prince charles is already making plans
for when he inevitably takes over the
throne from his mother queen elizabeth
in may 2021 the mirror reported that
charles had begun making plans to
downsize the british monarchy the royal
family is currently comprised of the 22
highest ranking members including prince
william and his children prince harry
and his children and prince andrew and
his children among others per the royal
family's website charles has plans to
reduce the monarchy to eight senior
working royals as royal commentator
kinsey schofield told insider these
members are said to be queen elizabeth
prince edward and sophie countess of
wessex william and kate middleton
charles and camilla the duchess of
cornwall and princess anne since
stepping away from their royal duties
harry meghan markle and their children
archie and lillabet have not been
included in this group of senior working
royals however in the past royal
commentators have stated that markle is
not happy about the fact that archie
will not be a prince in charles's new
plan historian robert lacy said in his
book battle of brothers in pursuing his
own cause of the slimmed down monarchy
prince charles had been making noises
about limiting the number of hrhs thus
cutting out archie from his future
prince ship and megan took that
personally while the press began
circulating stories about prince
charles's plans to slim down the british
monarchy in 2021 it turns out that he
had begun carrying out this plan as
early as 2019. lacey alleged in his book
that a 2019 photo which shows prince
william and kate middleton's son prince
george alongside william prince charles
and queen elizabeth was a deliberate
message sent by charles and william
about whom the heir to the throne
considers the most important members of
the royal family and it does not include
meghan markle prince harry or their
children he wrote what a fascinating and
historic image to remind us of the
essence of the royal system according to
insiders this formal photograph taken in
the buckingham palace throne room a week
before christmas 2019 was the idea of
prince charles anxious to promote his
cause of the slimmed down monarchy
lacey added palace sources have also let
it be known that the plan of depicting
the direct line of royal succession was
enthusiastically supported by prince
william which might be seen as sending
his younger brother a message according
to bbc
is third in line to the british throne
right behind his grandfather charles and
father william
the 2019 photo showing prince george
with queen elizabeth prince charles and
prince william serves as a reminder of
the british royal family's direct line
of succession as author robert lacy
succinctly put it the photo was meant to
show quote the current monarch with
three future monarchs all the living
errors and not a suggestion of a spare
prince harry often referred to as the
spare due to his original position
behind prince william in line for the
throne is essentially snubbed through
this indirect commentary
prior to prince william's marriage and
the birth of their three children harry
was set to inherit the throne after his
older brother now harry is currently
sixth in line with his two children
occupying the seventh and eighth spaces
in the british line of succession with
harry and his wife stepping down as
senior members of the royal family the
pair and their children feel even
further removed from the line of
succession apparently prince charles
wants to keep it this way charles
continues to lay plans for the future of
the monarchy even though his reign won't
begin until the death of his mother
according to insider prince charles
wants to move forward with a sole focus
placed on the most important senior
royals for financial purposes and to
better manage the royal family's
publicity
following harry and megan's departure
from the british royal family prince
charles has made it known that he'd like
to focus solely on the direct line of
succession moving forward according to
kinsey scofield via insider i think
charles will try to draw attention to
himself camilla and the cambridge family
as the future of the monarchy
prince william and kate middleton's
three children prince george princess
charlotte and prince louis are third
fourth and fifth in the line for the
throne and currently hold hrh status the
hrh title standing for his royal
highness or her royal highness is deeply
important to the british royal family
which is why it's even more telling that
harry and megan's children archie and
lillabet do not currently hold hrh
status as scofield explained to insider
the decision to not bestow the hrh
status upon prince harry's children may
be inspired by the king of sweden
king carl gustav stripped almost all of
his grandchildren of their hrh titles in
2019 except for the direct heir to the
throne and the spare since prince
charles wants to move forward with his
quote slimmed down monarchy moving
forward he may choose to keep the hrh
title solely within the cambridge family
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