On the 10th March 2019 Her Majesty The Queen has conferred the Earldom of Forfar on His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex KG GCVO on the occasion of his 55th Birthday. Buckingham Palace has said that His Royal Highness will only be styled and addressed as the Earl of Forfar when visiting Scotland and will carry on being styled as the Earl of Wessex elsewhere.
The Letters Patent for the new Earldom state that only the heir’s male of His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex’s body lawfully begotten shall inherit the Earldom, making the Earl of Wessex’s only son James, Viscount Severn the only heir to the title.
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