Queen Elizabeth felt Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had taken the "only thing she owned" in the years leading up to her death, a n...
Queen Elizabeth felt Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had taken the "only thing she owned" in the years leading up to her death, a new book claims.
Her Majesty, who passed away on September 8, 2022, made the comment after learning the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would be naming their second child Lilibet. The name was a moniker given to the Queen when she was a young child and was only used by her parents, her sister Princess Margaret, Prince Philip and a handful close friends.
And the Queen was reportedly not happy about the choice of name. According to the Daily Mail, she told royal aides: "I don't own the palaces, I don't own the paintings, the only thing I own is my name. And now they've taken that."
A member of the late monarch's staff said Her Majesty was "as angry as I'd ever seen her" when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex said they wouldn't have selected the name had she not given her blessing, the Daily Star previously reported. The Sussexes reportedly attempted to "co-opt" the Firm into "propping up" their version of events but were "rebuffed."
The revelation is the latest to emerge from the upcoming biography by Robert Hardman entitled 'Charles III: New King, New Court. The Inside Story'. It details how the king came to power following the Queen's death on September 8, 2022, aged 96.
Excerpts of the book have now been released by the Daily Mail ahead of its publication on Thursday (January 18). Another revealed the Royal Family were ready to give Harry a "piece of their mind" as Her Majesty lay on her deathbed.
Harry and Meghan were in the UK on a rare visit from Montecito when his dad called him to warn him of Her Majesty's ailing health, the Daily Star previously reported. In his memoir, Spare, Harry described how he then texted Prince William to ask about travel arrangements to Balmoral but received no reply from his brother.
Hardman wrote: "Clearly, Prince William did not regard this as the appropriate moment for the intensely difficult conversation he needed to have with his brother."
Hardman said the Firm were concerned about plans for Harry's biography, which was released the following January, and were still reeling from the Sussexes' Oprah Winfrey interview in 2021.
Quoting a source, Hardman added: "Some of the family were probably ready to give him a piece of their mind."
