(My Gawd, why oh why am I allowing myself to get enmeshed in this....)

Meghan knew that Archie is not entitled to be a prince, as he is (a) not a grandchild of the Queen, (b) not the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. Now there are shenanigans surrounding this. First, the Queen relaxed the protocol a few years ago which then allowed all William's brood, not just his eldest son, to be princes and princesses. Second, under current protocol Archie should become a prince as soon as Charlie becomes the big enchilada, which can't be that much longer in coming unless Her Maj becomes the world's oldest woman. There are two caveats here. First, does that still apply now that Archie's dad has flown the coop - who knows? Not I! Second, when we eventually have King Homeopath I, he's been saying vague things about "slimming down the royals," though nobody yet knows what that means. Charlie had better tread carefully there. If it's perceived that the "slimming down" has been used to prevent Archie's princitude from coming about, the whole issue of skin tone will be resurrected and we'll have yet another right royal bunch of wigs on the green. As we know, one of the chief attributes of our royals is their utter inability to tread carefully. How long does popcorn keep?

Incidentally, lifted from the interview:

The Sussexes indicated in the interview that they had expected Archie would be given the title of prince after Charles acceded the throne, but that they had been told that protocols would be changed - in line with Charles’s wish for a slimmed down monarchy - so that Archie would be excluded from becoming an HRH and prince.

Asked if Archie being a prince was important to her, she replied: “If it meant he was going to be safe, then of course.”

She added: “All the grandeur surrounding this stuff is an attachment I don’t have. I’ve been a waitress, an actress, a princess, a duchess. I’m clear on who I am, independent of that stuff. The most important title I will ever have is ‘Mom’.”

Meghan was not asking for something that would have made Archie an exception, and she knew the protocols. The couple were told during her pregnancy with Archie that the protocol would be changed when Charles got the big job, preventing Archie from becoming a prince. Nothing has been made public about that. If that actually happens, and here's me being all whimsical, I suppose the couple would have a strong case under the Trade Descriptions Act...

Seems to me that Archie either becomes a prince under the current protocol once Charles is on the throne, or else there's going to be a mighty race row, and it won't be of the couple's making....