{"id":83931,"date":"2024-03-19T22:44:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-demoted-on-royal-website\/"},"modified":"2024-03-19T22:44:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:44:31","slug":"prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-demoted-on-royal-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/19\/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-demoted-on-royal-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Demoted on Royal Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/prince-harry-15100\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Prince Harry<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/meghan-markle-41227\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Meghan Markle<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s reality of no long being working members of the British royal family was recognized in a big way, when the website featuring biographies for the family members saw their presence drastically reduced on Monday, March 18, four years after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-relationship-timeline-see-pics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stepping down from their roles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harry, 39, and Meghan, 42, previously each had lengthy biography pages devoted to them along with an elegant photo from their days as a working royal.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the couple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/sussex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are under one biography<\/a> for \u201cThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex,\u201d with a featured photo showing them sitting on the beach wearing floral leis during a 2018 visit to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is their photo far more casual than any of the other royal family members featured on the page, but the duo has also found themselves at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/royal-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the very bottom<\/a> underneath 11 current working royals and the late Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s son, <strong>Prince Andrew<\/strong>. He stepped down from royal duties in November 2019 due to his controversial connection to late alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:73.75%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"photo-credit\"><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unlike their previous biographies, Harry and Meghan\u2019s new one makes it very clear that they no longer represent the king or the Commonwealth. The top of their bio page begins with the sentence, \u201cAs announced in January 2020, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have stepped back as working members of The Royal Family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harry formerly had a bio page featuring roughly 2,600 words about his royal life, education, accomplishments and more, while Meghan\u2019s page was made up of 1,290 words about her humanitarian work prior to the royal family, college education and personal causes close to her heart.<\/p>\n<p>The duke\u2019s description now has quick mentions of his time in the army, charities he founded and previous overseas tours he did on behalf of Queen Elizabeth before stepping down from royal life.<\/p>\n<p>Meghan\u2019s \u201cabout\u201d section talks about her working as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/meghan-markle-reacts-to-wild-suits-newfound-popularity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actress on <em>Suits<\/em><\/a> as well as, \u201cThe Duchess also wrote and edited a lifestyle website called The Tig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the \u201ctitles\u201d part of their biography, it is noted, \u201cThe Duke and Duchess were given their titles by Queen Elizabeth II on the day of their marriage.\u201d Throughout their bio page, neither Harry nor Meghan was directly named, instead being referred to only as \u201cthe duke\u201d and \u201cthe duchess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A section called \u201cStatements and Announcements\u201d has been added that includes links to Harry and Meghan\u2019s January 8, 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B7EaGS_Jpb9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram announcement<\/a> that they planned to step down as senior working royals and wanted to carve a half-in, half-out plan.<\/p>\n<p>That is followed by the late queen\u2019s statement 12 days later following the Sandringham Summit as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/statement-her-majesty-queen-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one from Buckingham Palace<\/a>, which read, \u201cAs agreed in this new arrangement, they understand that they are required to step back from royal duties, including official military appointments. They will no longer receive public funds for Royal duties,\u201d about Harry and Meghan. It also included how the pair were not to use their H.R.H. titles, as they were no longer working members of the family.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royal.uk\/buckingham-palace-statement-duke-and-duchess-sussex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final announcement<\/a> was from February 2021, following the one-year grace period the queen gave the couple to change their minds and return to the fold. \u201cThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have confirmed to Her Majesty the Queen that they will not be returning as working members of The Royal Family,\u201d the statement from Buckingham Palace read.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that Harry and Meghan would be stripped of any honorary military appointments and royal patronages they had, which would be redistributed among working members of the royal family. The statement concluded, \u201cWhile all are saddened by their decision, The Duke and Duchess remain much loved members of the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-demoted-on-royal-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2018s reality of no long being working members of the British royal family was recognized in a big way, when the website featuring biographies for the family members saw their presence drastically reduced on Monday, March 18, four years after stepping down from their roles. Harry, 39, and Meghan, 42, previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}