Prince Harry Was ‘Incensed’ After Being Denied Meeting With Queen Elizabeth II to Discuss Royal Exit, New Book Claims
usmagazine.comInsight into the past. A new book claims that Prince Harry was furious when he was denied a meeting with the late Queen Elizabeth II about his proposed exit from the royal family, a new book claims.While the Duke of Sussex, 38, and Meghan Markle were spending the December 2019 holidays in Canada, Harry tried to set up a discussion with his grandmother, according to Valentine Low‘s book Courtiers: The Hidden Power Behind the Crown.“Harry seemed to be under the impression that they could just sort it out by email before he and Meghan got back to London on January 6, [2020],” read an excerpt published by The Times on Sunday, September 25. “The reply they got, however, was that this would require a proper family conversation.”According to Low, who is a royal correspondent for the U.K.
newspaper, the Invictus Games founder and the Suits alum, 41, were told that no such conversation could occur until January 29. “This went down incredibly badly,” the excerpt continued. “It fed into the narrative that they were not being taken seriously by the palace machinery, or by the rest of the family.”The BetterUp CIO then reportedly tried to set up a meeting with Elizabeth on his own, but that attempt also failed.“The message was conveyed to him that the queen had been confused about her diary, and was no longer available,” Low wrote. “Harry was incensed, because it was not true: the courtiers had got in the way, it seemed, because they saw the meeting with the queen as an attempt to pick the queen off before Harry started talks with the rest of the family.”After he was denied a meeting with the monarch, Harry allegedly considered driving straight from the London airport to Sandringham, where the royal family spends Christmas, so he
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