The Royal Family's official titles date back centuries, with monarchs handing down honours and dukedoms for generations.
While both Prince George and Prince Louis would be eligible to hold key royal titles in the future, their sister Princess Charlotte is also in line to hold one which is currently associated with the hardest working member of the Firm.
As she will one day be the eldest daughter of the sovereign when Prince William succeeds, Princess Charlotte could be styled as The Princess Royal – the current title of Princess Anne.
However, a royal expert has questioned whether The Prince and Princess of Wales' daughter would ever use an official style if the Royal Family continues to modernise as much as it has been doing in recent months.
After debates over whether Princess Charlotte could one day be styled as The Duchess of Edinburgh in her own right, the title that would be more in-keeping with tradition is The Princess Royal title but former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond has asked whether it will be used at all.
Speaking exclusively to OK!, Jennie said: "I think we will be in a very modern era when the time comes. I question whether Charlotte will want to be burdened with more titles. She might be a working woman by then. Things could change so much in in the next in the next generation.
"The natural option it would seem to me is that she might become Princess Royal. That's the much more traditional route that the eldest daughter becomes Princess Royal so if I was going to put money on it, it would probably be that.
"But I also think that she might just feel she wants to remain as just Princess Charlotte. We've got William and Catherine who quite often tell the public to call them by their first names, so maybe their daughter will follow suit. Perhaps Charlotte will not even use the Princess title by the time she's grown up and definitely won't want to be burdened with more titles."
The Princess Royal is typically the eldest daughter of the monarch and it works in much the same way as the Prince of Wales title for both senior and high-ranking members of the Royal Family.
There have only been seven Princess Royals, the first of whom was Princess Mary, the eldest daughter of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. Following Princess Mary, the other Princess Royals include Princess Louisa Maria (daughter of King James II and VII), Princess Anne (King George II), Princess Charlotte (King George III), Princess Victoria (Queen Victoria), Princess Louise (King Edward VII), Princess Mary (King George V) and Princess Anne (Queen Elizabeth II).
While the rights of primogeniture do come into play, the inheritance of the title is not guaranteed if the previous holder is still alive. When King George V died, his daughter Mary was still the Princess Royal, meaning that when King George VI came to the throne his daughter Princess Elizabeth could not inherit the title even though she would have been eligible to hold it.
Unlike other styles, when the Princess Royal dies the title is not automatically inherited by her eldest daughter, it instead goes back to the monarch to bestow it upon their own daughter, if they have one.
As King Charles has no daughters, it is likely the Princess Royal title will be held in suspension once Princess Anne passes away, but will be re-granted to Princess Charlotte once her father becomes king.
But Charlotte isn't the only one of the Wales children who will see a major title change in their future. When Prince William is on the throne, Prince George will be eligible to become The Prince of Wales – making him the 28th incumbent.
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