Meghan Markle shamelessly uses royal title to confirm her 'real name'

Meghan Markle has shamelessly used her royal title to finally confirm her "real name" in a newly-released interview. In an interview with Emily Chang, which was released on the same day as Netflix unveiled the second series of her show, With Love, Meghan, Meghan was asked whether 'Sussex' is her real name - just months after a confusion on the first series of her show.

During the first series of With Love, Meghan, which was released in March, the 44-year-old made the decision to correct her friend, actress Mindy Kaling, after she called her Meghan Markle. In the shock moment, Meghan told Mindy, "You know I'm Sussex now."

Speaking to Emily, Meghan said: "Well, when I got married, I changed my name. But it is a complicated one for people to understand because a last name is not typical in that construct."

After being asked whether Sussex is her "real name", she confirmed: "It's not, but it's used loosely or roughly rather.

"It sounds so silly to say and I get it cos I'm American and then I went there and I started to understand, then you come back and as an American, you go 'I'm so confused'."

As she continued, Meghan then shamefully used her royal title - despite having not been a working member of the Royal Family for five years.

She said: "It's a dukedom - and that's the truth of it. But at the end of the day, yes, my legal name is Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, but Sussex works for us as our family name and it is the name we share with our children. But yes, since we've been married that's what I've been called."

King Charles's second cousin Lord Ivar Mountbatten previously hit out at Meghan's comments about her surname, telling Town & Country magazine that Meghan's real surname would be Mountbatten-Windsor.

He explained: "It's interesting because she's completely incorrect. Her family name is not Sussex, her family name is Mountbatten-Windsor."

As well as revealing that Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet are also 'Mountbatten-Windsor', he then added: "So, they are the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, but actually he's Harry Mountbatten-Windsor and she would be Meghan Mountbatten-Windsor.