Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's children will probably have a different last name than the rest of the royal family

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• Members of the British royal family don't regularly use last names, but they do have a few to choose from in situations that require them.
• For example, as the son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George uses Prince William and Kate Middleton's dukedom, Cambridge, as his last name at school.
• Similarly, Prince William and Prince Harry — whose father, Charles, is the Prince of Wales — went by William Wales and Harry Wales, respectively, when they served in the military.
• If Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, continue this tradition, their children will take on the surname, Sussex.
• Harry and Markle's kids could also go by the hyphenated last name, Mountbatten-Windsor — which, technically, is the official surname for all descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.

If Prince Harry and Meghan Markle decide to have children one day, it's likely their kids will go by a different surname than the rest of the British royal family.

While royals don't regularly use last names — they're easily recognizable without one — they do have a few to choose from in situations that require them, like when they're in school or in the military.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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