ROYAL TITLES : KATE AND MEGHAN

 KATE AND MEGHAN 

ARE THEY THE SAME OR ARE THEY DIFFERENT  FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THEIR ROYAL TITLES ?

EDIT: There have been 200 comments on my attempt to be informative, most of them completely missing the point of the answer. The point is that THEY ARE THE SAME. It is not the case that one of them has to date been treated any differently to the other. NEITHER of them is a “princess”. NEITHER has a title in her own right. BOTH are entitled to be referred to as a “princess” only in relation to their husband, ie, “Princess William” and “Princess Henry”.

In short, THE QUESTION WAS BOLLOCKS. THEY ARE THE SAME.

Anything else is irrelevant and immaterial to the question.

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Original answer follows:

Both ladies have exactly the same status at present. Each of them married a Prince of the United Kingdom, and so as common law dictates, they are each entitled to the name of their husband. Thus:

Catherine (NOT ‘Kate’) acquired the married name “Princess William of Wales”, and

Meghan acquired the married name “Princess Henry of Wales”.

To complicate matters slightly, Her Majesty the Queen was generous enough to gift both Princes with further — and equivalent — titles. It is customary for a man to use his most senior title, and in both cases that is “Duke”. So, the two princes customarily use the names

William, Duke of Cambridge, and

Henry, Duke of Sussex.

Now, those are the two gentlemen’s names. Coming back to good old Common Law, their wives can of course adopt their husbands’ names, making them

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

So, they are both Princesses (by marriage), they are both Duchesses (by marriage), and if you consider their husbands’ other titles, they are both Countesses, and both Baronesses. All for the same reasons: they are married to the Queen’s grandsons.

Looking back to your question, now, we can safely say that the underlying assertion is plain wrong. They are both Princesses by marriage. There are currently no differences in their entitlement to use their husbands’ names.

Her Majesty has been even-handed in treating both boys equally.