Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had Queen Elizabeth’s ‘100 percent’ blessing on Lilibet’s name

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saga over “Lilibet” continues. Days after author and royal expert Robert Hardman claimed in his new biography, “Charles III: New King.

New Court. The Inside Story,” that the late Queen Elizabeth was furious over Prince Harry and Meghan Markle naming their daughter Lilibet, a new source claims the Sussexes had the monarch’s support of the moniker. “Meghan and Harry 100 percent got permission from the queen to use the name Lilibet,” a source told Us Weekly on Tuesday.The Post has contacted reps for Harry and Meghan, as well as Buckingham Palace, for comment.Lilibet was the late queen’s childhood nickname used among loved ones.

Nevertheless, Hardman claimed that a member of staff said the late monarch was “as angry as I’d ever seen her” after Harry and Meghan released their statement claiming she supported it.A member of the staff “privately recalled that the Queen had been ‘as angry as I’d ever seen her’ in 2021 after the Sussexes announced that she had given them her blessing to call their baby daughter ‘Lilibet,’ the Queen’s childhood nickname,” he wrote, according to excerpts obtained by the Daily Mail. “However, when the Sussexes tried to co-opt the Palace into propping up their version of events, they were rebuffed.

Once again, it was a case of ‘recollections may vary’ — the late Queen’s reaction to the Oprah Winfrey interview — as far as Her Majesty was concerned,” Hardman continued.“Those noisy threats of legal action evaporated and the libel action against the BBC never materialized.”Hardman’s claims contradict Harry and Meghan’s 2021 statement that was released when Lilibet was born, which said Harry asked for his grandmother’s blessing and would not have used it if she wasn’t “supportive.”“The duke spoke with his.