Meghan Markle Is 'Preparing To Sue' Prince William..?

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https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meghan-markle-preparing-sue-prince-william-over-king-charless-title-cuts-report-1756764

Allegedly.. Meghan Markle Is 'Preparing To Sue' Prince William.. Meghan Markle's legal battle: Prince William title cuts threaten Sussex business empire

This extraordinary move, according to well-placed royal sources, stems from a palpable and growing fear that Prince William, once he ascends to the throne as King, may move to strip the former actress of her title, Duchess of Sussex.

This possibility has become terrifyingly real for the Californian-based royal following the recent, highly publicised, and definitive actions taken by King Charles III against his own brother, Prince Andrew. The King formally and unambiguously stripped Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of all his remaining royal titles, styles, and honours in October 2025, an unprecedented move designed to 'slim down' the monarchy.
This decisive act, reportedly urged on by William and Catherine, the Princess of Wales, has served as a stark and worrying pre-cursor for Meghan.

She is not prepared to wait for a fate similar to her disgraced uncle-in-law.
'Meghan's not taking any chances and she's willing to fight to keep her title,

Omg…

I don’t think she will be very successful. It’s not her title it’s Harry’s title. She only has it because of him. If the Duke of Sussex title is taken from Harry then she is no longer the Duchess of Sussex.

I doubt a lot that William will do that or that Meghan would sue. It would be dumb on both sides.

Also, if someone was to sue would be Harry no? It's him with the birthright not his wife. So it's Harry the interested one and who knows the inside politics better.

Oh, I hope so.

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It’s hardly a reputable source and it’s hard to see what justification Harry or Meghan have for keeping the Sussex dukedom. They are believed to have spent six hours in Sussex, and now live in another country where the US Constitution doesn’t allow titles, so it’s hard to say they have strong claim given they are also not working royals.

As for suing Prince William, it’s the reigning monarch who issues Letters Patent (which have typically been written by the government) and they are approved by the Lord Chancellor.

You cannot sue someone for something you are worried they might do in the future.

I can see the angle she’s reportedly going for .. and obviously lawyers would smell blood.. 💵… I can well imagine she’s consulting legal so is ‘ready’ for when William goes for it..

‘Stripping her of this name would inflict irreparable damage on her global branding, the very foundation of deals like her lucrative partnership with Netflix, the success of the Archetypes podcast, and the launch of her new brand, which has, for now, been referred to as 'AS EVER'. The name 'Duchess of Sussex' is intrinsically tied to her commercial value and her ability to launch successful global ventures.
This is the key legal angle her team is reportedly exploring. The legal strategy is said to revolve around defending a commercial enterprise that is inherently tied to her name, a name gifted to her by the late Queen Elizabeth II upon her marriage to Prince Harry in 2018.’

Meghan has no title of her own so she can't sue.

Only time she'd have a Sussex title in her own right would be if she was divorced "Meghan, Duchess of Sussex" or widowed (Dowager Duchess of Sussex).

Another nonsense article.

This is drivel. For a start, Andrew wasn’t stripped of his title in an effort to “slim down” the monarchy; he was stripped of his title because he turned out to be a rapist of trafficked women. They can’t possibly be seen to put Harry in the same category by stripping him of his titles.

The name was not gifted to her though. Harry was made Duke of Sussex the morning of their wedding and upon married, Meghan took the title of Duchess. She already uses the style of a divorcee, rather than the correct style, and has no independent claim to the title anyway.

Daft story

The King formally and unambiguously stripped Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of all his remaining royal titles, styles, and honours in October 2025, an unprecedented move designed to 'slim down' the monarchy.

No, he removed the titles far later than he should have done due to huge public pressure after Andrew's involvement with Epstein and his unpardonable behaviour possibly criminal actions involving young vulnerable women became too big a story to ignore. Nothing to do with slimming down the monarchy.

Harry and Meghan are safe for now and they know it.

The very distant future is another matter.

Sounds like fake news

There is no legal strategy. There cannot be a legal strategy for something that has not happened, English law simply doesn't work like that. This is just click bait . . .

No one in the US gives a damn about titles. if Harry becomes a US citizen, he will have to give up the title.

I wouldn’t put anything past a person trying to keep hold of their privilege. Without it she’s back to her old name - which is no brand. 🤷‍♀️

Lets see.. you read it there first!

This could compete strongly for Most Boring Post Of The Day

True. And therefore he’ll never do that. He’d have to give up everything at home.

Aw and yet here you are 😆

Byeeeee

Also, any HRH is owned by the crown, so the crown owns the copyright or royalties.

Not so sure about Dukedoms are they owned by the family currently holding them, or are they an honey title owned by the crown but which they give some families a right to use for a time?

Some people will believe any old shite.🙄

The dukedom only belongs to the Crown whilst effectively extinct and available to be bestowed upon another.

They (she) wanted out of the RF, made spiteful allegations when his grandfather was dying and his grandmother was increasingly frail.
Harry is trying to worm his way back in with Charles now he has run out of money making schemes. I think Charles would be open to reconciliation but William is having none of it. As soon as he claims the crown i reckon H&M will be toast 😆

Yes, I am definitely going to believe something reported in IB Times 🙄

She can just continue to use it anyway, the same way we all still called Princess Diana, well, Princess Diana. What are they going to do?

That racist document (and that other racist white settler document the "declaration" of theft of another peoples land) declared blacks 3/5ths human, and contained the fugitive slave clause where tyrants from the planter class, jefferson washington et al. could legally recover their escaped slaves. The topic of this thread, had she been around during slavery and fled from her "master" that would have been an illegal act as slaves were constitutionally theirs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Act_of_1793

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was an Act of the United States Congress to give effect to the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3), which was later superseded by the Thirteenth Amendment, and to also give effect to the Extradition Clause (Article 4, Section 2, Clause 2). The Constitution's Fugitive Slave Clause guaranteed a right for a slaveholder to recover an escaped slave. The subsequent Act, "An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters", created the legal mechanism by which that could be accomplished.