Like Meghan Markle, eight in 10 women take their husband's surname after marriage. But experts advise working women to proceed with caution—or risk a personal branding reset and potential discrimination.

Meghan Markle has sparked a debate about her surname in her new Netflix show; With Love, Meghan. The Duchess of Sussex, who relocated to California with Prince Harry five years ago, has long abandoned her maiden name Markle, yet it is still widely used to refer to her.

Officially, Meghan Markle’s surname became the unwieldy Mountbatten-Windsor when she married Prince Harry in 2018, but she isn’t wrong in wanting to use Sussex as her last name instead, after her husband’s dukedom,

A British aristocrat and a member of the extended royal family has weighed in on the debate around Meghan Markle’s last name, saying “Sussex” is only a title.

Meghan Markle shared a revelation earlier this month, when she revealed her last name is actually "Sussex" following her marriage to Prince Harry. But Traitors' contestant Lord Ivar Mountbatten, who is the second cousin of King Charles,