The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will no longer use their HRH titles or formally represent the Queen, Buckingham Palace has announced as the Royal Family severed all official ties with the couple.

A seismic statement following days of frantic negotiations, revealed that the Sussexes' departure from public life would be much more dramatic than previously thought.

The couple will repay the £2.4million of taxpayer’s money used to refurbish Frogmore Cottage, their Windsor home, and will pay commercial rent on the property, which they will continue to use as their UK family base, it was confirmed after five days of tense negotiations.

As they will no longer be working members of the Royal Family, the Sussexes will not receive public funds for royal duties and the Duke has been forced to give up his much cherished official military appointments.

Aides revealed that the couple will spend the majority of their time in north America and will be free to earn their own money however they see fit.