Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex's Birth Chart

The Moon holds ranks one and three, for its place at the IC and its exaltation in Taurus, with Saturn's isolation between. Traditionally, three of the four dignities on the list favor their planets; Jupiter's fall, in the rising sign, counts against it.

The Home Office issued the notice from Queen Anne's Gate (Gazette issue 49869, page 12601). No rival time surfaced, though period newspapers, astrology collections and Astro-Databank's entry were not compared.

On Summer Time London ran an hour ahead of Greenwich; a chart wrongly cast with 4:20 PM as Greenwich time still keeps Capricorn, 10 seconds before Aquarius. If "4.20" was rounded, some houses could shift: Mercury drops back into the 7th house if the true minute was 3 minutes later; Venus reaches the 9th house and Saturn the 10th house with births 5 minutes and 17 minutes earlier.

Only the Moon is below the horizon, and its hold on the angle is time-bound: 3 minutes earlier, its gap to the IC would exceed the five degrees the ranking counts; 18 minutes later, the IC would overtake it, leaving it in the 3rd house.

Mars, 16°57′ Sagittarius, reaches 25°04′ of south declination, 1°37′ beyond the Sun's extreme of 23°26′. Declination work calls that out of bounds, a condition the sample gives Mars in about one chart in 6; Jupiter crosses the same line by a mere 0°03′. Retrograde motion is absent from Mercury through Pluto, which about one chart in 4 can also claim.

Saturn, 12°50′ Scorpio, has not one major aspect to a planet, an isolation the simulated sample shows in about one chart in 15. It does reach the angles, 4°12′ short of the Midheaven and sextile the Ascendant at 1°26′. Writers on unaspected planets describe one as working on its own terms, and here it rules the Ascendant. Venus sextile Mars, 0°45′ from exact, is the closest pairing.

Set the Moon aside and the remaining planets fit within 118°21′, Mercury at one rim and Jupiter at the other, the two in trine. The Moon hangs alone past a 137°46′ void, the layout Marc Edmund Jones named the bucket, the Moon its handle. Of twelve counted points, earth claims five and mutable signs five, while air holds only Venus.

With the Sun 25°23′ up, this is a day chart: the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn belong to its sect, the Moon, Venus and Mars to the other. Mercury, ruling and exalted in Virgo, scores 100, the table's highest; the sample puts Mercury in one of its two signs in about one chart in 6. The Moon follows, with an exaltation the sample shows in about one chart in 12, then Venus, whose own signs, Taurus and Libra, hold it in about one chart in 7.

In traditional terms Jupiter's fall in Capricorn, shared by about one chart in 10, has mitigations: it is in sect, and at 7°50′ from the Ascendant the strength table counts it angular, though Placidus files it in the 12th house. Combustion touches nothing here: Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, stands 17°44′ off.

Charles III, also timed by a London Gazette Extraordinary, ranks nearest: his Moon is in Taurus too, and his Venus lies near this one in Libra. Narendra Modi ties on score, his Sun almost on the same degree of Virgo. Bongbong Marcos shares the Virgo Sun, Freddie Mercury a nearby Mercury. No roster row shares the birth date.

Subtract Lahiri's ayanamsa, 23°38′, and the Sun drops to 29°18′ Leo, the sign's last degree, the Moon to 27°41′ Aries and the Ascendant into Sagittarius. Dignities trade hands: Jupiter gains its own Sagittarius and Saturn its Libra exaltation, while Venus sinks into Virgo, its fall.

Saturn came back to its natal 12°50′ of Scorpio on October 25, 2013, when Prince Harry was 29, in one crossing. Jupiter has completed three cycles, returning on January 19, 1996, January 3, 2008 and December 18, 2019.

The Gazette's 4.20, moved back an hour to UTC and set at St Mary's Hospital, feeds precise astronomical calculations (tropical signs, Placidus cusps). Rates pit this chart against simulated 1980s births spread across the decade, with cities favored by the square root of their size; the Moon's rate admits any angle, not just the IC.