When I first saw the headlines, I took it with a grain of salt: Over the weekend, The Mail on Sunday reported that Prince Harry spoke with his uncle, Charles Spencer, about the idea of dropping his royal last name of Mountbatten-Windsor in favor of using his late mother Princess Diana’s surname,

Prince Harry asked his uncle Charles Spencer about the idea of changing his family's last name, which would mean dropping the royal family's Mountbatten-Windsor surname, PEOPLE understands