Queen 'so upset' not to have met Lilibet on Harry and Meghan visit, expert says

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s flying visit, a royal expert has claimed.Royal fans were surprised by news that Harry and Meghan had stopped over at Windsor Castle to meet the Queen – their first trip to the UK together since their acrimonious departure from royal life in early 2020.The pair had been on their way to The Hague for the Invictus Games, where they are expected to be accompanied by a camera crew to film for Harry’s Netflix documentary project on the sporting contest.And, despite the monarch reportedly welcoming the pair, royal expert Jennie Bond told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that Queen Elizabeth would have been disappointed not to meet her namesake Lilibet, who is nearly a year old.“She must be so, so upset not to have met her [great]-granddaughter who has her name,” she said.“But there we are, they have their Netflix camera crew following them around and it would have been very nice wouldn’t it, if the crew had been allowed to see that meeting between the three or four of them.“But I don’t imagine the crew were allowed into Windsor castle.”Also commenting, ITV royal editor Chris Ship suggested that the couple never intended for the children to travel to the Invictus Games with them, and claimed that Meghan would only stay in The Hague with Harry for the first couple of days anyway before heading back to California.But, despite the brevity of their encounter, Jennie added that the in-person meeting between the ex-royals and their family members must have been “enormously emotional”.“I’ve been watching Harry grow up and been reporting on him since he was a little boy and he’s certainly not without feelings and he’s not without love and sentiment, perhaps he’s got a bit too much of those things in fact.To.