Prince Harry’s attempt: leave the surname Windsor and take Spencer, that of the mother

The Daily Mail In its Sunday edition it tells, exclusively, of an attempt that would have been made by Prince Harry. He would have asked Princess’s brother Diana for advice regarding the change of the surname in Spencer. Some sources reported to the tabloid that the Duke of Sussex would have evaluated the possibility of taking the mother’s surname, leaving Mountbatten-Windsor, who is that of his family and what his children bring: Archie and Lilibet.

He would discuss the question with Count Charles Spencer during a visit to Great Britain. The answer would not have been positive. A friend of Harry would report to the newspaper: “They had a very friendly conversation and Spencer advised him to take such a step.” A choice of this type would have definitively truncated the relationship between Harry, his brother William and his father, King Carlo.

Mountbatten-Windsor is the surname of the descendants of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Filippo, by choice since 1960. He brings together the surname of the Duke of Edinburgh, who was that of his uncle who had grown it, and that of the royal family, Windsorchosen at the time of Elizabeth’s grandfather to eliminate too Germanic Coburg Gotha in the years of the First World War. Filippo had adopted the surname Mountbatten becoming a naturalized British citizen at the time of renunciation of the Greek and Danish royal title in 1947.

On their birth certificates, the children of the Duke and the Duchess of Sussex are Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor and Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. I am prince and princess not by birth, but from the rise to the throne of his grandfather Carlo. Changing in Spencer, the little girl would be called almost like the grandmother: Lilibet Diana Spencer. But Meghan Markle has often pointed out that the surname is Sussex.