this would be the ideal solution in my humble opinion - no work, no trappings, no expectations - Freedom!Maybe they could put the Sussex title into abeyance, but leave the Earldom in place, and announce that Earl and Countess of You-Know-Where are their new titles.
Smeg would loathe that, but the Wessexes are precedent for Earl/Countess for a younger son.
And stops 'Princess Henry' swiftly morphing into 'Princess Smeg'.
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but then how would the Aldi and Lidl issue be addressed? Lady Lidl? Lord Aldi?
I do wonder if Hasnoballs knows what’s coming down the pipe - an absolute end to their association and titles by the king and so he’s currently scrabbling for anything he can to then claim they’ve abandoned him because he was right / because they lied to him / because he was mummy’s favourite etc? It would also explain the random and indecent haste at which Lidl was christened and the children’s titles announced I think?