{"id":150968,"date":"2025-06-02T02:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150968\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T02:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:20:18","slug":"prince-harry-anne-diamond-erupts-over-duke-of-sussexs-latest-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/150968\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry: Anne Diamond erupts over Duke of Sussex&#8217;s latest move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GB News\u2019s Anne Diamond has criticised Prince Harry\u2019s latest move, which she described as \u201clike declaring a divorce, only worse\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke of Sussex is thought to have consulted his uncle, Earl Charles Spencer, about the prospect of changing his surname to Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the People\u2019s Channel, Anne hit out at Charles\u2019s estranged youngest son who according to the Daily Mail, addressed the issue with Earl Spencer during a trip to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t think of a more hurtful insult that Harry could deliver to his father, can you?\u201d, she asked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"1e282\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"7f70d88330bc8032c78be65fdef16c55\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/anne-diamond-and-an-inset-image-of-prince-harry.png\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"Anne Diamond and an inset image of Prince Harry\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anne Diamond lashed out at the Duke of Sussex<\/p>\n<p> GB NEWS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say, \u2018I no longer want your name. I want my mother\u2019s name. It\u2019s like declaring a divorce, only worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said the extraordinary report underlines the \u2018toxicity\u2019 of the ongoing royal row.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LATEST DEVELOPMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wonder precisely what else the Sussexes could do\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw Harry recently on the BBC with all sorts of accusations, some of them rather fantastic.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"5475b\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"606fd2b4ad1ce3ebc45fb4864451da0c\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201920%201080'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/richard-fitzwilliams-speaks-on-gb-news.png\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" alt=\"Richard Fitzwilliams speaks on GB News\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Richard Fitzwilliams was shocked by the report<\/p>\n<p> GB NEWS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt in the Oprah interview, where Meghan floated the prospect of Archie not becoming a prince because of some kind of racism was utter nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moment they became grandchildren of the monarch, both of them had the option of taking the HRH.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem with the Sussexes is, clearly very little has been thought out. They are supposed to have advisers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harry changing his name would see his and Meghan Markle\u2019s children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, also change their names to Spencer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6981b\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"88f53eaf28f87ee4dbb1d444ca56ef12\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202040%201359'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/prince-harry.jpg\" width=\"2040\" height=\"1359\" alt=\"Prince Harry\"\/>Prince Harry is said to have floated the idea of changing his surname PA<\/p>\n<p>King Charles is known to view his Mountbatten-Windsor family name with pride and adoration like his father Prince Philip did.<\/p>\n<p>His youngest son wanting to rid himself of the name will likely come as a crushing blow to the King who is still battling cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Naming is clearly an issue the Sussexes concern themselves with and Meghan made this evident during an episode in her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, which was released earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a viral moment from episode two, Meghan corrected actress Mindy Kaling for calling her \u201cMeghan Markle\u201d, saying \u201cI\u2019m Sussex now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the significance of the name change, she said: \u201cYou have kids, and you go, \u2018no, I share my name with my children.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know how meaningful it would be to me but it just means so much to go &#8216;This is OUR family name. Our little family name,'&#8221; she insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Kaling appeared to take the correction in stride, nodding in agreement and responding: &#8220;Now I know, and I love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GB News\u2019s Anne Diamond has criticised Prince Harry\u2019s latest move, which she described as \u201clike declaring a divorce,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[12,447,5105,7710,519,448,512,978,6225],"class_list":{"0":"post-150968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-prince-harry","10":"tag-royal","11":"tag-royal-families","12":"tag-royal-family","13":"tag-royals","14":"tag-sgg","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-video-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114611383543024598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}