As various people have tried to make clear, the US does not prohibit US citizens from holding heredirary titles except in very specific and limited circumstances. The fact that US official forms do not accommodate potential titles does not make them illegal or suggest anything on the part off the form- issuing authorities other than bureaucratic efficiency.
Australia allows hereditary titles and, indeed, some Australians have been ennobled. No Australian form provides for titles beyond (incidentally) knights and baronets (Sir), and the daughters and younger sons of peers (the Hon/Lord/Lady). This is because Sir, Hon, Lord or Lady can be written the the box where we mortals would write Dr, Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss. If US forms have a box for Dr, Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss. why could not Lord Freddy Windsor enter Lord where I would enter Dr?
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