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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have not trademarked the names of Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, despite the rumours now doing the rounds online.<\/p>\n
Because it is Harry<\/a> and Meghan<\/a>, the chatter has spread fast. Anything involving the Sussexes, their children, and their public brand tends to spark a wave of speculation within minutes, especially when royal titles are involved.<\/p>\n So, when fresh claims began circulating that the couple had quietly moved to secure Archie and Lilibet\u2019s names, plenty of people assumed it was probably true.<\/p>\n After all, from the outside, it would not have looked especially surprising. The pair has spent years under intense public scrutiny, and any move involving their family name is almost guaranteed to make headlines.<\/p>\n Be that as it may, there is one key reason those reports have taken off, and it has much more to do with product wording than any secret legal filing.<\/p>\n The Sussex children\u2019s royal titles helped fuel confusion over the trademark rumours (Instagram\/meghan)<\/cite><\/div>\n According to People<\/a>, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex haven\u2019t trademarked either child\u2019s name because, essentially, they never tried to.<\/p>\n The confusion appears to have started after Meghan\u2019s lifestyle brand, \u2018As ever\u2019, launched a Mother\u2019s Day collection that included tributes to both children. Two candles, Signature Candle No. 506 and Signature Candle No. 604, were linked to Archie and Lilibet\u2019s birthdays, May 6 and June 4.<\/p>\n Consequently, that alone was enough to get people talking, but the bigger issue seems to have been how the products were described.<\/p>\n Earlier press materials and product descriptions reportedly referred to \u2018Prince Archie of Sussex\u2019s birthdate\u2019 and \u2018Princess Lilibet of Sussex\u2019s birthdate\u2019, which only added fuel to the speculation. However, when the collection went live on the \u2018As ever\u2019 website on 22 April, those royal<\/a> titles were no longer used in the live product descriptions.<\/p>\n Instead, the candles were described as being inspired by \u2018her son Archie\u2019s birthdate of May 6\u2019 and created \u2018to honor her daughter Lilibet\u2019s birthdate of June 4\u2019.<\/p>\n The reason this detail is so crucial is that Archie and Lilibet\u2019s titles have always had a slightly different path to other royal children. Unlike their cousins Princess George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, for example, Archie and Lilibet did not have their royal titles announced at birth.<\/p>\n They were born as \u2018Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019 and \u2018Miss Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019 while Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> was still reigning.<\/p>\n