During their explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry made a number of headline-grabbing claims.
Some surrounded their son Archie, both before he was born and about what the future holds for their first child.
The Duchess said that she had been told when she was pregnant that “they want to change the convention for Archie” so he would not become a prince.
“They were saying they didn’t want him to be a prince or princess, not knowing what the gender would be, which would be different from protocol,” she said in the tell-all chat with Oprah earlier this month.
Royal fans have questioned why, for example, the Duke of Gloucester is he important enough to be a prince – when Prince Harry’s son is not.
GloucestershireLive have been discovering exactly who the Duke is, and why he holds the distinguished title.
Will Archie ever become a prince?
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He is entitled to – but not yet.
The children of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would have to wait until Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, becomes king.
It is at that point they would be the grandchildren of the monarch.
Meghan referred in the interview to a “George V or George VI convention” that would mean Archie would become a prince “when Harry’s dad becomes king”.
But she later claimed the establishment were trying to…
