If there's one thing Prince Harry desperately wants in his life is to have his son with Meghan Markle grow up with a normal childhood. This is one of the reasons why the Duke and Duchess of Sussex chose for Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor to bear no royal title so that the child could have a more private life compared to Prince William and Kate Middleton's children.
In a podcast interview for "Royals," British royal family expert Angela Mollard said that she is aware Prince Harry wants his children with Duchess Meghan to grow up in a similar environment as the children of his cousins, Peter Phillips and Zara Phillips Tindall. Peter and Zara are the children of Princess Anne and the eldest grandson and granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth.
Despite their royal lineage, Peter and Zara do not use any title. Their children, with wife Autumn (for Peter) and husband Mike (for Zara), also do not have princess titles attached to their names. Mollard said that, after reading the work of biographer Angela Levin about the royals, she believes Prince Harry is determined to have Archie grow up and enjoy life away from the limelight as his cousin's family.
By choice, Princess Anne declined Queen Elizabeth's offer to give Peter and Zara titles at their birth. Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan have also done the same for Archie, unlike Prince William and Kate Middleton, whose children all have royal titles -- Prince George, 5, Princess Charlotte, 4, and Prince Louis, 1.
Apparently, Prince Harry believes it was smart of his aunt to let his cousins have no titles to their names. Thus, they were able to live as normal private citizens.
However, podcast host and royal observer Zoe Burrell do not think that being without a title will make Archie less inconspicuous in public since his parents have made the Sussex name a brand. Burrell said Archie will have attention, thus little privacy, because the public will always be interested in the son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
In fact, Burrell thinks that Archie will get the same attention as the Cambridge children as he grows older. She advised Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan instead to take a page off Prince William and Duchess Kate's book. They make their children visible in public to acknowledge public interest, but they also have control over how to fulfill this interest.
