Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s Children May Inherit Royal Titles If This Happens

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s future children may inherit royal titles if the case requesting an old ruling to be changed will be approved.

As of late, Prince Harry and Markle’s son is the only person that inherit the dukedom, and their daughter will not be bestowed with a title. But a case is now being put forward to the ECHR so that all of Prince Harry and Markle’s kids will be given royal titles.

Richard Fitzwilliams, a royal expert, told Independent, “Under the current system, any child of the Duke and Duchess won’t automatically have a royal title. The peerage, unlike the succession to the crown, favors males and if they have only daughters, the title of Sussex could die out as it did before.”

As such, the ECHR is being challenged to focus its attention on the five women who are daughters of peers but don’t have the right to sit in the House of Lords. The case was submitted by a group of lawyers in Strasbourg, France last week, and is now being lobbied by Daughters’ Rights.

Charlotte Carew Pole, the head of the group, told The Times, “It is 100 years since women got the vote and it is outrageous that women still don’t have the right of election to our upper house. This is the last-state-sanctioned sexual discrimination and it needs to be eradicated from the statute book.”

In 2013, the Succession to the Crown Act outlined that the gender of a member of the royal family will no longer dictate where they stood in the line of succession. This meant that when Prince Louis was born on April 23, his older sister, Princess Charlotte, made history by becoming the first female royal to retain her position in the line of succession.

Simply put, Princess Charlotte will still reign over Prince Louis even though the latter is a boy. The Succession of the Crown Act was created with Prince William and Kate Middleton’s children in mind, but not Prince Harry and Markle. After all, Prince Harry just met Markle in 2016.