According to reports, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle risk losing their titles as Duke and Duchess of Sussex for breaking their Megxit deal with Sunday night’s Oprah TV tell-all.
Courtiers gathered last week to discuss scrapping the couple’s titles and tearing up the agreement on the “Sandringham Summit” made a year ago over their departure from life as senior royals, sources said The Times of London.
“I don’t think anything is off the table after this interview, to be honest,” a source in the Royal Household told the British newspaper, referring to the possible scrapping of the couple’s titles.
Such a move would be “a big step,” admitted the source – stressing that it highlights how “chewed” Queen Elizabeth II is about the “circus” surrounding the Oprah Winfrey special airing on CBS at 8pm.
A source told the British newspaper that Harry and Meghan are “playing with fire” with the “very high stakes” interview.
Still, another source close to the Queen, who confirmed the Palace discussions during the upcoming TV chat, insisted that “the titles are not in question,” the Times stressed.
A source said, “The response will depend heavily on whether they go after the institution or the people” in the royal family.
“If they go after the people, the people come out swinging. The institution can take the blows, the people cannot ”, said the source.
“The institution is not at war, the Sussexes are at war.”