{"id":183766,"date":"2026-04-02T20:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183766\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:33:31","slug":"meghan-markle-was-unwelcome-to-be-with-queen-pre-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183766\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle Was &#8216;Unwelcome&#8217; To Be With Queen Pre-Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle was reportedly not allowed to be with the royal family for Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s final moments.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tom Bower&#8217;s book Betrayal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonderwall.com\/celebrity-profile\/celebrity\/profiles\/prince-harry-481-article\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Prince Harry<\/a> was told that his wife was not welcome to join him as he said his final goodbye to his grandmother before her September 2022 passing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When King Charles III heard that Meghan intended to come, he called Harry. That was unacceptable, said Charles,&#8221; the author wrote in a passage obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/893227\/why-meghan-markle-unwelcome-queen-elizabeth-death\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/893227\/why-meghan-markle-unwelcome-queen-elizabeth-death\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HELLO!<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PH.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-425709\"\/>Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Harry attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace in 2019. By: MEGA <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since Meghan had refused the Queen\u2019s invitations to Balmoral in the Queen\u2019s lifetime, she was unwelcome at her death,&#8221; Bower claimed. &#8220;Sharing his grief with Meghan, who maligned the monarchy, was unthinkable, said Charles.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He [Charles] believed that, to her dying day, his mother was shocked by Harry\u2019s disloyalty,&#8221; the journalist added.<\/p>\n<p>Harry was reportedly &#8220;outraged&#8221; by his father&#8217;s demand. &#8220;Charles ended their argument by revealing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonderwall.com\/celebrity-profile\/celebrity\/profiles\/duchess-kate-1356-article\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wonderwall.com\/celebrity-profile\/celebrity\/profiles\/duchess-kate-1356-article\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kate [Middleton]<\/a> would not be coming, so Meghan had not been picked on,&#8221; Bower wrote. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KC6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-425724\"\/>King Charles III and Prince Harry during the funeral procession for Queen Elizabeth II in 2022. By: MEGA<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Still fuming, Harry discovered that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonderwall.com\/celebrity-profile\/celebrity\/profiles\/prince-william-482-article\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wonderwall.com\/celebrity-profile\/celebrity\/profiles\/prince-william-482-article\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[Prince] William<\/a>, who was unwilling to wait any longer, had ordered the plane to take off,&#8221; he alleged. <\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Susan Page&#8217;s upcoming book,\u00a0The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History,\u00a0she claimed the late matriarch was not a fan of the With Love, Meghan star. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her Majesty had become wary of Meghan as an opportunist \u2014 was \u2018on to her from the start,&#8217; the aide said \u2014 and one with public relations skills that left the palace\u2019s outdated press operation in the dust,&#8221; the author wrote via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/queen-elizabeth-on-to-meghan-markle-from-start-viewed-her-opportunist-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fox News Digital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo Vickers alleged in his new book,\u00a0Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History,\u00a0that Elizabeth wouldn&#8217;t even speak with Harry on the phone without a witness present after he and Meghan left England. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MM6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-425728\"\/>Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attend a reception with delegates from the Commonwealth Youth Forum in 2018. By: MEGA <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The distress the Sussexes caused the Queen in the last years of her life cannot be overestimated,&#8221;\u00a0the journalist wrote in a passage obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/01\/royal-family\/queen-elizabeth-ii-refused-to-take-prince-harrys-calls-without-an-aide-present\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Page Six<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever Prince Harry called his grandmother, she asked her lady-in-waiting to stay with her,&#8221; Vickers claimed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle was reportedly not allowed to be with the royal family for Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s final moments.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[489,9,24,63,490,71694,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-183766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-meghan-markle","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-prince-harry","tag-queen-elizabeth-ll","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183766","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=183766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}