Princess Lilibet was christened 3/3 in LA

I imagine this thread is going to convey a lot of unpleasantness about the various adults here, but that little girl looks happy and sweet and I love her dress.

Good for her, I guess? Im not sure why they felt the need to tell us she was christened. I suspect it was so they could say Charles, Camilla, Will and Kate didn't come. Honestly, I am surprised they would go considering all the trash that was spilled in Harrys book.

I agree with epeanymous - cute photo and she looks happy.

Ha! You are probably right. 

They can follow up the World Privacy Tour with the World Hypocrisy Tour.

Omid is such a tool.

When you look at the way the article is headlined/styled in People, there is no doubt PRINCESS is the point. The subtitle reads:

“As grandchildren of the monarch, Archie and Lilibet are afforded the titles of prince and princess”

Archie and Lillibet are now grandchildren of the monarch, since the Queen died. Beatrice and Eugenie’s children are not.

To be fair to the family, they held the 1st birthday party during the Queens Platinum Jubilee when every minute of the events were timetabled to the nth degree.  Very few people could attend whether they wanted to or not.

Yes, technically it's accurate, the Letters Patent says that children and grandchildren of the Monarch have the titles Prince and Princess.

Andrew's daughter's children that are born now will be the grandnephew and grandniece of the Monarch so they are not entitled to be Prince or Princess, and those born while the Queen was alive were greatgrandchildren...so also not entitled.
If either Andrew or Edward fathered another baby now, they would also not be entitled to be styled as Prince or Princess as they would not be the grandchildren of the current Monarch.

That was the whole deal about Meghan on Oprah claiming she was somehow being discriminated against because Archie "wasn't made a Prince" and trying to hint it was because of his skin colour but at the time of his birth he wasn't entitled to it until Charles became King and then it was assumed it would be automatic. However there hasn't been any formal announcement so it's been a bit unclear if they could/would use those titles or not...but now either Charles has formally approved it, or they've just gone..."we can use those titles if we want....and you can't stop us"

William and Kate’s kids do have titles, and have had them since birth. In their case, as they were in direct line of succession - their dad is (presumptive) future King - they were given titles by the Queen.

I made it a bit clearer after you quoted me - given that Eugenie and Beatrice will both have babies before and after Charles became King


Well it's hard to say, anything could be happening behind the scenes that the public don't know about, but so far it's been a bit of a mystery because there has not been any sort of public announcement from either Charles or "the palace" on their official titles.

The Letters Patent does say "the grandchildren of the Monarch"...which is what they both are so one point of view is that they meet the criteria, so there's nothing to announce. Others seemed to think that Charles would make some formal statement...like he did with William becoming Prince Of Wales...even though that was never in doubt.

Omid is definitely the Sussex mouthpiece and he's never called the children Prince or Princess before, so him suddenly doing it makes me think it was Harry & Meghan's way of announcing that they are going to use those titles now, possibly whether Charles officially OKed it or not.

ETA: they're probably mad about the eviction from Frogmore Cottage, and this is their retaliation move.

This guy isn’t really a “reporter.”

He is famously Megain and Hazbeen’s mouthpiece and tweets whatever they tell him to tweet.

I absolutely believe they were told not to use titles for their kids (their kids did not have titles on the official RF website) and they did this to force a response.

Other Royal Houses of Europe have been stripping the grandchildren of titles so the precedent is there should King Charles decide to slim down the family like he has been saying for years. apple.news/AKvjPq8A7Qw6L6YcE4foh0g

I wonder if the timing was such that they were waiting for their official invitation to the Coronation and have now hit back with this. “I see your Coronation and raise you one christening and the future use of Royal titles”.

He was on in the Netflix series saying he was asked to be her Godfather...but said he wasn't prepared to fly to London and "do all that" [with the evil/racist royals]

The whole situation with him is so dysfunctional, he swallows everything Meghan says about how mistreated they were and even though they'd never met she rang him sobbing and he had to swoop in on his private jet to "rescue" two adults in their late 30s from one of the most privileged families in the world.

However I'll bet he says nothing about them using the Prince and Princess titles from that same family he had to save them from and that he refused to attend a Christening with.

Nah, Archie’s godparents aren’t famous. A few of them have been revealed (Megain’s friends and a former Royal nanny). Remember Archie’s christening was before Megxit, so it was a dignified affair.