Harry and Meghan ‘worried’ about being ‘eased out the royal picture’
Harry and Meghan may fear they are being ‘eased out the royal picture’ following a reshuffle of the Royal Family’s website.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who once sat around halfway down the webpage, were ‘demoted’ to slots just above the disgraced Prince Andrew.
The couple’s position on the site was altered following the death of the Queen.
Royal biographer Phil Dampier told The Sun: ‘Harry and Meghan must be worried that they are slowly being eased out of the royal picture.
‘King Charles seems to be hesitating on whether to grant Prince and Princess titles to Archie and Lilibet
‘And the fact that they have been ‘demoted’ on the Palace website is another indicator that they are not seen as working royals.’
The couple, who quit as working royals in 2020, are now placed below the likes of Princess Alexandra and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester on the Royal Family website.
But other non-working royals, such as Prince Michael of Kent and his wife, have been removed from the site completely.
Whether Harry and Meghan will suffer a similar fate is unknown, but Mr Dampier suggests King Charles may want to make their roles as non-working royals ‘clear’.
The website reshuffle comes amid rumours the new monarch has plans for a ‘slimmed-down’ monarchy.
To achieve this, he could cut key family members from the Firm, the unofficial nickname for the royals.
Mr Dampier told the Sun: ’The King will want to make it clear that they are not working royals and can’t pose as semi-official royals.
‘They are relegated to the bottom of the league table with disgraced Prince Andrew and at the moment there is no way of them climbing up it.’
Recent changes to the website were enacted to highlight the role played by working members of the Royal Family – not the order of succession – it is understood.
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: ‘Updating live on a website doesn’t quite work. We will be working through updating the website as and when we get information.’
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