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Harry, Meghan to Quit Royal Jobs, Give Up 'Highness' Titles

Associated Press

   LONDON - Goodbye, your royal highnesses. Hello, life as -- almost --
   ordinary civilians.

   Prince Harry and wife Meghan will no longer use the titles "royal
   highness" or receive public funds for their work under a deal that lets
   the couple step aside as working royals, Buckingham Palace announced
   Saturday.

   Releasing details of the dramatic split triggered by the couple's
   unhappiness with life under media scrutiny, the palace said Harry and
   Meghan will cease to be working members of the royal family when the
   new arrangements take effect in the "spring of 2020."

   The radical break is more complete than the type of arrangement
   anticipated 10 days ago when the royal couple stunned Britain with an
   abrupt announcement that they wanted to step down. They said they
   planed to combine some royal duties with private work in a
   "progressive" plan, but that is no longer on the table.

   Harry and Meghan will no longer use the titles His Royal Highness and
   Her Royal Highness but will retain them, leaving the possibility that
   the couple might change their minds and return sometime in the future.

   Harry's late mother, Diana, was stripped of the Her Royal Highness
   title when she and Prince Charles divorced.

   They will be known as Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of
   Sussex. Harry will remain a prince and sixth in line to the British
   throne.

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