At the time, royal experts said Meghan’s remarks appeared to be based on a misunderstanding of how royal titles are bestowed.
The titles are awarded in accordance with a decree issued by King George V in 1917 which limits the titles of prince and princess to the male-line grandchildren of the ruler
While the late Queen Elizabeth II was living, Harry and his older brother Prince William were grandsons of the sovereign. Harry and William’s children, as great-grandchildren, they did not receive titles automatically.
But Isabel had the power to change the rules and in 2012 stipulated that the children of Prince William and his wife Kate would be princes and princesses. That decree did not apply to Harry and Meghan.
However, that changed when King Carlos III assumed the throne upon his mother’s death last September. William and Harry are children of the king, meaning their children are now royal grandchildren and therefore entitled to be known as prince and princess.
However, on the Buckingham Palace website they are still “masters” (sir) and “miss” (miss) to dry for six months.
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Source: Clarin
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