Queen Elizabeth was furious when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said she had given them permission to name their daughter Lilibet, a new boo...
Queen Elizabeth was furious when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said she had given them permission to name their daughter Lilibet, a new book claims.
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 Sussexes reportedly attempted to "co-opt" the Firm into "propping up" their version of events but were "rebuffed."
Lilibet was a nickname given to the Queen when she was a young child as she struggled to pronounce the letters of her name. Only her parents, her sister Princess Margaret, Prince Philip and a handful close friends used the moniker.
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 despite sending two messages, 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."
The Daily Star previously reported how Hardman recalled the final moments of Her Majesty's life, claiming she was "very peaceful" as she passed away. Sir Edward Young, Her Majesty's private secretary, was at Balmoral when she passed away. He wrote of her death: "Very peaceful. In her sleep.
"Slipped away. Old age. She wouldn't have been aware of anything. No pain."
