Prince Harry claims to have not found out about his grandmother Queen Elizabeth's death from his family but a royal author has now said that is not entirely true.
The Duke of Sussex rushed to be by the late monarch's side when he heard about her fast declining health in the hours before her passing.
When his plane finally landed in Balmoral, he checked the BBC to discover that his beloved grandmother had died.
However, royal author Robert Hardman has slammed Harry's recollection of events as he said they are not accurate, the Mirror reports.
In his bombshell new book, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story, Robert insists that the Royal Family tried to get in touch multiple times with Harry.
He wrote: "In his memoir, Spare, he suggests that no one had told him and that he was reduced to learning the news from the BBC website as the plane was landing. Not exactly.
"A member of the Palace staff says that the King had been urgently trying to make contact with his younger son. 'There were repeated attempts to get through to him but no calls were going through because Harry was airborne,' says the official."
The Sussexes had made a trip to the UK in September 2022 for a series of engagements which came at the same time as the palace's announcement that Queen Elizabeth had been advised by her doctors to rest.
Harry opened up about his grandmother's death in his tell-all memoir Spare as he claims to have received a text from his wife Meghan Markle as he travelled to Balmoral.
He wrote: "When the plane started to descend I saw that my phone lit up. It was a message from Meg, 'Call me when you get this'. I looked at the BBC website. My grandmother had died. My father was King."
Royal author Omid Scobie also claims that the duke was "kept in the dark" about the Queen's health decline in the hours before her death.
In his bombshell book Endgame, which hit shelves in November last year, the controversial royal author said that Harry and Meghan had "no idea" that the Royal Family were preparing for the Queen's final hours.
Omid wrote: "The Sussexes had no idea that Buckingham Palace was already planning for the Queen’s final hours and the first days of the monarchy’s new era — until the duke’s phone started ringing. An unknown number. He usually ignored those."
The duchess urged her husband to answer the phone and he accepted the call "just before it stopped".
The call was from his father, King Charles, urging him to come to Balmoral to be by the Queen's side with Prince William already said to be arranging travel.
Harry messaged his brother asking if they could travel to Scotland together but received no response with Omid claiming that the Sussexes were left to "operate in the dark".
