Ish
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Could Lady Louise,Viscount Serven, Zara, and Peter get their titles back?
Zara and Peter never held titles, so there isn't anything for them to get back. It is believed that when Anne and Mark married Mark was offered but turned down a title, then when Peter was born a title was offered and refused again - but at no point was any title created.
Louise and James is a more complicated situation. Some argue that they both hold royal titles, but don't use them similar to the situation with Camilla and the Princess of Wales titles. Others believe that they don't hold them and never did, despite having been eligible for them. The reasoning here is that the Queen didn't issue LPs on the matter, nor did Parliament strip them of titles, but rather the Queen made it known that it was her will that the children of the Earl and Countess of Wessex would be styled as the children of an Earl instead of as the grandchildren of a monarch.
I think there's enough of a grey-zone there that if for some reason they decided to be HRH Princess Louise of Wessex and/or HRH Prince James of Wessex they could probably do so fairly easily. But there's likely to be a public backlash if they do, and being styled as royals instead of as children of an Earl comes with an added expectation of behaviour and media scrutiny - consider the way Peter and Zara are able to live their lives in comparison to Beatrice and Eugenie.