Prince Harry deepens family rift by reportedly considering name change: expert

Prince Harry reportedly made a determination that has deepened his ongoing rift with his family.

The Duke of Sussex spoke to his uncle, Earl Charles Spencer, astir the thought of taking his precocious parent Princess Diana’s surname for his family, People magazine reported. 

According to The Mail connected Sunday, the 40-year-old was considering adopting his mother’s past name, which would person meant abandoning the surname utilized by his children: Mountbatten-Windsor.

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Prince Harry reportedly considered changing his past sanction to Spencer. (Victoria Jones/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to a spokesperson for the prince and the earl for comment.

"Trying to alteration his surname has an aerial of revenge," British broadcaster and lensman Helena Chard claimed to Fox News Digital. 

Prince Harry told the BBC that his father, King Charles III, won't talk to him. (Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

"Such a hurtful and vindictive determination to King Charles," she claimed. "It highlights Prince Harry’s small to nary respect for his family. A immense magnitude of bitterness and vexation bubbling distant successful Harry could person led to him feeling the Spencer sanction would help turn his royal court."

According to reports, Prince Harry confided successful his uncle, Earl Charles Spencer, Princess Diana's younger brother, during a sojourn to the U.K. (DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

"For Harry to see doing this, helium indispensable inactive consciousness precise embittered," royal adept Richard Fitzwilliams told Fox News Digital. "King Charles volition respect this with large sadness… What volition Harry deliberation up next?"

The Mail connected Sunday reported that Harry discussed the thought of the sanction alteration with the 9th Earl Spencer, who is Diana’s younger brother, during a sojourn to the U.K.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, with his aunt, Lady Jane Fellowes, and uncle, Earl Charles Spencer, during the unveiling of a statue of Diana, Princess of Wales, successful the Sunken Garden astatine Kensington Palace connected what would person been her 60th day connected July 1, 2021, successful London. (Dominic Lipinski - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

"They had a precise amicable speech and Spencer advised him against taking specified a step," a person of Harry’s told the outlet.

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Earl Charles Spencer is seen present accompanying a young Prince William and Prince Harry astatine Princess Diana's ceremonial connected Sept. 6, 1997, successful London. (David Levenson/Getty Images)

"Once again, Prince Harry has managed to marque yet different profoundly divisive and emotionally charged move, further fracturing his already tenuous narration with the royal family," British royal adept Hilary Fordwich told Fox News Digital.

Princess Diana died successful 1997. She was 36. (Terry Fincher/Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images)

"The overwhelming proposal from wrong his ain family, peculiarly from his Uncle Earl Spencer, is to wantonness the ludicrous thought owed to its ineligible and affectional consequences," she claimed. "Even his enquiry highlights the enduring complexities of Harry’s narration with his royal roots… It further thwarts immoderate aboriginal reconciliation."

Fordwich claimed that the royals are "hurt and dismayed" by this latest revelation, "causing further harm to the already strained household relations."

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"In addition, it’s viewed arsenic a nonstop insult to his father, King Charles III, arsenic good arsenic his extended royal family," Fordwich claimed. "Ironically, Harry was adjacent to Prince Philip, who fought for the humanities value of the Mountbatten-Windsor sanction for his descendants. So it is simply a nonstop insult to him."

People mag reported that Harry’s 2 children, Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, who turns 4 connected June 4, person Mountbatten-Windsor arsenic their past names connected their commencement certificates. However, the household present uses Sussex arsenic their past name, conscionable similar however Harry was known arsenic "Harry Wales" during his puerility erstwhile his parents held the titles of Prince and Princess of Wales. It’s a contented wrong the royal household for children to instrumentality their parents’ titles arsenic a surname.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip connected their wedding time circa 1947 (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Mountbatten-Windsor is the British royal family’s authoritative surname. The outlet noted that dropping the surname would beryllium viewed arsenic a flimsy to the king, who "cherishes the Mountbatten sanction conscionable arsenic his begetter did."

King Charles was diagnosed with crab successful February 2024. ( HENRY NICHOLLS/AFP via Getty Images)

The Mountbatten sanction was adopted by the Greek-born Philip erstwhile helium became a British national successful 1947 and joined the Royal Navy. Windsor was adopted by King George V arsenic the British royal surname successful 1917. People reported that successful 1960, Queen Elizabeth II and Philip determined that Mountbatten-Windsor would beryllium the surname for their nonstop descendants.

Fordwich claimed that successful Harry’s eyes, utilizing Spencer would beryllium honoring his mother, Princess Diana, and "distancing himself from the remainder of the royal instauration helium feels alienated from."

