Meghan Markle is all set to take a new surname after their official leaving from the royal tag. She took on the surname Sussex when she married Prince Harry in May 2018. She will take the new one after agreeing with the Royal Family as they both will no longer use their royal titles from now on.
However, the Duchess of Sussex has been known by her maiden name now. On the other hand, Meghan can adopt the same surname the Queen and Prince Philip picked in 1952.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry both decided to give their son Archie Harrison the Mountbatten-Windsor surname to give a tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Sussex can decide to match her son and be known as Meghan Mountbatten-Windsor as well.
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Notably, before becoming the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry used to be known as Harry Wales after he and his brother Prince William chose to use their father’s name. However, this is not new for the Royal Family as they were forced to renounce their Saxe-Coburg style in the middle of World War and one because of the war with Germany.
On the other hand, King George V chose to use the name Windsor, after one of the family’s favourite residences become Berkshire. However, the surname Mountbatten was used when Prince Philip married then-Princess Elizabeth in 1947 and became a naturalised British citizen. The two royal titles were mixed after a fight on the right to give Philip surname between the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen over.
After that, her Majesty declared in 1952 that the surname would be Windsor and not Mountbatten. The decision didn’t go well with the Duke of Edinburgh who reportedly shouted “I’m just a bloody amoeba,” citing that he was the only man in the country not to have the right to give his children his name.
The former Prime Minister’s journal reads: “The Queen only wishes (properly enough) to do something to please her husband – with whom she is desperately in love. What upsets me is the prince’s almost brutal attitude to the Queen over all this.”
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