It was one of the big excitement topics when Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan said goodbye as reigning royals. At the time, Meghan Markle claimed in the piquant TV interview with American talk show host Ophrah Winfrey that her son Archie was denied the prince title because of his skin color and his mother's ethnic origin. However, the death of the Queen changes the line of succession and suddenly Archie and Lilibet are prince and princess.

Archie and Lilibet are now: Prince Archie Mountbatten-Windsor and Princess Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor, even though Meghan once said that she did not see any importance in such official, big titles. Nevertheless, Meghan admitted in the interview at the time that she felt "pain" when she learned that her son Archie "was the first black member of the royal family not to receive a royal prince title at birth". The background to this is the distance to the succession to the throne. The British royal family has been striving to downsize in recent years.

However, in 1917, King George V established a rule that direct descendants of the sovereign could also bear a "His/Her Royal Highness" title. With the death of the Queen, Prince Charles is now King. His son Prince Harry also moves up one place in the line of succession, followed by his children, who are now the grandchildren of the reigning king. They don't have to use the title HRH, but legally Archie and Lilibet are now entitled to it thanks to the new order.

The children of Prince William and Duchess Kate will also receive new titles as a result of the new succession to the throne. The Cambridge family was given the suffix "Cornwall" with the death of the Queen. The family is now called "of Cornwall and Cambridge". Since the children of Prince William and Duchess Kate are already descendants of an heir to the throne, they held the title of prince and princess by birth.

Those: Daily Mail