Looking at the sticky for the "Future of The DOE Title" I think this belongs here:
Allegedly Prince Charles isn't sure if he wants Prince Edward to be recreated DOE, despite the announcement at their wedding and Edward and Sophie recently talking about how Philip personally asked them to take it on. Not to mention his work with the DOE Awards.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-but-his-brother-is-not-on-his-side-77v25z3b0
https://archive.ph/0XuTJ
Roya Nikkhah obviously has her sources but I hope this isn't true and there's no real reason for it not to be given since it was Prince Philip's wish for one of his sons to carry it on. I wonder if it is true then it's an emotional reaction to his father's death.
Allegedly Prince Charles isn't sure if he wants Prince Edward to be recreated DOE, despite the announcement at their wedding and Edward and Sophie recently talking about how Philip personally asked them to take it on. Not to mention his work with the DOE Awards.
For more than 20 years, the Earl of Wessex has been expecting to inherit his father’s title and become the Duke of Edinburgh one day. But his eldest brother is not so set on the idea, it has emerged.
The Prince of Wales, who holds his late father’s title, is understood to be reluctant to hand it over to Prince Edward, 57, the only of the Queen’s three sons not to hold a dukedom.
In 1999, when Edward married Sophie Rhys-Jones, the Queen gave him the earldom of Wessex, a title he chose.
On their wedding day, Buckingham Palace announced in a statement: “The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales have also agreed that the Prince Edward should be given the Dukedom of Edinburgh in due course, when the present title held now by Prince Philip eventually reverts to the Crown.”
But those close to Prince Charles, 72, say his thinking has since shifted, and he is reassessing his plans for the future. A source who knows Charles, said: “The prince is the Duke of Edinburgh as it stands, and it is up to him what happens to the title. It will not go to Edward.” Another source close to the prince, said: “Edinburgh won’t go to them [the Wessexes] as far as the prince is concerned.”
Philip’s title passed to his eldest son upon his death in April, and will remain with Charles until his accession, when it will merge with the Crown. It will then be Charles’s decision whether to bestow it on Edward, another member of his family, or to leave it in abeyance.......
Edward is thought to be aware that his hope of becoming the next Duke of Edinburgh is not a done deal. In a television interview last month to mark what would have been Philip’s 100th birthday, he was asked: “You will be the next Duke of Edinburgh, when the Prince of Wales becomes king, that is quite something to take on?”
Edward replied: “It was fine in theory, ages ago when it was sort of a pipe dream of my father’s . . . and of course it will depend on whether or not the Prince of Wales, when he becomes king, whether he’ll do that, so we’ll wait and see. So yes, it will be quite a challenge taking that on.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-but-his-brother-is-not-on-his-side-77v25z3b0
https://archive.ph/0XuTJ
Roya Nikkhah obviously has her sources but I hope this isn't true and there's no real reason for it not to be given since it was Prince Philip's wish for one of his sons to carry it on. I wonder if it is true then it's an emotional reaction to his father's death.