The Princess Royal played an important role in convincing the King that evicting Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from Frogmore Cottage was the best decision, according to a new royal book.
Despite the couple moving to California in 2020 with their son, Prince Archie, and later expanding their family when Princess Lilibet was born in 2021, they had kept the four-bed property until earlier this year, when it was returned to the Crown.
And in Omid Scobie's new book Endgame: Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy's Fight for Survival, the author claims that it was Princess Anne who was a vocal supporter of the approach taken by the Palace to make them leave the property.
It adds that the Duke of Edinburgh was said to have been concerned about the mental wellbeing of the estranged royals. The book explains how Prince Harry and Meghan received a letter from Sir Michael John Stevens, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, asking them to return the cottage as they were no longer working royals and lived abroad.
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