Prince Archie's Royal Family profile reappears with glaring error after vanishing just days ago
Prince Archie's Royal Family profile reappears with a glaring error after vanishing just days ago.
On Saturday, Archie's profile on the Royal Family website vanished, it has now reappeared but with a glaring error.
The profile states: "Prince Archie of Sussex was born at 05:26 on Monday 6th May. He is the first child of The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and is seventh in line to the throne."
However, Archie is sixth in the Royal Family's line of succession.
Prince Archie's is listed as seventh in line to the throne when he is actually sixth in line
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Archie's sister Princess Lilibet of Sussex is now seventh in line to the throne.
Meghan and Harry's son was seventh in line when he was born but when Queen Elizabeth II died in September 2022, he became sixth in line to the throne.
Archie's father Prince Harry is fifth in the line of succession.
It comes as a royal commentator claimed that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's decision to use the prince and princess titles for their children scuppered King Charles's plan for the Royal Family.
The King had always intended to slim the down the monarchy once he succeeded Queen Elizabeth II.
However, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's children holding prince and princess titles will result in the Royal Family not being as streamlined as Charles intended.
The new titles for Archie and Lilibet also made it difficult for King Charles not to grant the Duke of Edinburgh title to his brother Prince Edward.
Prince Edward had been promised the title of Duke of Edinburgh by his mother Queen Elizabeth II when he married his wife Sophie in 1999.
Archie's father Prince Harry is fifth in the line of succession.
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Royal expert Richard Eden stated that the King "didn't intend" to give his brother the title as part of his plans to "slim down" the royals.
Eden told the Palace Confidential talk show: "When Harry and Meghan started using the prince and princess titles for their children, it became clear this wasn’t going to happen and then King Charles could hardly justify not giving Prince Edward the title he’d been promised by their parents.
"It was a big deal and I really think that was behind it."
However, the Duke of Edinburgh title will not be passed down to Prince Edward's son when he dies and this could be a precedent the King tries to use to stop Archie from inheriting the Duke of Sussex title from Harry according to Eden.
He said: "I have heard it said that part of the reason is that the King wants to stop Archie from inheriting that title of the Duke of Sussex. So this might be part of that, so he has now set that precedent."