Harry and Meghan ditch children's double-barrelled surnames as they break with 64-year royal tradition
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPrince Harry and Meghan Markle have ditched their kids' double-barrelled surnames as they break with a 64-year-old royal tradition.
Instead of being known as Mountbatten-Windsors, Princess Lilibet and Prince Archie' have taken the surname Sussex. The change was made public when Harry and Meghan launched their new look website this week, the Mirror reports.
The surname Mountbatten-Windsor was decreed by the Privy Counsel - the official advisors to the late Queen Elizabeth II - in 1960 and applied to male-line descendants of Her Majesty and Prince Philip.
A source told The Times: "The reality behind the new site is very simple - it's a hub for the work the Sussexes do and it reflects the fact the family have, since the King's coronation, the same surname for the first time.
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