Due to their decision to step down from their respective official Royal Family duties, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, no longer use HRH titles.
In 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex decided to step away from official royal duties – and over the following years, this has often led to confusion over how the couple should be referred to.
Scott Moore, the CEO of Prince Harry’s Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025, revealed the surprising way he was told to address Meghan Markle. The advice he received was a far cry from the traditional form of address for a former senior Royal.
As detailed in Richard Eden’s column for the Daily Mail last year, Moore shared: “I did make sure to ask how I should be addressing them when they get here.” He was informed that a simple “‘Ma’am’ is fine.’ He was also told a simple ‘Sir’ was fine to address the Duke of Sussex.”
Typically, male members of the Royal Family are first addressed as ‘Your Royal Highness’, followed by ‘Sir’, while female members are referred to as ‘Your Royal Highness’, and then ‘Ma’am’.
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However, after Harry and Meghan’s decision to step back as senior working royals in 2020, they were stripped of their HRH titles. This means they cannot be addressed as Your Royal Highness, but they can retain their Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles, reports Gloucestershire Live.
The choice for Prince Harry to be addressed with formal titles such as Sir and ‘Ma’am’ for Meghan Markle starkly contrasts his earlier stance in 2020. At that time, during a tourism conference in Edinburgh, Harry famously insisted on informality. Ayesha Hazarika, the event host, disclosed: “He’s made it clear that we are all just to call him Harry.”
Instead of Mountbatten-Windsor, the two-year-olds Archie and Lilibet, who are five years old, have adopted the surname “Sussex,” breaking with a royal custom established in 1960. Following advice from her counsellors, the Queen decreed that all of her male-line ancestors would bear the Mountbatten-Windsor surname.
In an interview last week, Harry insisted that he did not regret his decision to publish details about his family in his autobiography, Spare. He told The Guardian: “My conscience is clear.”
Harry continued by saying he will “always love the UK” and refuted claims that he was unhappy with his life, adding, “Something about this talk about me being down or saying I’m not smiling is where you see it.” People who believe they are aware of what I’m thinking and feeling are doing this. They are incorrect.
Source: Mirror
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