Prince Harry, Meghan Markle 'Hijacking' Sussex By Using County Name In New 'Misleading' Website, Royal Pundit Claims
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle should change the domain of their new website, according to a royal pundit.
British-Jamaican author and socialite Lady Colin Campbell weighed in on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's recent major rebranding. The royal couple launched a new website inspired by their royal title, Sussex.com.
However, the "Meghan and Harry: The Real Story" author seemingly disapproved of it because she found it "misleading." Campbell admitted that she was "bemused" by the Sussexes "hijacking of the county's name for their website."
"[It] is not only an imposition to the people of Sussex but is also an impertinence, in that their website has nothing to do with the county, but the domain name gives the misleading impression that it does," Campbell, who lives in a castle in Goring, West Sussex, told Daily Mail.
"The geographic assignation of their title might share a name with the county, but they are not representatives of the county, nor do many of its residents share their values."
Campbell shared a domain name she believed was more appropriate for the royal couple's website.
"In fact, many deplore what they represent, and it would surely have been more appropriate for them to have had a domain name along the lines of dukeandduchessofsussex.com," she continued.
However, Campbell owns the domain. She registered and acquired the domain names dukeandduchessofsussex.co.uk and officialsussex.com. She's willing to give them to Prince Harry and Markle if they would stop using Sussex.com.
The Sussexes received an intense backlash when they launched their new website. Some netizens felt they were failures and returned to their royal roots by using their title as the domain name for their website because their efforts to be financially independent didn't work four years after they quit their duties.
"Imagine, saying, you want to live an independent life [then] start a website that is not royal based and failing. Now imagine having to admit defeat [and] going back to using your royal titles and coat of arms because the deals have dried up. I can't stop laughing at them!" wrote one critic who was among those who mocked the royal couple for the move. "They are the equivalent of a fake Prada."
Some insiders also claimed the use of "Sussex" for their website was a "betrayal of their agreement" with Queen Elizabeth "if not in letter, certainly in spirit" because they reportedly assured the late monarch that they would not use their royal status for commercial gain.
