{"id":328858,"date":"2026-08-25T00:18:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328858\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:18:56","slug":"prince-william-could-follow-in-one-queens-title-stripping-footsteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328858\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William Could Follow in One Queen’s Title-Stripping Footsteps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince William<\/a> hasn\u2019t been shy about his plans to modernize the monarchy<\/a> when he eventually takes the throne. In October 2025, the Prince of Wales told actor Eugene Levy that \u201cchange for good<\/a>\u201d was on his \u201cagenda,\u201d and in his recent Substack<\/a>, royal biographer Andrew Morton<\/a> wondered if that might include removing titles of some of William\u2019s family members.<\/p>\n

Now that Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan Markle will be moving back to the U.K.<\/a>\u2014at least for the current school year, it seems\u2014Morton wrote that King Charles\u2019s \u201ccautious embrace of his returning prodigal son\u201d will likely ruffle feathers with Prince William.<\/p>\n

The brothers haven\u2019t spoken in several years following Prince Harry\u2019s move to America and bombshell memoir, Spare<\/a>. And with tensions still running high, Morton wrote that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now \u201cwell on the way to getting what they wanted\u201d of being \u201chalf-in, half-out<\/a>\u201d royals despite Queen Elizabeth\u2019s wishes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe only way that Queen Elizabeth II<\/a>\u2019s decision can now be honoured is if their titles are stripped along with their children,\u201d the Diana: Her True Story\u2014In Her Own Words<\/a> author wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cOtherwise, they are working royals by proxy with all the freedom and earning power they wanted in the first place,\u201d he added, referencing the couple\u2019s commercial work <\/a>that they plan to continue while living in the U.K. while also carrying out their private charity work.<\/p>\n

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Morton pointed to a controversial decision<\/a> made by Denmark\u2019s former monarch, Queen Margrethe, as an example of the path William might choose to take when he becomes King.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s clear an ailing King Charles<\/a> will not resolve this irreconcilable tension, but a future King William V may very well follow Queen Margrethe of Denmark<\/a>, who stripped four of her grandchildren of their royal titles, and remove those of his brother and his cousins Beatrice and Eugenie,\u201d Morton wrote.<\/p>\n

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Queen Margrethe is pictured during her 86th birthday celebrations in April 2026.<\/p>\n

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Queen Margrethe has two sons, King Frederik<\/a> and Prince Joachim, and in 2022, she announced that the titles of Joachim\u2019s four children would be discontinued in an attempt to streamline the monarchy.<\/p>\n

If Prince William took the same step and removed the titles of Prince Harry and Meghan, along with those of non-working royals Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie<\/a>, Morton says that he\u2019d likely \u201cfind a public broadly supportive of such a measure.\u201d<\/p>\n

No matter what the Prince of Wales chooses to do in regards to his brother is anyone\u2019s guess. But as Morton noted, \u201cWhat happens next may surprise us, and it\u2019s quite possible King William V<\/a> will be all the better for a bit of sibling rivalry as he prepares for the job of a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince William hasn\u2019t been shy about his plans to modernize the monarchy when he eventually takes the throne.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-328858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}