Why ‘Chaotically Curated’ Royal Website Finally Updated Prince Harry’s Title, According to Expert
usmagazine.comThe royal family recently raised eyebrows by removing Prince Harry’s HRH title from its website nearly three years after he stepped down — but one royal expert thinks it’s not that serious.“Part of it — without throwing too much shade in the general direction of the royal website — is that it is chaotically curated,” Gareth Russell exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, August 10, noting that the site is maintained by staff, not actual royals. “The royals no more update the website than the president of the U.S.
would update the presidential website.”Russell — whose new book, The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court, hits shelves on December 5 — went on to note that the royal website includes “thousands of thousands of pages,” so it can be hard to keep track of which ones need updating.“There are still some areas where Queen Elizabeth II is referred to in the present tense.
So, they really need to get that dealt with,” Russell told Us. “I think it’s simply the fact that they’re catching up bit by bit and trying to update this as they go.
I don’t think it’s necessarily a slight to Prince Harry. I don’t think at the moment either the Sussexes or Buckingham Palace seem to be interested in slinging arrows or trading insults.”Harry’s page on the website was altered earlier this month shortly after U.K.
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