Original sentence: However, when his parents married, the Queen, via a Buckingham Palace press release, announced that (in hopes of avoiding some of the burdens associated with royal titles) their children would be styled as the children of an Earl rather than as Princes or Princesses.Letters patent issued in 1917 (and still remaining in force today) assign a princely status and the style of Royal Highness to all male-line grandchildren of a monarch.The eldest son of an earl is customarily accorded one of his father's subsidiary titles by courtesy, thus James is named as Viscount Severn, and Court communications never refer to him in terms of a Prince of the United Kingdom, but simply as Viscount Severn.There are two opposing opinions as to whether or not James is "legally" a prince and HRH — some experts consider the Queen's press release to not have enough legal force to override the 1917 letters patent, whereas other experts contend that the Queen's will, however expressed, is law in matters of Royal titles and styles.Therefore, all else being equal, James would have been styled as His Royal Highness Prince James of Wessex.Viscount Severn (James Alexander Philip Theo Mountbatten-Windsor; born 17 December 2007) is the second child and only son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and the youngest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh
Edited sentence: However, when his parents married, it was announced that, in accordance with their wishes, their children would not be styled as princes or princesses with the style Royal Highness, but rather as the children of an earl.Legally: His Royal Highness Prince James of Wessex.Letters patent issued in 1917 (and still in force today) assign a princely status and the style of Royal Highness to all male-line grandchildren of a monarch.Prince James of Wessex (James Alexander Philip Theo; born 17 December 2007), commonly known by the style Viscount Severn, is the second child and only son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Sophie, Countess of Wessex, and the youngest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.The baby is thus entitled to all of these and, as such, would be referred to as His Royal Highness Prince James of Wessex.The eldest son of an earl is customarily accorded one of his father's subsidiary titles by courtesy, thus James is named as Viscount Severn, despite his legal status as a prince