{"id":737846,"date":"2026-08-14T14:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737846\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T14:42:11","slug":"why-kings-nephew-james-the-earl-of-wessex-is-breaking-protocol-with-his-royal-title-before-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737846\/","title":{"rendered":"Why King’s nephew, James the Earl of Wessex, is breaking protocol with his royal title before university"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like thousands of other teenagers, this week the King’s nephew, James, Earl of Wessex, celebrated achieving his A-levels and will soon be heading off to university \u2013 and along with that big life change comes another huge decision, concerning his title.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the royal family announced that James has opted to study at the Royal Agricultural University, in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. A statement issued said: “The Earl of Wessex will be going to the Royal Agricultural University to study Rural Land & Property Management. He will head straight there without taking a year out.”<\/p>\n

It seems that much like his sister, Lady Louise Windsor, the Earl of Wessex has broken from royal protocol and has ditched the ‘HRH’ (His Royal Highness) styling before his name and title \u2013 something you’d expect to be present in a formal announcement from the Palace. <\/p>\n

It’s a decision that his parents, Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, and Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, have previously commented is one they’re allowing they’re children to make for themselves.<\/p>\n

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The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, with their children James and Louise<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Sunday Times<\/a> back in 2020, the Duchess said, “We try to bring [James and Louise] up with the understanding they are very likely to have to work for a living. Hence, we made the decision not to use HRH titles. They have them and can decide to use them from 18, but I think it\u2019s highly unlikely.”<\/p>\n

When James’ sister, Louise, graduated from the University of St Andrews this year and was announced as ‘Louise Mountbatten-Windsor’, so this could also be a name he opts for over.<\/p>\n

Prior to university, James has been undertaking some work experience on his uncle’s, King Charles, Sandringham Estate, with one anonymous fellow employee telling the press, “He might be the King\u2019s nephew, but he is more than happy to get his hands dirty and muck in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like thousands of other teenagers, this week the King’s nephew, James, Earl of Wessex, celebrated achieving his A-levels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,224373,379,243921,381,96,190731,1156,243920,223205,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-collection-the-royal-family","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-00227fe4-d073-4e85-810b-b68860cf7325","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-why-kings-nephew-has-broken-protocol-with-title","tag-sponsored-false","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}