distanced from his family<\/a>, with reports suggesting a tense relationship. <\/p>\nThe pair now live in California, where they are raising their two children, run charities, and work on various media projects. <\/p>\n
Princess Diana<\/p>\n
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Princess Diana attends a dinner at the British Embassy in Washington, DC, November 1985. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n
Harry’s mother, the Princess of Wales, also had her HRH title removed, after her divorce from a then Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, in 1996. <\/p>\n
Diana retained her title as Princess of Wales, alongside other royal privileges, up until her tragic death in a car crash in 1997. <\/p>\n
Prince Philip<\/p>\n
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Prince Philip. (Matt Dunham\/AP)<\/p>\n
In an odd quirk, Prince Philip, consort to Queen Elizabeth, lost all of his royal titles, but immediately gained new ones. <\/p>\n
Born in Greece, Philip was once a prince of both Greece and Denmark. His family had been exiled from their homeland after Greece was defeated in a war with T\u00fcrkiye. <\/p>\n
In order to marry the then Princess Elizabeth, Philip had to to renounce his original titles. Immediately after he married, Philip became the Duke of Edinburgh and later was made a Prince of the United Kingdom by his wife \u2013 who had become Queen by then.<\/p>\n
Other royals who gave up titles for love <\/p>\n
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Princess Mako with her husband Kei Komuro. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n
A common reason for royals giving up or losing their titles is love. <\/p>\n
In Japan, Princess Mako, the niece of Emperor Naruhito, and Princess Ayako, the daughter of a former emperor’s cousin, both gave up their titles of “princess” so they could marry commoners. <\/p>\n
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Prince Johan Friso & Mabel Wisse Smit leave the church after their wedding ceremony on April 24, 2004 (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n
In 2004, Prince Friso of the Netherlands was stripped of his Prince of the Netherlands title and was pulled from the line of succession after he planned to marry commoner Mabel Wisse Smit without the permission of parliament as required by the constitution. <\/p>\n
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Prince Michael of Kent and Baroness Christine von Reibnitz at their wedding. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n
In the 1970s, Prince Michael of Kent, the cousin of Queen Elizabeth was made to forfeit his place in the line of succession so he could marry Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, a Catholic. <\/p>\n
His place was reinstated in 2015 however, after the British Government passed the Succession to the Crown Act 2013.<\/p>\n
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