{"id":23855,"date":"2019-05-17T10:48:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1042382"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:48:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T16:48:31","slug":"why-meghan-markle-is-listed-as-a-princess-on-archies-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/why-meghan-markle-is-listed-as-a-princess-on-archies-birth-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Meghan Markle Is Listed as a Princess on Archie&#8217;s Birth Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201948\/rs_600x600-190508043646-600-Meghan-Markle-Prince-Harry-Royal-Baby-J1R-50819.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32.27890625\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15.5265625\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/meghan_markle\">Meghan Markle<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s occupation, as listed on her baby&#8217;s birth certificate, may confuse some people.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, son&nbsp;<strong>Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor<\/strong>, last week. On&nbsp;Friday, his birth certificate was released to the press. On it, his mother is listed as&nbsp;&#8220;Rachel<span class=\"highlight\">&nbsp;Meghan<\/span>&nbsp;Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex&#8221;\u2014noting her real first name, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1042321\/mystery-solved-here-s-where-meghan-markle-gave-birth-to-baby-archie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Princess of the United Kingdom&#8221;&nbsp;listed as her occupation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former <em>Suits<\/em> actress&#8217;&nbsp;sister-in-law <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kate_middleton\">Kate Middleton<\/a><\/strong>, the Duchess of Cambridge,&nbsp;has an identical occupation listed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/931171\/royal-duty-kate-middleton-and-prince-william-list-their-occupations-on-prince-louis-birth-certificate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">birth certificates<\/a> of her and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/prince_william\">Prince William<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s three kids.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.364261168385\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.6426116838488\">\n<p>The tradition of using the word &#8220;princess&#8221; to describe the status of a prince&#8217;s wife in the U.K. dates back to 1923, when <strong>Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon<\/strong> married <strong>Prince Albert, the Duke of York<\/strong>, second son of <strong>King George V<\/strong>, royal historian and <a href=\"https:\/\/royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal Musings<\/a>&nbsp;blogger&nbsp;<strong>Marlene Koenig<\/strong>&nbsp;told E! News.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.517021276596\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.565957446809\">\n<p>&#8220;The Duke and Duchess of York were later known as <strong>King George VI<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/queen_elizabeth\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a><\/strong>, the parents of Queen Elizabeth II,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The press of the day asked about the status of the new Duchess of York. <strong>Lord Stamfordham&nbsp;<\/strong>[the king&#8217;s private secretary] issued a statement: &#8216;In accordance with the settled general rule that a wife takes the status of her husband, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on her marriage has become Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York with the status of a Princess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harry is a prince, so his wife is a princess,&#8221; Koenig said. &#8220;In the U.K., a wife takes her husband&#8217;s rank unless her rank is higher, such as a peeress or a sovereign or a princess, unless she marries a sovereign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1042382\/why-meghan-markle-is-listed-as-a-princess-on-archie-s-birth-certificate?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle&#8216;s occupation, as listed on her baby&#8217;s birth certificate, may confuse some people. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, son&nbsp;Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, last week. On&nbsp;Friday, his birth certificate was released to the press. On it, his mother is listed as&nbsp;&#8220;Rachel&nbsp;Meghan&nbsp;Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex&#8221;\u2014noting her real first name, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 08:05:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}