Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis… Why not Prince Archie? In her hour-and-a-half-hour interview broadcast in France on Monday evening, Meghan Markle lamented the treatment of her son by the British crown. Archie, although great-grandson of the queen and grandson of Prince Charles, the direct heir to the throne, does not have the title of “prince”, unlike his three cousins, children of Kate and William.
When he was born in May 2019, this had been interpreted as a will of his parents, eager to modernize the monarchy. Faced with Oprah Winfrey, the queen of American television, Meghan Markle put forward a completely different version.
The Duchess of Sussex explained that the British crown had denied Archie the title on the grounds that his parents had not wanted to know his gender until he was born: “In private, it was known that I was pregnant. We now know that it’s Archie and that he’s a boy, we didn’t know that back then […]. And that’s when they said they didn’t want him to be a prince or a princess, since we didn’t know what his gender was, which would be a breach of protocol, and he didn’t would receive no protection. ”
Meghan Markle explained that she was not attached to the “greatness” around the title, but felt it important if it meant that her son would receive police protection. The former actress also hinted that her son’s skin color played a role in the decision not to give him the title of prince.