
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will drop HRH titles and repay £2.4m as they quit front-line royal duties
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are to stop using their HRH titles and repay millions of pounds spent renovating their Berkshire home, the couple have announced. Buckingham Palace has said under the new arrangement the couple are “required to step back from royal duties, including official military appointments” and will no longer receive public funds for royal duties. “I want to thank them for all their dedicated work across this country, the Commonwealth and beyond, and am particularly proud of how Meghan has so quickly become one of the family.” Harry will reportedly also lose his position as Captain General of the Royal Marines – a title he inherited from his grandfather Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh – and give up all his honorary military titles. A Buckingham Palace statement said Harry and Meghan could “no longer formally represent the Queen”, but the couple would “continue to uphold the values of Her Majesty” in their work.
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