Prince Harry ‘asked Princess Diana’s brother whether he could change his surname from Mountbatten-Windsor to Spencer’

Had the Duke gone ahead with his plan to take on the Spencer name, he would have lost Mountbatten-Windsor, the name currently used by the children he shares with Meghan Markle – Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. The name was created by Queen Elizabeth II, who on 8 February 1960 decreed that her descendants should bear a surname that references both the House of Windsor and the name of her husband, Prince Philip, who replaced his ‘Prince of Greece and Denmark’ title with the surname…