During With Love, Meghan, she corrected Mindy Kaling after Kaling referred to her as Meghan Markle.
“You know it’s Sussex now,” Meghan said.
She later explained that sharing the name with Harry and their children had become deeply meaningful to her.
For a family that has spent years creating an identity separate from the traditional royal institution, the Sussex name has clearly taken on a personal significance.
The Decision to Leave Royal Life
To understand why these changes matter, it helps to look back at where the story began.
Harry and Meghan married in 2018.
Their wedding attracted enormous international attention, but life as working royals quickly brought intense scrutiny.
Every public appearance was photographed.
Their relationship with other members of the royal family was constantly analyzed.
The British media’s treatment of Meghan became a particularly controversial subject.
Then, in early 2020, Harry and Meghan announced that they would step back from their positions as senior working royals.
The decision shocked royal watchers around the world.
They eventually left Britain and settled in California, where they began building a different kind of life.
They wanted greater independence.
They wanted more control over their work.
And they wanted to raise their family away from the constant pressures that came with being senior members of the royal family.
