Wales Online :
Palace aides are reportedly calling on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to give up their royal titles after Prince Harry’s recent podcast interview.
Harry revealed that he wanted to leave the royal family in his 20s and said “look what it did to my mum” in a new interview, the first since his sit down with Oprah. In an hour and half chat on podcast The Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Prince Harry made many revelations about his family, including how he felt in his 20s as well as inheriting his parents’ pain. He also suggested Charles’ parenting left him with “genetic pain and suffering”.
It has been reported that Prince Charles is determined to
find a way for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan to get back into the royal fold. But The Mail on Sunday reported that there is a growing sense of “bewilderment and betrayal” within the royal family.
The paper says they are particularly upset over what they described as Harry’s “shocking” criticism of Prince Charles’s parenting skills and, by implication, those of the Queen and the late Prince Philip.
The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry walk in the procession at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, during the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh. Picture date: Saturday April 17, 2021.
One aide reportedly said: “People are appalled that he could do this to the Queen when the Duke of Edinburgh is barely in his grave. To drag his grandfather into this is so shocking and disrespectful.
“The Duke of Sussex has now spent a significant amount of time emphasising that he’s no different to anyone else and attacking the institution which he says has caused him so much pain. There is a growing feeling that if you dislike the institution that much, you shouldn’t have the titles.”
Another source told the Mail on Sunday: “They should put the titles into abeyance, so they still exist, but are not used, like they agreed to do with their HRHs. They should just become Harry and Meghan. And if they refuse to do that, they have to explain why not.”
There are no formal moves planned to strip the couple of their titles.
