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You know what they say about tempting fate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Last week Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex posted an Instagram video of her whirligig talkfest trip to Washington where she swapped pushing her jammy, cashmere-cottage-core persona to tout her entrepreneurial \u201clearns\u201d, and included a fleeting shot that showed she has what appears to be a monogrammed \u2018DS\u2019 tote bag.<\/p>\n
She should use it every day, all day, while she still can.<\/p>\n
According to a new report, that tote could end up woefully redundant with the 44-year-old reduced to being plain old Mrs Meghan Mountbatten-Windsor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin weeks\u201d of King William\u2019s reign he will strike the match on a \u201cbonfire of royal titles\u201d, according to the incredibly well-sourced and well-connected Tom Sykes, the Daily Beast\u2019s European editor-at-large and author of The Royalist<\/a><\/i> substack.<\/a><\/p>\n In what would be the biggest palace shakeup in more than a century, William will reportedly strip the titles of Meghan, Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, their kids Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, and the most odious berk to ever cross the threshold of Annabel\u2019s, Prince Andrew. <\/p>\n The custom stationers of London are going to be in clover with all the new orders. <\/p>\n The last 48-hours have been dominated by one story and one only in royal land, in the shape of morally repugnant plonker Andrew. <\/p>\n At 7pm on Friday night, London time, the man who has been described as \u2018disgraced\u2019 more than any other Brit since Lord Haw Haw, announced he would be giving up some of his titles. <\/p>\n Don\u2019t, for a second, buy the spin that this is anything but a bit of jazz-hands royal window dressing. <\/p>\n He legally remains The Duke of York, is still a Prince of the realm, and all that has actually changed is he should theoretically order some new letterhead.<\/p>\n This did not have to be the case and King Charles, should he have had the pluck and energy to do so, could have taken far more decisive action. All he needed was a pen. <\/p>\n See, who gets to be a prince or princess is set down in the 1917 Letters Patent (i.e. official decree) issued by George V. Back then, as World War One rolled bloodily on, there were an unfortunate number of Krautish royal cousins who were fighting for the Kaiser. <\/p>\n George decided they needed to lose their British titles and while he was at it changed the royal family\u2019s surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the far more patriotic-sounding Windsor. <\/p>\n Under those Letters Patent, which were updated by Queen Elizabeth in 2012 before the birth of Princess Charlotte, the children of the monarch are automatically prince\/princess and can style themselves as His\/Her Royal Highness.<\/p>\n This extends down a generation to apply to any children of the monarch\u2019s sons (but not daughters) and the children of the Prince of Wales\u2019s eldest son.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why when the Sussexes\u2019 children were born during Queen Elizabeth\u2019s reign they were simply Archie and Lili but – when the grandpa they have rarely if ever seen except on the back of a stray pound coin found rolling around behind a couch cushion became King in 2022 they, overnight, became prince and princess. <\/p>\n Well at least they are for now. <\/p>\n The question of who gets what title roared back to the fore last week as the Andrew dumpster fire grew and grew, a conflagration that is doing more damage to the royal family than Catholicism, the Luftwaffe, gout, and gin have ever done.<\/p>\n Should Charles have wanted, he could have had his undersecretary\u2019s aide-de-camp\u2019s assistant retrieve one of his famous leaky fountain pens and issued new Letters Patent that removed Andrew\u2019s princely title.<\/p>\n Similarly, only parliament can actually legally remove his Duke of York title, however, His Majesty could have back-channeled his desire for Westminster to act and they would surely have rubber stamp this and signed in triplicate faster than you can spell \u2018quango\u2019 such is vehemence of cross-party, nation-wide antipathy and disgust towards Andrew.<\/p>\n Disappointingly, and to the serious detriment of his legacy, Charles has not done this.<\/p>\n However his son won\u2019t be making the same mistake and when he becomes King William V, things will reportedly change as fast as a modern sovereign with his own Macbook Air can bang out new Letters Patent. <\/p>\n The Beast and The Royalist\u2019s Sykes has now reported that anyone who, as of today, has a bright, shiny princely title but doesn\u2019t officially represent the Crown – the Sussexes, their kids and Beatrice and Eugenie – will lose them \u201cin the early weeks\u201d of William\u2019s reign, based on information the royal\u2019s friends and allies.<\/p>\n As part of these \u201csweeping reforms\u201d, Sykes writes in the Beast, the Sussexes will also have \u201ctheir dukedoms and HRHs formally revoked\u201d. This will leave them legally as Mr and Mrs Harry Mountbatten-Windsor. Nothing more. <\/p>\n A friend of William\u2019s has told Sykes of this across-the-board title action: \u201cIt should have been done by Charles this week, but William knows he doesn\u2019t have the strength because of his illness. William is understanding of his father\u2019s situation. William won\u2019t be afraid to take the next step.\u201d<\/p>\n Before anyone accuses the current Prince of Wales of carrying out some sort of vinegar-tipped revenge campaign, pruning the titles of lesser branches is what Euro royal houses have been doing for years now.<\/p>\n In 2019, Sweden\u2019s King Carl Gustaf removed five of his grandchildren, the children of his younger children Princess Madeleine and son Prince Carl Philip, from the royal house.<\/p>\n In 2022, Denmark\u2019s Queen Margrethe stripped her younger son, Prince Joachim\u2019s, children of their princely titles, reducing them to only being counts and countesses. Joachim, the spare to now King Frederik, had a right conniption over the downgrade. <\/p>\n A friend of William\u2019s told Sykes: \u201cWilliam thinks about Queen Margrethe of Denmark a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n (So should Harry from the sounds of it.)<\/p>\n This image of William as an iron-backed, new broom monarch is also being reported by the Sunday Times<\/i>\u2019 royal editor Roya Nikkhah who has said the new King will be \u201cruthless\u201d. <\/p>\n While the 43-year-old was \u201cconsulted\u201d about the Andrew situation last week, \u201cit is understood that he is not satisfied with the outcome and knows the \u2018Andrew problem\u2019 will be in his in-tray at some point.<\/p>\n \u201cThere will need to be big institutional changes to future-proof the monarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n Appearing on Times<\/i> Radio, she also said \u201cThere may be some further levers that William can pull in the future, and will.\u201d<\/p>\n (Nikkhah has also reported that William will ban Andrew from State occasions including coronation.)<\/p>\n This all has a long way to run yet and an experienced royal courtier told her, \u201cWe\u2019re definitely in uncharted territory for royal scandals\u201d. <\/p>\n It also must be flagged here that in a world where the Sussexes lose their titles, his hardline approach will extend to his own three kids. <\/p>\n Sykes reports that the Wales children \u201cmay have their titles informally \u2018parked\u2019 until they become adults and can decide for themselves if they want to be full-time working royals or lead lives as private citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n The three \u201care never addressed as \u2018prince\u2019 or \u2018princess\u2019 by their parents, teachers, staff, or family.\u201d<\/p>\n Of them, only Prince George as heir is predestined to have to take up full-time royal duties, with the possibility of younger siblings Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis being allowed to go off and do their own, normie, civilian thing and to never have to wield a tree-planting shovel or ribbon-cutting scissors should they not want to. <\/p>\n Back in 2020, weeks after Megxit, the Duke of Sussex appeared at one of his final official royal engagements where the host told the crowd, \u201che\u2019s made it clear that we are all just to call him \u2018Harry\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n Well, he could be about to get his wish – and Meghan could need a new monogrammed tote bag.<\/p>\n Daniela Elser is a writer, editor and commentator with more than 15 years\u2019 experience working with a number of Australia\u2019s leading media titles. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.news.com.au \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You know what they say about tempting fate. 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