ヘンリー王子長女は「リリベット・ダイアナ王女」　称号問題解消へ

【ロンドン（英国）ＡＦＰ＝時事】ヘンリー英王子と妻メーガン妃が、長女のリリベットちゃん（１）に「王女」の称号を使い始めた。夫妻の２人の子どもの「称号問題」は解消に向かうことになりそうだ。（写真は資料写真）
　夫妻の広報担当者は英ＰＡ通信に対し、「リリベット・ダイアナ王女」の洗礼式が３日に行われたと説明した。式は米カリフォルニア州にある夫妻の自宅で行われたとされる。
　長男アーチーちゃん（３）とリリベットちゃんは、昨年９月に王子の父チャールズ国王が即位したことで自動的に「王子」と「王女」となった。しかし、英王室の公式ウェブサイトにある王位継承順位のページでは、敬称は「君」と「嬢」のままとなっている。
　英王室はこれについてＰＡ通信に対し、ページを更新する予定だと述べた。
　王子夫妻は２０２０年に王族を離脱しカリフォルニア州に移住したが、称号の使用をめぐる問題は火種の一つとなっていた。メーガン妃は２１年３月放送の米トーク番組司会者オプラ・ウィンフリーさんとのインタビューで、王室はアーチーちゃんを「王子にしたくなかった」と語っていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/03/09-15:54）

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have begun calling their young daughter Lilibet a princess, apparently ending uncertainty over the royal titles of their two children.
Confirming her baptism last Friday to the PA news agency, a spokesperson for the couple referred to her as Princess Lilibet Diana.
The christening reportedly took place at the California home of the couple, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Buckingham Palace confirmed to PA that it would now update its website's line of succession list.
Although the two children automatically became a prince and princess when Harry's father King Charles III acceded to the throne in September, they had remained listed as plain master and miss on the website.
The titles had emerged as a contentious issue after the Sussexes quit royal life and moved to California in 2020.
In an interview with US chat show host Oprah Winfrey in March 2021, Meghan said that Buckingham Palace didn't want him (Archie) to become a prince.
In fact, Archie, now aged three, not being a prince was due to title rules set out by King George V in 1917.
Those rules state that the title of prince or princess is only accorded to the male line grandchildren of the monarch and one other member of the family, not the great grandchildren.
The status of Archie and 21-month-old Lilibet changed from great grandchildren to grandchildren of a monarch on the death of Queen Elizabeth II last year.
Under George V's rules, the only other member of the family entitled to be a prince is the eldest great grandson in the direct line of succession.
This resulted in the first child of Harry's brother Prince William and his wife Catherine being known as Prince George.
His younger sister and brother, Charlotte and Louis, also became a princess and prince after the late queen changed the rules in 2012 to include them.
Since they moved to the US, Harry and Meghan have complained bitterly about their treatment as members of the royal family.
Their latest broadside, the January publication of Harry's autobiography Spare is said to have significantly worsened relations between the self-exiled couple and other senior royals.