Councillors forced to debate royal title use
Councillors in Brighton and Hove will be forced to debate calls for the authority to reject the usage of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s titles.
Charles Ross, who started a petition to the council, said the titles were ‘entirely non democratic and symbolic of the oppression of the general public by the wealthy elite’.
It called on Brighton and Hove Council, as well as not using the titles, to neither invite nor entertain ‘these individuals nor afford them any hospitality or courtesies above and beyond that of an ordinary member of public’.
More than 2,500 people have signed the petition online and since it has met
the required threshold it will have to be presented to councillors on October 24.
The petition has received plenty of negative reaction on social media as many have suggested the titles help boost the profile of the area.
Prince Harry and Meghan married in May 2018 and afterwards the Queen conferred on them the titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Thousands of people turned up to greet the couple in October last year on their first official visit to the county together.
They took time to greet crowds packing the streets of Chichester before viewing a rare parchment copy of the American Declaration of Independence at Edes House.
The Duke and Duchess then officially opened a new technology park at the University of Chichester’s Bognor Regis campus.
Then they visited Brighton charity the Survivors’ Network, which helps those who have experienced sexual abuse in Sussex, and the Royal Pavilion.
The royal visit showed their popularity among Sussex’s residents.