... and could Parliament strip him and Meghan of their titles?

PARLIAMENT could consider stripping Harry and Meghan of their royal titles, it emerged yesterday.

Conservative MP Bob Seely is putting forward a Bill this week that could deny the couple their duke and duchess titles.

He believes the race row that started with their extraordinary interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021 is now being used to smear the Royal Family.

Writing in The Mail on Sunday, Mr Seely said that while sources close to the Sussexes have stressed Harry and Meghan are not behind claims about members of the Royal Family in Omid Scobie’s book, ‘I suspect that few people believe such denials’.

The politician added: ‘Of all the damaging insults to throw, “racism” is the most poisonously insidious, guaranteed to leave a whiff of stigma, and impossible to prove when false. It is the catch-all slur of the modern era.’

He went on: ‘I’m not a republican and support the monarchy, but after the latest instalment of the couple’s feud with the rest of the Royal Family, I believe that Parliament and the Privy Council should consider a nuclear option.’ The Isle of Wight MP wants to adapt laws originally passed in the First World War to deny enemy German nobles their British titles. His Bill would force the Commons to consider turning Harry and Meghan into plain Mr and Mrs Sussex.

Mr Seely’s draft legislation is formally titled ‘a Bill to amend [ the Act] to deprive in certain circumstances Princes of their British Dignities and Titles’. The original 191 Act allowed the Privy Council to make a report about British nobles suspected of aiding the enemy.

If neither the Commons nor the Lords tabled a motion opposing it within 40 days, the report would be presented to the monarch and the person concerned would lose their title.

■ Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter has called on the Royal Family to acknowledge its part in colonialism in the past and even consider paying reparations.

Ndileka Mandela was asked her views after Caribbean nations demanded that the King make a formal apology for slavery earlier this year.

‘Consider the nuclear option’