Queen Elizabeth prepared cake for Lili’s first birthday — but Harry, Meghan were no-shows: staffer
nypost.comattend the monarch’s Platinum Jubilee in England. The couple were also commemorating their daughter’s big day at the time and according to royal footman Paul Burrell, the queen had a special dessert made for the little tyke.
However, the sovereign — who died on Sept. 8, 2022, at the age of 96 — allegedly didn’t get to meet with her great-granddaughter on her big day.“Even on Lilibet’s first birthday the Queen didn’t see her,” Burrell, 65, told the Mirror recently.“She saw her the day before.
But on her birthday, the queen had a birthday cake made with one candle in it. And they never turned up. That candle was never lit,” Princess Diana’s former butler said.The Invictus Games founder, 38, and the former actress, 42, had thrown a little bash for Lilibet at Frogmore Cottage in Windsor.
The now-2-year-old was born on June 4, 2021, and was named after the queen and Harry’s late mother.Just a day later, the monarch had inquired if the couple would like to come over to Buckingham Palace for tea time.“[She] was told they’ve gone,” Burrell recalled. “‘What do you mean they’ve gone?’ she said.
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