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Unlike some other relatives, this alliterate former actress turned A+ list celebrity wants a certain designation for her offspring and won’t settle for anything else.

Meghan Markle

Why Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Kids Won’t Be Princes or Princesses

Any daughters won’t become duchesses either.

Sounds the alert: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal baby is practically due any day now. The only hitch: The couple’s future child won’t necessarily become a prince or princess. The royal family has a lot of rules about titles, and Queen Elizabeth II is known to issue some decrees of her own when it comes to royal babies. Here’s what you need to know about this newest addition’s official name.

The couple officially got their titles His and Her Royal Highness The Duke and Duchess of Sussex when they married last year on May 19, 2018. The Queen traditionally hands out new titles on wedding days — like Prince William and Kate Middleton becoming the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — and this one came as no surprise.

Without the monarch’s intervention, Meghan would have simply become Her Royal Highness, Princess Henry of Wales — not Harry, mind you, but the feminized styling of her husband’s official name. Becoming a duchess served as a prestigious bonus, even if she’s not “Princess Meghan” per se. (Princesses only descend from royal blood, which is why it’s not “Princess Kate” or technically even “Princess Diana.”)

Even with their fancy-sounding addresses, the couple’s potential children won’t get the same treatment according to law and custom right now. If Harry and Meghan decided on the name Alice for a girl, for example, she would officially go by Lady Alice Mountbatten-Windsor. Mountbatten-Windsor is the official last name of the royal family, as fans of The Crown will remember.

A son gets a slightly fancier-sounding title: Earl of Dumbarton, his father’s secondary title used in Scotland, peerage expert William Bortrick told PEOPLE. Eventually he would inherit “Duke of Sussex” from Prince Harry, but per the rules right, now a daughter would not.

The reason behind the surprising stylings stems from the Letters Patent issued by King George V in 1917. The decree essentially limited royal titles amongst the monarch’s great-grandchildren except for the person most directly line to the throne (a.k.a. Prince George), but it’s not set in stone.

How the Title and Name Could Change

Queen Elizabeth II has changed the titles of her youngest descendents before. She stepped in before Princess Charlotte was born to give her, Prince Louis, and any future siblings the same stylings afforded to Prince George. She could very well do the same again to honor her beloved grandson and his wife.

Members of the royal family have also turned down royal titles before. For example, Prince Edward, the Queen’s son, and Sophie Rhys-Jones decided with the monarch in 1999 that their kids Lady Louise and James, Viscount Severn would not be called a princess or prince even though they were entitled to it.

The couple attributed this to a “clear personal wish … appropriate to the likely future circumstances of their children.” With Prince Harry now sixth in line to the throne after the birth of Prince Louis, he and Meghan may also like the idea of a more subdued role for their children. – Source

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