I WAS QUITE shocked to read that more than 3,000 people in the Brighton and Hove area have decided they don’t like the fact the Queen has bestowed the titles of Duke and Duchess of Sussex on Prince Harry and his wife respectively.

They don’t want these two harmless individuals to be addressed by their titles; not to be invited to the area and if they should visit they are to be afforded no more or less civility than any other member of the public.

How extraordinary and, to me, nonsensical that a petition has been started to bring them down to the status of what? By signing, you have already afforded them the attention you don’t want them to have.

Harry and Megan, whether you like it or not, are members of the Royal Family. You don’t come more elite than that and you have all proved you are not.

It doesn’t matter what you call them, they are who they are and deserve the same respect as any other member of the Royal Family.

Why on Earth can people not allow these two young, fun living individuals to get on with their lives.

Incidentally if you are intent on stripping titles I can think of one disgraced member who does deserve to be a non HRH.

Eline Armstrong, Address supplied