It puzzles me though that this decision weren’t made when Madeleine had her first child. To let all the grandchildren be born as royal highnesses, receiving a dukedom etc. - and then change it after a few years.
However, I’m glad it was done now instead of leaving the “cleaning-up-process” to a future Queen Victoria - so much easier for the King when it his children and grandchildren that is the subject of the decision.
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