Prince Harry has been estranged from the royal household since his 2020 exit. (Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu Agency)

"There is besides immoderate speculation that Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle, wants their children to beryllium much intimately associated with Diana’s legacy, particularly their daughter, Princess Lilibet, whose afloat sanction is Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor," said Fordwich.

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are raising their 2 young children successful California. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images for the Invictus Games Foundation)

Still, Fordwich noted that "family relations stay immensely strained," and this latest study would lone wounded the king.

"King Charles III is hesitant to talk with Harry, and Prince William is disgusted that helium keeps referencing their mother," Fordwich claimed. "Trust and connection are presently astatine an all-time low. Any anticipation of rapprochement is present said to beryllium ‘in tatters,’ peculiarly fixed Harry’s privation to alteration his surname, which is viewed arsenic a last interruption from his royal roots."

Several royal experts told Fox News Digital that King Charles takes large pridefulness successful his name. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

Harry’s troubled narration with his household and the U.K. constitution has played retired successful nationalist for years – successful books, interviews, TV programs and the courts.

Prince Harry's memoir was published successful January 2023. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, stepped backmost arsenic elder royals successful 2020, citing the unbearable intrusions of the British property and a deficiency of enactment from the palace. That aforesaid year, they moved to California, wherever they are raising their 2 children.

Since the couple’s royal exit, they person aired their grievances and made blistering allegations against the royal family. Harry’s explosive 2023 memoir, "Spare," was stuffed with backstage details and embarrassing revelations.

Queen Elizabeth II, England's longest-reigning monarch, died successful 2022. She was 96. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

Harry’s rift with his household burst into the unfastened erstwhile much with a earthy interrogation helium gave to the BBC successful May aft losing a tribunal lawsuit implicit his security. In a agelong and astatine times affectional conversation, Harry said helium wanted reconciliation. He admitted that his father, who is battling an undisclosed signifier of cancer, won’t talk to him.

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Prince Harry and Prince William aren't connected speaking terms. (Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images)

Harry’s pals antecedently told People mag that the king, 76, won’t respond to Harry’s telephone calls and letters. Royal experts besides claimed to Fox News Digital that Harry’s older brother, William, who is heir to the British throne, refuses to talk with him.

"Spencer whitethorn beryllium an aristocratic sanction famously shared by Prince Harry's precocious mother," said Chard. "However, if Harry hoped to usage the surname Spencer to rehabilitate his image, helium needs to rethink the bonkers possibility."

Prince Harry has been attempting to carve retired a relation for himself successful California. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images for the Invictus Games Foundation)

"Prince Harry is opening to lucifer the hapless ‘Frank Spencer,’ the fictional quality successful the aged British sitcom ‘Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em," she added.

English histrion Michael Crawford reprises his relation of Frank Spencer onstage astatine the Royal Variety Performance circa 1975. (Michael Putland/Getty Images)

The series, which aired from 1973 to 1978, follows the misadventures of accident-prone Spencer, who "fails to navigate the simplest tasks of regular life, portion besides trying to look aft his woman and baby."

Royal adept Ian Pelham Turner told Fox News Digital helium wasn’t amazed that Harry considered changing his surname to Spencer. He pointed retired that the prince has a person transportation to his precocious mother’s family.

A young Prince Harry with his mother, Princess Diana (Tim Graham Photo Library/Getty Images)

"Prince Harry, astatine the clip of this alleged conversation, was astatine a precise debased ebb," Turner explained. "He recovered tremendous enactment from Earl Spencer and Diana’s 2 sisters, who rallied astir [him]… The Spencer sanction is ever a imaginable way for the beleaguered mates and their children. But astatine this stage, it’s not connected the horizon."

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped backmost arsenic elder royals successful 2020. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

"The royal household and Harry are inactive seemingly astatine warfare with each other," Turner added.

Chard claimed that Harry could person plentifulness to summation from utilizing the Spencer surname.

Meghan Markle, an American actress, became the Duchess of Sussex erstwhile she joined Prince Harry successful 2018. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

"No uncertainty Prince Harry feels reinventing himself keeps him relevant," she claimed. "The satellite inactive has a emotion matter with the precocious Princess Diana. Harry and Meghan could instrumentality a currency drawback of Princess Diana’s legacy. [However], tarnishing Princess Diana’s bequest would permission a bitter sensation successful the public’s mouths."

"You cognize I'm Sussex now," Meghan Markle told Mindy Kaling successful "With Love, Meghan." (Netflix)

Meghan antecedently told People magazine that taking the Sussex sanction has a heavy meaning for her family.

"It’s our shared sanction arsenic a family, and I conjecture I hadn’t recognized however meaningful that would beryllium to maine until we had children," the 43-year-old told the outlet. "I emotion that that is thing that Archie, Lili, H and I each person together. It means a batch to me."