King Charles Snub Prince Harry, Andrew After Promoting Princess Anne, Edward: Royal Experts

King Charles reportedly snubbed Prince Harry and Prince Andrew by giving Princess Anne and Prince Edward a promotion.

Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers joined "Today" and talked about King Charles' birthday. The British monarch turned 74 years old Monday.

On the same day, he promoted his siblings, Princess Anne and Prince Edward, to be part of his official stand-ins as Counsellors of State. The host noted that there was no brotherly love for the Duke of York following the monarch's move, and Myers noted the same could be said toward his son, Prince Harry.

"Well I don't think it's there," Myers said, agreeing with the host. "You can put his son Prince Harry into this as well because it was in the House of Lords that both of them have been snubbed, and it's called Counsellors of State, and these are the people who are in charge if he is otherwise deposed, I mean out of country or ill and they have to take over the state business."

He continued, "It does definitely seem that Andrew and Prince Harry have been given the elbow for their respective sort of insolences against the monarchy."

Prince Harry's biographer Angela Levin echoed the same sentiment. She believed that the addition of Princess Anne and Prince Edward would mean that Prince Andrew and Prince Harry would be less likely to be called to step in for the king when he is away.

"Of course, it is a slight to Harry and Andrew - but there's a good reason, and it's necessary," the author of "Harry: A Biography of a Prince" told Mail Online. "Harry and Meghan would be absolutely furious. But he lives in California, he's stopped being a working royal, so why should he [be a Counsellor of State]."

Levin added that the decision wasn't about Prince Harry but what the king needed. "Reading between the lines it allows him the ensure that the right people are doing the right job," she added.

Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said the move was an "important and long overdue reform." He also believed it was "symbolically significant too that it has been announced on King Charles's birthday."

In September, a report from The Telegraph claimed that King Charles wanted to remove Prince Harry and Prince Andrew as Counsellors of State because he wanted his stand-ins to be working royals. Before the addition of Princess Anne and Prince Edward, the Counsellors of State were the next four people in the line of succession over 21 years of age. At present, the Counsellors of State are Prince William, Prince Harry, Prince Andrew and Princess Beatrice.

King Charles reportedly wanted to amend the law "as soon as he can" because he "recognizes the incongruity of having a trio of non-working Royals able to step into his shoes if he is abroad or incapacitated."