{"id":151960,"date":"2025-06-02T11:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151960\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:23:09","slug":"prince-harry-asked-princess-dianas-brother-whether-he-could-change-his-surname-from-mountbatten-windsor-to-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151960\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry \u2018asked Princess Diana\u2019s brother whether he could change his surname from Mountbatten-Windsor to Spencer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had the Duke gone ahead with his plan to take on the Spencer name, he would have lost Mountbatten-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/windsor\" isautogenerated=\"true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windsor<\/a>, the name currently used by the children he shares with Meghan Markle \u2013 Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. The name was created by Queen Elizabeth II, who on 8 February 1960 decreed that her descendants should bear a surname that references both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatler.com\/topic\/house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House<\/a> of Windsor and the name of her husband, Prince Philip, who replaced his \u2018Prince of Greece and Denmark\u2019 title with the surname \u2018Mountbatten\u2019 after he became a naturalised British citizen in 1947. Thus, \u2018Mountbatten-Windsor\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent episode of Meghan Markle\u2019s Netflix series, however, she claimed that the family was now going by the name of Sussex. During a conversation with Mindy Kaling on With Love, Meghan in March, the 43-year-old royal told her friend: \u2018It\u2019s so funny you keep saying \u201cMeghan Markle\u201d \u2013 you know I\u2019m Sussex now.\u2019 Explaining why the distinction was of such importance, Meghan added: \u2018I didn\u2019t know how meaningful it would be to me, but it just means so much to go \u201cThis is OUR family name. Our little family name.\u201d\u2019 If that \u2018little family name\u2019 had changed, Princess Lilibet\u2019s full name would have been Lilibet Diana Spencer, a direct tribute to the three-year-old\u2019s grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You know I\u2019m Sussex now&#8217;: Meghan Markle told Mindy Kaling how important the Sussex name was to her during an episode of With Love, Meghan<\/p>\n<p>JUSTIN COIT\/NETFLIX<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Prince Harry was willing to give up the Mountbatten-Windsor name, which is thought to be treasured by his father, King Charles, is a sign of just how toxic the relationship between the Duke of Sussex and his British family has become in recent years. But while it appears as though the Prince has never been more estranged from the House of Windsor, his relationship with his mother\u2019s family remains strong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Had the Duke gone ahead with his plan to take on the Spencer name, he would have lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[47893,12,447,1412,5105,7710,519,448,32406],"class_list":{"0":"post-151960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-earl-spencer","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-prince-harry","11":"tag-princess-diana","12":"tag-royal","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-the-duchess-of-sussex"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114613518581808847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151960","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=151960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}