By asserting that Queen Elizabeth II was “angry” when Harry and Meghan named their daughter Lilibet, royal author Robert Hardman has ignited a fresh controversy.
“One privately recalled that Elizabeth II had been ‘as angry as I’d ever seen her’ in 2021 after the Sussexes announced that she had given them her blessing to name their baby daughter ‘Lilibet,’ the Queen’s childhood nickname,” Hardman wrote in his new biography, Charles III: New King, New Court.
Royal experts are already offering their opinions on the subject. Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbaminu, for example, took to X to write: “People have lost their minds. God give me strength.” No one, least of all Queen Elizabeth, has to approve Harry and Meghan’s decision to name their child Lilibet.”
“It was not ‘necessity’ that they received her blessing,” she countered. For crying out loud, Queen Elizabeth did not invent or own the name Lilibet.
“What grandma in her right mind would be ‘angry’ at a great-grandchild being named in her honor?” the speaker went on.
Shola also contended that such statements regarding the late queen could damage her reputation among the general people. “I have a very strong views about Queen Elizabeth but even I’m flabbergasted at those spurious claims that do nothing but blight her character and judgment,” she wrote in a letter.
“If these unnamed ‘sources and aides’ thought this would damage Harry and Meghan, they’re wrong,” she said.
“To make money off of discrediting Harry and Meghan once more, The Daily Mail has dug out a deceased Queen and tarnished her reputation. Shameful,” she said in closing.
