The Real Reason Meghan Markle Changed Her Name & How It Differs From Prince Harry’s
Meghan Markle’s new show With Love is now on Netflix. The lifestyle series sees the Duchess of Sussex and celebrity friends like Roy Choi, Mindy Kaling, and Alice Waters sharing personal tips and tricks, with the intention of showcasing the joys of cooking, gardening, entertaining, and friendship. It’s a far cry from Markle’s time in front of the camera on Suits, but it does bring her back to where she started.
Markle, after all, went from a series regular role in the law drama to marrying Prince Harry. As if that wasn’t enough, a few years later, the two walked away from being working royals and moved to the United States. All these years later, that’s led them to this new Netflix show, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s fifth project with Netflix.
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With Love was originally set to premiere in January but was postponed because of the Los Angeles wildfires. Now that it’s premiered, however, people are hyper-focusing on a lot of what Markle is saying in the episodes, from some of the recipes to the house the show was filmed in and whether it is Markle’s real house, without forgetting her last name.
But what is Meghan Markle’s last name now? How does it differ from Harry’s? Did she change it? We have the answer.
What’s Meghan Markle’s last name now?
The Duchess of Sussex answers the question of her last name during With Love, correcting Mindy Kaling, who calls her by her maiden name. “It’s so funny you keep saying Markle,’ Meghan said. “You know it’s Sussex now. You have kids and you go, I share my name with my children. I didn’t know how meaningful it would be to me but it just means so much to go, this is our family name. Our little family now.”
She went on to explain to People in an interview. “’It’s our shared name as a family, and I guess I hadn’t recognised how meaningful that would be to me until we had children. I love that that is something that Archie, Lili, H, and I all have together. It means a lot to me.”
Meghan and Harry received the titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles from the late Queen Elizabeth II upon their marriage. Their children’s official titles are Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet of Sussex. But what is Harry’s last name? Like all members of the royal family, Prince Harry was born without an official last name. He is, however, listed as His Royal Highness Henry Charles Albert David Duke of Sussex. But though they all now use the name Sussex, when Archie and Lilibet were born, they were given the last name Mountbatten-Windsor.
The hyphenated last name was decided in 1960 when the late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip decided to give their untitled descendants their own last name.
And the entire family was involved in With Love, with the Duchess telling People about her children. “They would also come with my husband and visit me on-set, and I loved that my children were able to watch me working and see the balance of that and understand what Mama does and is working to create and share. It was really special because up until then, they hadn’t seen me at work.”
Things might have changed from when she was Meghan Markle working on Suits, but the more things change it seems, the more they stay the same.
