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Members of the Royal Family often carry out official duties in the UK and overseas where the Monarch cannot be present in person, such as State funerals or national festivities, or undertake visits to strengthen Britain's diplomatic and economic relations.

The House of Windsor came into being in 1917, when the name was adopted as the British Royal Family's official name by a proclamation of King George V, replacing the historic name of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

As the second child of King Charles III and the late Princess Diana, Prince Harry is fifth in line for the throne after his brother, nephews and niece. His wife, Meghan Markle, is not in line for the throne - much like the duch*ess of Cambridge - but their two children are.

The Royal Family name of Windsor was confirmed by The Queen after her accession in 1952.

Look no further: Prince William's multi-million dollar salary has just been revealed. According to the Duchy of Cornwall estate's 2023 annual report, Prince William received a private income of nearly £6 million this year—which converts to more than $7.5 million.

The Sovereign Grant is paid annually to the monarch by the Treasury to fund the monarch's official duties, replacing the system of funding the Royal Household by a mixture of civil list payments and grants-in-aid.

But now that they have two children, it's thought that they wanted a website that reflected the entire family and their projects. The Times of London reported they decided on Sussex because over the past year they all adopted it as a last name—despite the children using Mountbatten-Windsor for years.

Due to being royal, Harry doesn't have a last name like us mere mortals do. In fact, the official name listed on his son Archie's birth certificate is His Royal Highness Henry Charles Albert David Duke of Sussex. (Side note: Imagine your occupation being “Prince of the United Kingdom.”)

Harry remains a prince and is fifth in line to the throne. The couple kept their Duke and duch*ess of Sussex titles, but are no longer addressed as his or her royal highness (HRH).

As it stands, Prince William is the current heir to the throne, followed by his son Prince George, and so on – since the line of succession automatically changed when Charles became King following the passing of Queen Elizabeth.

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During his years at school and while working in the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and as an air ambulance pilot, he used the surname Wales thanks to his dad then being the Prince of Wales. William has also used the family surname, Mountbatten-Windsor, as created by the late Queen and husband Prince Phillip.

Though both men are also hereditary princes with HRH styling (Harry subsequently stopped using the HRH title), as students, and later in their military careers, both of them adopted the unofficial surname Wales, a nod to Charles's status as the Prince of Wales at the time.

Queen Elizabeth's days are routine inasmuch as she reads newspapers and government papers before all else and then official duties are planned months or even years in advance. She doesn't undertake overseas travel now or as many official visits, but she is busy all the time even on holiday.

The King moves to Buckingham Palace for the day's more formal business, such as meetings with key political, military, diplomatic and religious figures. Unless a royal engagement requires it, he skips lunch. If he is at one of the more rural royal residences, he'll go for a brisk walk.

If you mean do they get paid a wage for being members of the Royal family then the answer is no. There is no salary for being a Royal. Working Royals get financially compensated for the amount of time they spend annually carrying out duties on behalf of The Crown. This is paid by the Queen out of the Sovereign Grant.

It was 194 days in 2022, 176 days in 2021, 158 days in 2020, and 199 days in 2019. Crown Prince Haakon is still the member of the royal family with the most days worked with 160 days worked (i.e. a day where he had an event on the calendar or a day where he had an unannounced event that we had photos of).