Meghan Markle, who was dubbed Duchess of Sussex by the late Queen Elizabeth II when she married Prince Harry, has made it clear she has no intention of giving up her title.
Many critics of the couple have urged King Charles to strip Harry and Meghan of their titles after they made damaging allegations during their acrimonious split from the royal family.
However, in a flattering interview with People magazine to promote her new Netflix show, which premieres tomorrow, Meghan made it abundantly clear that she will not voluntarily surrender the Sussex title.
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“It’s our shared name as a family, and I guess I hadn’t recognized how meaningful that would be to me until we had children,” she said. “I love that that is something that Archie, Lili, H, and I all have together. It means a lot to me.”
Meghan added, “I think as the kids get older, they’re so excited about, ‘Oh my gosh, Mama and Papa, how did you meet?’ I think that will come with time as they get older, but for right now, a huge part of our love story is that we share the name Sussex.”
Meghan did not talk about her and Harry’s estrangement from her father or Harry’s family in the interview.
In the interview, she mentioned that she and her husband are in a “honeymoon period” on the eve of the debut of her home and cooking show, With Love, Meghan.
The comments seem designed to dispel rumors that the couple’s marriage is in trouble after a recent Vanity Fair report claimed Meghan had toyed with the idea of writing a book about getting divorced should she ever get a divorce from Harry.
Meghan also told People that Harry “loves” watching her as she works on her renamed lifestyle brand As Ever and said it reminds him of when they first knew each other and she had a website called The Tig.
“My husband met me when I had The Tig, and I see this spark in his eye when he sees me doing the thing that I was doing when he first met me,” she said. “It’s almost like a honeymoon period again, because it’s exactly how it was in the beginning when he’d watch me scribbling away, writing newsletters, fine-tuning edits and just really being in the details of it. I think he loves watching as much as I love doing that creative process.”
Meghan shuttered the site in April 2017 as she prepared to enter royal life.
Meghan gave further insight into what she projected as a happy and idyllic life with Harry and her two young children on their sprawling Montecito estate, saying she and Harry have “day dates” in the afternoon over lunch and spend their evenings having “nightcap recaps,” which involve a drink and making lunch boxes for their kids.
“I think all parents in this phase with kids the same age know it’s rinse and repeat,” she said.
