Why have Harry and Meghan chosen titles for their DC?

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I genuinely don't understand their reasoning behind them decision to make Archie and Lilibet Prince and Princess - they hate the monarchy, it drive Meghan to suicidal thoughts, in their doc they describe the commonwealth as Empire 2.0 etc etc.

Can someone please enlighten me?

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This has been debated endlessly already!

I imagine the answer is because they want to !

Makes them sound special. £££££

Sorry haven't seen any previous threads about this (although I'm sure there have been some) - I just can't fathom how anyone can reconcile this decision

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_royal_family/4761188-hrh-prince-archie-harrison-0f-sussex-and-hrh-princess-lilibet-diana-of-sussex

I think future proofing income streams.

(Tbh - I cant get over their decision to use the Queen’s nickname for their daughter (Lilibet) when they had probably caused a lot of personal upset in the grandparent/child relationship. Appreciate no one owns a name and all that but it is quite unique!)

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The answer is $$$ that’s all they care about fame and money. With out the titles they’re nothing in America. So two faced. If they hate the royal family so much they would cut ties and stop using the titles. If that was me and I went through all that supposed stuff due to being ‘royal’ my children wouldn’t not be using titles until they were old enough to understand and decide if they wanted too.

Bacause they are extreme narcissists obvs!

Kerching. Also Merching...rhymes nicely.

I seriously doubt any right thinking, proud to be American and republican, will be calling them prince and princess. It's just not the done thing there. These are American children and will be raised American for the rest of their lives.

To bestow titles on their children from a system they despise and criticise and called racist , is the height of hypocrisy. Two children, presumably partly descended on one side from African slaves and on the other from an imperialist institution, is mind boggling.

Because all little girls and boys want to be a prince or princess? , apart from me ..I wanted to be an eqyptologist or a fire engine!

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Gotta keep the money coming in, mansions don't buy themselves you know!

Because they like to pick and choose what bits of the Royal Family they apparently can't stand to be part of and what bits they rather like and makes them feel important.

The Oprah interview and the whinge fest book and interviews from Harry backfired on them spectacularly. The penny has obviously dropped that without the kudos of the Royal Family They are nothing.
Grasping at straws is my guess

Yawn.
As the grandchildren of the reigning monarch, they are automatically prince and princess.
But I suspect you already knew that and this is just yet another boring, goady thread to bring all the frothing Meghan haters out.
Jeez...have a day off.

Because they want to mess up their kids like Harry thinks he was? Hypocrisy and attention seeking.

@Creamcrackersandricecakes it's not goady - many grandchildren of reigning monarchs have actively chosen not to have titles. In context you would expect H&M to do the same so it's quite extraordinary they have chosen to use their children's titles. I thought they may have explained this or someone would have some reason that made sense other than hypocrisy but I can't find any.

There’s another post that was active less than a week before you started this. Seriously. Can’t you just leave the kids alone? The titles don’t belong to the parents to give or take.

No one is criticising the kids. It's nothing to do with them and as they grow up I'm sure being called prince and princess in America will be cringeworthy for them. Their parents are the guilty parties here and are setting them up for bullying. This level of pretentiousness in a fiercely republican country isn't understandable. Contrary to your post, their parents have bestowed these awful labels on them. Princess Anne chose not to and Harry and his wife could have done the same. They did it for their own ends with no thought for how it would affect their children in a practical sense.

Because they want to.

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are the only ones in the current crop who chose not to use the royal titles their DC are entitled to (and the now adult Lady Louise has not made a different decision). Plus Princess Anne and Mark Phillips declined a title for him, which meant there were none available for her DC.

Both Andrew and Harry however chose to use the titles for their DC (that bit nearer the line of succession when the DC were born, perhaps?). I think it's a curious choice for DC who are not resident in UK (or anywhere where the British monarch is HoS) but it's one the parents are fully entitled to make

They’re the children of a daughter, their titles were never automatic. Their father refused an earldom so they didn’t get titles.

The titles don’t belong to the parents to give or take

The use of the titles is however entirely a matter for the parents, as demonstrated by the Edinburghs

They haven't "chosen them" since the titles are the kids' to use as of right if that's what they want to do. What H&M have done is elect to use them now, rather than leaving it up to A&L when they're older as others have done

As for why, only they know that - but given their attitude to the institution it's hard to avoid thinking it's for the £££ and prominence