{"id":331106,"date":"2025-08-09T17:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331106\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T17:42:14","slug":"the-buckingham-palace-statement-meghan-just-defied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/331106\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buckingham Palace statement Meghan just defied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/618073_6788018_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Meghan Markle: File photo\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meghan Markle: File photo<\/p>\n<p>Meghan Markle has once again sparked debate over her agreement with the royal family by appearing to use her \u201cHer Royal Highness\u201d title, despite pledging not to employ it in any official capacity.<\/p>\n<p>A clip shared Friday on the \u201cAs Ever\u201d Instagram story shows Meghan promoting Together: Our Community Cookbook, for which she wrote the foreword.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/618073_8878880_updates.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of a clip shared by Meghans brand As Ever\" width=\"497\" height=\"768\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A screenshot of a clip shared by Meghan&#8217;s brand As Ever<\/p>\n<p>The video appears to display her full royal style, \u201cHer Royal Highness,\u201d a designation she retained after stepping back from senior royal duties in 2020 but agreed not to use in an official capacity.<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/618073_2840186_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Buckingham Palace statement on Harry and Meghans HRH titles issued in 2020\" width=\"645\" height=\"866\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Buckingham Palace statement on Harry and Meghan&#8217;s HRH titles issued in 2020<\/p>\n<p>A couple of months ago, BBC reported that Meghan used the title HRH on a card accompanying a personal gift to US cosmetics entrepreneur Jamie Kern Lima. The card read: \u201cWith the Compliments of HRH The Duchess of Sussex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Prince Harry and Meghan stepped back from senior royal duties, Buckingham Palace announced that the couple \u201cwill not use their HRH titles as they are no longer working members of the Royal Family.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That 2020 agreement, approved by Queen Elizabeth II, also confirmed they would no longer receive public funds or hold official military appointments.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the couple told the BBC the card\u2019s wording did not breach the agreement, noting it was not for any public or official purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the latest appearances have drawn attention, and renewed questions, over whether Meghan is honoring the spirit of the palace\u2019s original statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle: File photo Meghan Markle has once again sparked debate over her agreement with the royal family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-331106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115000046263926266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331106","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=331106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}