Thousands have signed a petition for Prince Harry to give up his royal titles. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kept their titles after their departure as senior members of the Royal Family last year.
Prince Harry’s departure as a senior member of the Royal Family seems to have pissed off a lot of people. Besides his family, of course. Word is that Prince Charles is still angry about it.
Royal expert Lady Colin Campbell, author of Meghan and Harry: The Real Story, is putting a lot of pressure on the couple. She started a petition calling for him to give up his titles.
She told the Daily Star that Prince Harry should give up his royal titles officially.
Lady Colin Campbell said: “I started it because I think it’s the right thing to do. I have spoken to people, many people, who think it’s the right thing to do and it is the solution. So from that point of view it frees him and he is big enough that he doesn’t need the royal title, he’s gone beyond that, he doesn’t need them, they are shackles that he could well do without. He doesn’t need them – he is too big for them now.”
In the petition, she wrote: “The purpose is to invite Prince Harry to voluntarily ask The Queen to put his royal style, titles and rank into abeyance, thereby freeing him from the diplomatic, political and constitutional constraints that are an inevitable part of royal rank, and further freeing him from the constitutional conflicts which his beliefs are creating, with all their implications at home and abroad, in particular in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.”
Lady Campbell continued: “As a purely private citizen, with no royal rank, style or title, he will be able to indulge his personal beliefs, as is the right of all private citizens, without the consequential possibility of damaging the institution of the Monarchy or relations between Friendly Powers.”
More than 50,000 people have signed the petition so far.
