That’s not true.
Just to give one example, The Guardian (leftist, republican) had an article about this very thing last year Here’s a taste :
I don’t think anyone should be going around calling themselves Duke or Duchess in 2023. Unless they are a stripper or a dog
I won’t link the full article because we’re not supposed to post about it on here. But I’d be very surprised if you could find anyone at The Guardian who harps on about anything to do with the rf.
There’s plenty of reasoned & reasonable comment out there about what the issue is. Much of it from the non harpers on brigade. Not to mention posts on trf before such discussion was made against the rules.
Fair enough.
At the end of the day, however, Prince Harry or the Duke of Sussex or Henry Mountbatten-Windsor was born special. He's admired or criticized for things he's done as an adult, but none of those things made him special in the first place. There are many people who have done the things that he's done with no fanfare. As soon as he was born to the future king of the United Kingdom, Harry was born special.
Harry was born into a society that places one family above all others due to the actions of their ancestors and was lucky enough to be born into that family. Just being born into that family made him revered, scrutinized, desired for different reasons, and influential.
Many have argued that being born into such privilege means that there's a greater responsibility to be the best person he can be to honor that privilege...but he never had to do anything to gain that privilege in the first place. He was literally born into it. He could have been a murderer or a drug trafficker and he would still be special because he's the son of a king, and the society he grew up in will not undermine the specialness of the one family on top for the sake of one person.
Harry will always be a prince. He will always be the son of a king. He will always be significant as long as the British Royal Family is still an institution that places value on those born within it. And people will forever want to associate with Harry regardless of his relationship with the BRF.
Luckily, Prince Harry is using his platform to bring more eyes and hopefully support to mental health in children and cyberbullying, two very important causes that will hopefully lead to discovering ways to interact with the internet, as ubiquitous as it is, in healthier ways.