wrote in a Substack post<\/a> that Lady Elizabeth \u201cLiza\u201d Anson\u2014a confidante and cousin of the Queen, as well as a party planner\u2014told her that whenever she raised ideas about the royal wedding, Meghan refused to make any decisions without Harry present.\n<\/p>\n Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHarry wrote to me and said they were going another way,\u201d Anson told Smith. \u201cHe said, \u2018I am close to my grandmother, and she is content with this.\u2019 When I spoke with the Queen, she said she is not at all content.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The Queen was also reportedly \u201cdismayed\u201d (according to Brides) that Harry had asked the Archbishop of Canterbury to perform the wedding service in St. George\u2019s Chapel without first requesting permission from the Dean of Windsor, Bedell Smith wrote. She added that the Duke of Sussex falsely assumed that anything could happen with the Queen\u2019s permission, not taking into account that, when it came to the religious aspects of the wedding ceremony, that fell under the Dean of Windsor.\n<\/p>\n
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding day.<\/p>\n
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle kissing on their wedding day.<\/p>\n
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\u201cShe said she was really upset,\u201d Anson told Bedell Smith. \u201cI was shocked when the Queen told me this, how she was so saddened. I had no idea about the conversation, that he was rude to her for 10 minutes.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on May 19, 2018.<\/p>\n
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In the days before the royal wedding, though, Bedell Smith wrote that the Queen and Harry patched everything up. \u201cShe said she felt very left out, so he wrote her a letter about what was happening,\u201d Anson told Bedell Smith. Ultimately, the couple\u2019s wedding\u2014held at St. George\u2019s Chapel in front of 600 guests\u2014had the Queen\u2019s stamp of approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s royal wedding took place on May 19, 2018 at St. George\u2019s Chapel.According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-163607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}