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Sussexes below Edward and Sophie on the Royal website

By Jonathan Bucks

PRINCE HARRY and Meghan Markle have been demoted on the official Royal Family website since quitting their senior roles and moving to America.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now listed below Prince Edward and Sophie Wessex, as well as the Princess Royal and the Duke of York.

The Queen has been given more prominence on the web page while the Prince of Wales’s growing role as an active heir preparing t o ascend to t he throne is reflected in his own promotion online. The Princess

Royal has been moved up five places to sit below the Duchess of Cambridge on the website page. Prince and Princess Michael of Kent were added to the bottom, beneath the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.

Despite the reshuffle, the website still claims the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be ‘balancing their time’ between the UK and the US. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said it had no comment ‘other than that we refresh the website regularly’. Meanwhile, Prince Edward and his wife have jokingly dismissed the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey by a s ki ng: ‘Oprah who? What interview?’

In their first major interview since they wed in 1999, they reflected on the death of Prince Philip, with Edward, 57, describing how Covid restrictions created an ‘extremely odd’ funeral.

Sophie told The Daily Telegraph that their children, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn, ‘ still keep expecting to see Grandpa arrive in his green Land Rover’.

Asked if they had watched the Oprah Winfrey interview in March, Sophie jokingly said: ‘What interview?’ Edward added mischievously: ‘Oprah who?’

Sophie, 56, also revealed that she enjoyed a ‘ lengthy chat’ with Harry after Philip’s funeral in April. ‘We are still a family no matter what happens, we always will be,’ she said.

The couple said they were ‘flattered’ to be given a more prominent role since Harry and Meghan’s move to California.

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