When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle approached the royal family for support in the midst of a significant dispute, they received a simple “no.”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle claimed to have requested the queen for permission to use her childhood nickname for their daughter Lilibet, following a controversy over the latter’s name.
But according to Daily Mail, the Sussexes were “brutally rebuffed” when they approached the royal family to beg them to support their allegation.
According to Robert Hardman’s new biography Charles III: New King, the queen was furious. New Court. An Inside Look at the Story.
Subsequently, royal specialist Richard Fitzwilliams endorsed Hardman’s arguments, stating: “Robert Hardman is among our most authoritative historians.
Among our most reliable historians is Robert Hardman. He cites a staff member of the Queen as claiming that she was “as angry as I’ve ever seen her” over Harry and Meghan’s handling of this.
“Lilibet was the charming and deeply personal childhood nickname which was only used by the Queen’s close family and her intimates,” he said.
If the aide’s claims are accurate, it was abhorrent for the Sussexes to appropriate it in this manner and then claim that she gave her approval. It was ludicrous behavior. It meant causing her anguish in her final years,” he said.
