Why Meghan Markle Isn't Attending The Royal Coronation

King Charles III and Queen Camilla's upcoming coronation is a full household affair, but not each of the members person royal titles.

Take Charles' nephew Peter Phillips and niece Zara Tindall for example. While their mother Princess Anne—the lone girl of the precocious Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip—has had a royal rubric attached to her sanction since birth, the brother-sister duo were not fixed 1 erstwhile they were calved successful 1977 and 1981, respectively.

Why? According to Anne, who shares her kids with her archetypal husband Mark Phillips, it was truthful that she could springiness them a simpler childhood.

"I deliberation it was astir apt easier for them, and I deliberation astir radical would reason that determination are downsides to having titles," she told Vanity Fair successful 2020. "So I deliberation that was astir apt the close happening to do."

The unconventional decision led Peter, 45, and Zara, 41, to person fulfilling careers extracurricular of royal duties.

"Her begetter had been a palmy equestrian and won a batch much medals [than I] truthful you bash somewhat wonderment if having 2 parents who've been successful that concern helped," Anne remarked successful her Vanity Fair interview. "Zara was ever a earthy and it was truly a question of whether she felt that was thing she truly wanted to do, and she did and she was precise thorough and applied herself to it."

The royal added of Zara's prime successful career, "She was rather rightly precise successful."

Peter's 2 daughters Savannah, 12 and Isla, 11—who helium shares with and his ex-wife Autumn Kelly—do not clasp royal titles since helium was not fixed one. The situation is the aforesaid for Zara and her hubby Mike Tindall's kids: Mia, 9, Lena, 4, and Lucas, 2.

But contempt lacking royal titles, Peter and Zara are inactive technically in the enactment to the British throne due to their parentage.

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