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Prince Harry\u2019s real name is not actually Harry<\/a> \u2013 but most people don\u2019t know. Even amongst royal enthusiasts, this is a fact about the prince that often goes under the radar. The Duke of Sussex\u2019s real name is Henry Charles Albert David.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Unlike most people, he doesn’t have a traditional surname either, having previously used \u201cWales\u201d as a boy. Fans also spotted Harry<\/a>‘s real name was listed on his son, Archie’s, birth certificate. “PRINCE HARRYS REAL NAME IS HENRY?? wtf,” one individual posted on X (formerly Twitter). Another agreed: “PRINCE HARRYS REAL NAME IS H E N R Y?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A third person added: “I just learned Prince Harry<\/a> (or anyone in the royal family) does not possess a last name, nor born with one. Wild,” while a fourth was equally surprised: “Prince Harry isn’t called Harry?!”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Even the Prince himself has joked about the confusion surrounding his name, reports Cambridgeshire Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n At the WellChild Awards in 2024, he said: “My name is Henry, but everyone calls me Harry. I have no idea.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n While \u201cHarry\u201d is commonly used as a standalone name today, it began as a nickname for \u201cHenry\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In Medieval England, \u201cHarry\u201d was the spoken form of the name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Telegraph previously reported that during his military service, Harry was known as Captain Harry Wales, a nod to his father, King Charles, who was the Prince of Wales at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He also adopted Mountbatten-Windsor as a surname, following Queen Elizabeth II’s decree that any Royal requiring a last name could use it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n His children, Archie and Lilibet, also bear the Mountbatten-Windsor surname, which is included on their birth certificates, along with their respective middle names, Harrison and Diana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Prince Harry is one of the most popular royals in the world, as well as one of the most well known.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n According to data collected by YouGov, he’s the eighth most famous royal in the UK following relatives including Prince William<\/a>, Princess Catherine, and King Charles, reports The List<\/a>.<\/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.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prince Harry\u2019s real name is not actually Harry \u2013 but most people don\u2019t know. Even amongst royal enthusiasts, this is a fact about the prince that often goes under the radar. The Duke of Sussex\u2019s real name is Henry Charles Albert David. Unlike most people, he doesn’t have a traditional surname either, having previously used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2367822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[403810,22730,376491,22769],"class_list":["post-2367821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-mountbatten-windsor","tag-prince-harry","tag-real-name","tag-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Royal-fans-are-only-just-discovering-Prince-Harrys-real-name.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367823,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367821\/revisions\/2367823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}