What Do You Think We Should Be Calling Meghan Markle “Meghan Sussex” Now? All About Her Last Name…. Check In

According to her new Netflix lifestyle series, yes.

The world knows her by her maiden name, Meghan Markle—but it seems Meghan wants us to call her “Meghan Sussex” now.

That’s what she told Mindy Kaling in an episode of her eight-part Netflix series With Love, Meghan, which began streaming on the platform on March 4. At one point, Kaling refers to Meghan as “Meghan Markle,” to which Meghan points out, “It’s so funny that you keep saying Meghan Markle. You know I’m Sussex now.”

Queen Elizabeth gave Prince Harry and Meghan the Duke and Duchess of Sussex titles on their May 19, 2018 wedding day, much like she’d given Prince William and Kate Middleton the titles of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they married on April 29, 2011. (The two have since become the Prince and Princess of Wales.) When Harry and Meghan’s kids Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet were born in 2019 and 2021, respectively, they were previously known as “Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor” and “Miss Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor,” the familial surname of the British royal family

However, after Queen Elizabeth’s death on September 8, 2022 and King Charles taking over the throne, they were given the titles of “Prince” and “Princess” because their grandfather was now the monarch, per the 1917 Letters Patent issued by King George V. Harry and Meghan first publicly used these titles in March 2023 upon the occasion of Lilibet’s christening.

In a new interview with People, Meghan opened up about the importance of the Sussex surname, telling the publication, “I think as the kids get older, they’re so excited about, ‘Oh my gosh, Mama and Papa, how did you meet?’ I think that will come with time as they get older, but for right now a huge part of our love story is that we share the name Sussex.”

“It’s our shared name as a family, and I guess I hadn’t recognized how meaningful that would be to me until we had children,” she added. “I love that that is something that Archie, Lili, H, and I all have together. It means a lot to me.”