New York Post

Couple’s claims are fairy tales

- Amanda Woods and Kate Sheehy

Some of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s claims are just royal BS, reports say.

Despite what they claimed in the their explosive TV tell-all Sunday night, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex didn’t officially marry in secret before their lavish public exchange of vows, a source close to them admitted to the BBC.

Markle told interviewe­r Oprah Winfrey during the sit-down, “Three days before our wedding, we got married. No one knows that. But we called the archbishop [of Canterbury], and we just said, ‘Look, this thing, this spectacle, is for the world, but we want our union between us.’ ”

In reality, the royal couple exchanged only unofficial private vows, the source said.

Their only real wedding was on May 19, 2018.

Also, Markle’s suggestion to Winfrey that the couple’s son, Archie, was snubbed of his birthright when he was denied the title of prince was a load of hogwash, another report said, citing the monarchy’s official protocols.

Markle told Winfrey that while still pregnant with Archie, she was told her son wouldn’t have a royal title.

Asked if she thought this was “because of his race,” the biracial Markle appeared to agree.

But The Guardian reported that under protocols establishe­d by King George V in 1917, only children and grandchild­ren of a sovereign have the automatic right to the title His or Her Royal Highness or prince or princess.

Archie is the great-grandchild of Queen Elizabeth.

Archie’s cousin Prince George — the eldest son of Harry’s older brother, Prince William — has the birthright of the prince title because he is in the direct line of succession to the throne, The Guardian explained.

Before George’s birth, the queen issued letters to ensure the children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, William and his wife, Kate Middleton, would have the titles of prince and princess.

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