What's Prince Harry's Last Name, Anyway? [View all]

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05/07/2018 12:01 pm ET Updated 4 hours ago

What’s Prince Harry’s Last Name, Anyway?
The British royal family doesn’t typically use a surname, but they do have one. 👑


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/prince-harry-last-name_us_5aec7f8ce4b041fd2d263580

By Kelsey Borresen


Prince Harry, who is set to marry Meghan Markle on May 19, is so widely known he needs no last name to be recognized. But have you ever wondered what his surname is?

Turns out it’s a bit complicated. For starters, British royals don’t typically use last names and often include their territorial designation in their title instead; for instance, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.

“A British royal signs only his or her first name,” royal historian Marlene Koenig, who runs the website Royal Musings, told HuffPost. “They don’t use last names because they are ‘of’ something. They are prince or princess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but are styled as ‘of Wales,’ ‘of York,’ ‘of Cambridge,’ etc.”

Prince Harry's full title is His Royal Highness Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales. And, no, Wales is not his la
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Prince Harry’s full title is His Royal Highness Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales. And, no, Wales is not his last name.

When Harry was baptized in 1984, he was given the name Henry Charles Albert David, making his full title “His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales” because his father, Charles, is the prince of Wales.

But if he needed to use a surname for one reason or another, he could use Mountbatten-Windsor.................................................................


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