Royal Family News: Why Princess Eugenie’s Child Will Not Get A Royal Title

British royal family news shows that the United Kingdom’s assignment of royal titles is a sometimes inscrutable process. Even though Prince Harry, Duke of Susex has a title he and Meghan Markle opted not to give their son, Archie, one and they also skipped the “His Royal Highness” designation.

Instead, Archie is officially known as the Earl of Dumbarton, but his parents want him to have as normal a life as possible, Vanity Fair explains.

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Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, also announced that neither of their children would take official titles upon their birth. The Countess told the Sunday Times, “We try to bring them up with the understanding they are very likely to have to work for a living. Hence we made the decision not to use HRH titles. They have them and can decide to use them from 18, but I think it’s highly unlikely.”

People noted in September that Princess Eugenie announced that she was expecting her first child with her husband, Jack Brooksbank, due in early 2021.

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According to Cafe Mom both Eugenie and her sister, Beatrice have honorary titles as princesses. But their children will not have titles, owing to their gender.

Titles are passed down due to parents’ position within the royal family. Honorary titles are not passed down and marriage to spouses without titles complicates things. Constitutional expert Iain MacMarthanne told Express that, “Precedents set in recent decades with royal princesses marrying men without titles has consolidated the practice of children of these marriages being considered private individuals without title, despite their royal antecedents.”

Royal Family News – Princess Eugenie’s Child Will Not Be Given A Royal Title

Females lack the ability to pass on titles, he notes, thus making the possibility of Eugenie’s child having a title even more unlikely.

Eugenie is one of the most active family members on social media and she has a job at an art gallery, plus according to People, she’s a patron of the Teenage Cancer Trust charity, alongside her mother and sister. Thus Eugenie has a full and exciting life so the lack of a title for her baby will likely not ruffle her feathers.

She and her husband made the headlines recently by relocating to Harry’s Frogmore Cottage and then just as quickly moving back out, leaving some to wonder what that was all about.

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