Meghan Markle by any other name would still be Meghan.

For Americans, the British royal family’s nomenclature is an ongoing head scratcher. With dukedoms, titles and inheritances all playing a factor, it can be hard to understand the naming conventions . Allow Meghan—whose marriage to Prince Harry brought her into the fold—to explain.

“When I got married I changed my name,” she told Emily Chang during a recent sit down for Bloomberg shared August 26 . “But it's a complicated one for people to understand because a last name is not typical in that construct.”

In fact, when it comes to the moniker of “Sussex,” while Meghan conceded that the name can be used “loosely” when thinking of a last name, in reality, “It’s a dukedom. That’s the truth of it. My legal name is Meghan Duche

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