Just seen on the news that Harry and Meghan will not release any details of Archie’s godparents

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What does everyone think? The papers seem really annoyed by their decision to keep Archie’s godparents secret. I’m not sure what to think. I don’t think it would hurt to let the public know these details and to see the christening party arrive at church.

If they want to be private citizens, relinquish your royal titles.

Anyone who thinks the media interest in Prince Harry would vanish overnight if he dropped his titles obviously doesn’t remember the period between Princess Diana losing her HRH title and her death.

As brother and son to the next two Kings, he’ll always be of interest to them.

They didn’t relinquish a title. The baby is not entitled to a title, unless bestowed on him.

He's just plain old Archie.......

how do they even have 'old friends' they've only known each other ten minutes!

second point - it seems like it's the god parents who wish to remain private.

third - who cares? if we're to have a royal family then we need to accept we are given snippets that they want us to see/ hear and I personally am ok with that? Why would you not be?

Am in two minds ..they wanted the lovely public wedding and now they want to be secretive...royal christenings are private but why the secrecy about the godparents...think H and M want the best of both worlds and are playing mind games!!

I think by not giving him a title and doing things a little differently from what W&K done, they’re pretty clearly setting out their stall to make it clear the dc will be off limits.

Fair play to them, Harry has probably seen the impact a useless title has had on his York cousins, and the criticisms they’ve faced being in the public eye and decided to try and avoid it for his own kid.

They do need a new PR team though, who seem to keep cocking up with all the “oh and FYI we aren’t telling you about x y z.” ahead of time”. It’s easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission and all that.

second point - it seems like it's the god parents who wish to remain private

The MM-bashing vocal few here will ignore this again and again.

It's also hard to believe that it was, in fact, an idea instigated by the godparents

...or just decide that it's not true after all, because it MUST be down to MM. It just HAS to be.

Mad.

It's also hard to believe that it was, in fact, an idea instigated by the godparents

.or just decide that it's not true after all, because it MUST be down to MM. It just HAS to be.

Don't quote me to put words in my mouth. I actually would guess it is Harry who is pushing this secrecy drive.

Don't quote me to put words in my mouth. I actually would guess it is Harry who is pushing this secrecy drive

I deliberately referred to 'the vocal few' to avoid doing that very thing, while using your quote to highlight the paranoid batshittery that weaves through every single Meghan Markle thread.

while using your quote to highlight the paranoid batshittery that weaves through every single Meghan Markle thread.

How is it 'paranoid' to observe that godparents don't usually make acceptance of the role dependent on being incognito? In the organisation of a christening the parents ultimately call the shots.

I notice you deliberately didn't quote the paragraph where I said that it wasn't of earth-shattering importance anyway

I notice you deliberately didn't quote the paragraph where I said that it wasn't of earth-shattering importance anyway

Just about important enough to do a bit of light MM/PH bashing though.

Chucking in your two-penneth, then saying 'of course, it doesn't really matter' is a cop-out.

I'm sure they can handle a random civilian observing that it's an odd but not very important choice 😊

A grandparent being godparent isn’t remotely unusual in the royal family.

King George VI was one of Prince Charles’ godparents, As was his great grandmother Queen Mary. Princess Anne had both her grandmothers as godparents.

Princess Margaret and Earl Snowdon were also godparents to Charles/Anne so the ‘no siblings/close family’ thing is a choice William and Catherine made, not a family rule.

They didn’t relinquish a title. The baby is not entitled to a title, unless bestowed on him.

The gave up him being Lord Archie Windsor. He was entitled to that (similar to Charlotte and Louis would have been had the LP’s not been changed)

I don't see how it matters. The media will criticize them anyway and Meghan's crazy family will be using it as another opportunity to gain media attention. Will the baptismal cert be available afterwards like the birth cert was? They're doing what they feel is in their family's best interest and protecting their child. Harry spent his whole life in front of the world, he doesn't want that for his child.

Why would anyone, as in the people everywhere, wish to know the names of any godparents to anyone, let alone the royals.

I don't suppose anyone in real life, has kept track of the godparents of royal children, as it matters not to most people.

Serena Williams can’t be a godparent as she is a Jehovah’s Witness.

I don't blame them. The Megziteers will swoop to pick their decision to pieces. Why should they give anyone fodder, they're damned if they do speak and damned if they don't.

Time to stand down. They want privacy. don't want to give anything back. Have all the privacy you want, don't take another penny from the public purse. What a pair of piss takers.

I couldn't give a shiny shit who they are! If we stay in the EU we won't have the monarchy for long anyway.

Well they can do what they want obviously. But I guess if they don't what to keep getting loads of inevitable flack then I do wonder why they keep choosing these hills to die on. It would be no big deal to say who his godparents are and I think if you are one of the royal family then that kind of stuff, and upholding all the traditions etc is kind of part of the job description.
It makes not one jot of difference to the kids privacy if who it's godparent are is public knowledge.

They do seem to make a big deal over nothing at times.

Personally, I am more interested in seeing little Archie's photos than knowing the names of his godparents.