Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have apparently been demoted on the list of the royal family website.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex who left the royal family in January 2020 and moved to California used to appear just below Prince William, and Duchess Kate, but now they appear after Prince Edward, and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, Princess Anne, and Prince Andrew.

The Queen has been removed and is instead featured higher on the page.

The website has been down and undergone some updates and when it went live, Harry and Meghan have new placements and updated biographies.

“As announced in January, The Duke and Duchess have stepped back as senior members of The Royal Family,” Prince Harry’s biography reads. “They are balancing their time between the United Kingdom and North America, continuing to honor their duty to The Queen, the Commonwealth, and their patronages. Frogmore Cottage in the UK remains their family home.”

While Meghan reads:  “The Duchess will continue to support a number of charitable causes and organizations which reflect the issues with which she has long been associated including the arts, access to education, support for women, and animal welfare.”

Buckingham Palace told MailOnline that it had no comment “other than that we refresh the website regularly”.

The website does not certainly rank the royals, so it looks like Meghan and Harry were pushed down since they are not considered as “working” royals.

In February, Buckingham Palace confirmed that the couple would no longer attend appointments on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II. The palace statement said: “While all are saddened by their decision, the Duke and Duchess remain much-loved members of the family,”

 

Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, the Countess of Wessex took part in their first major interview since their marriage in 1999. The couple laughed over Harry and Meghan’s controversial Oprah interview as they insisted the royals remain a family “no matter what happens”.

It was also recently discovered that Sophie is one of four loyal, discreet, and “utterly trustworthy” women of the Queen’s inner circle who supports the Queen as she faces life without her beloved Prince Philip, who died on April 9, at the age of 99.

Anne, Princess Royal, was moved up five places below the Duchess of Cambridge on the website. While the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent were added to the bottom, just beneath the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.

Prince Harry was first seen in the UK at The Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral since he and his wife Meghan stepped down from their senior royal positions and moved to the US.

The Sussexes have previously ranted that they felt “pushed out” by the family following their decision to step down from their senior rank.
Sophie and her husband the Earl of Wessex, who married at Windsor Castle 22 years ago, said they were “flattered” to be taking on a more important part in a slimmed-down monarchy since Prince Harry and Meghan move to California.

In the Wessexes’ first public interview, the couple looked back on Prince Philip’s funeral with Prince Edward describing how coronavirus restrictions created an “extremely odd” ceremony and the particularly poignant moment “when everything stopped”.

“It was extraordinarily odd walking into St. George’s Chapel and finding the nave completely empty,” Prince Edward said. “It’s always difficult with these kinds of things because you’re in the middle of it, so you’ve got no idea what it necessarily looks like from the outside.”

“It became really poignant to be there because it was suddenly so very intimate.”

“We are still a family no matter what happens, we always will be,” Sophie explained.

Sophie also claimed in an interview with The Telegraph Magazine that she had a “lengthy chat” with Harry after the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral in April.

On the other hand, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, 61, was seen wearing a striped rugby shirt with royal logo as he went for an early morning horse ride in Windsor with a female groom.

He appeared in high spirits for the day out as he waved from the top of the horse.

Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams told MailOnline that the Duke of York was “trying to rehabilitate himself” and get back into the royal fold, despite his brother Prince Charles pushing plans for a slimmed-down monarchy.

But he must first answer FBI questions on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.