{"id":183816,"date":"2026-04-02T21:14:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183816\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:14:36","slug":"meghan-markle-was-unwelcome-at-the-late-queens-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183816\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle was \u2018unwelcome\u2019 at the late Queen\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle was reportedly not allowed to be with the royal family for Queen Elizabeth II\u2018s final moments.<\/p>\n

According to Tom Bower\u2018s book Betrayal, 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

\u201cWhen King Charles III heard that Meghan intended to come, he called Harry. That was unacceptable, said Charles,\u201d the author wrote in a passage obtained by HELLO!<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Queen<\/p>\n

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Harry attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace in 2019. By: MEGA<\/p>\n

\u201cSince Meghan had refused the Queen\u2019s invitations to Balmoral in the Queen\u2019s lifetime, she was unwelcome at her death,\u201d Bower claimed. \u201cSharing his grief with Meghan, who maligned the monarchy, was unthinkable, said Charles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Charles] believed that, to her dying day, his mother was shocked by Harry\u2019s disloyalty,\u201d the journalist added.<\/p>\n

Harry was reportedly \u201coutraged\u201d by his father\u2019s demand. \u201cCharles ended their argument by revealing that Kate [Middleton]<\/a> would not be coming, so Meghan had not been picked on,\u201d Bower wrote.<\/p>\n

\"King<\/p>\n

King Charles III and Prince Harry during the funeral procession for Queen Elizabeth II in 2022. By: MEGA<\/p>\n

\u201cStill fuming, Harry discovered that [Prince] William<\/a>, who was unwilling to wait any longer, had ordered the plane to take off,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n

In Susan Page\u2018s upcoming book, The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History, she claimed the late matriarch was not a fan of the With Love, Meghan star.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer Majesty had become wary of Meghan as an opportunist \u2014 was \u2018on to her from the start,\u2019 the aide said \u2014 and one with public relations skills that left the palace\u2019s outdated press operation in the dust,\u201d the author wrote via Fox News Digital<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hugo Vickers alleged in his new book, Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History, that Elizabeth wouldn\u2019t even speak with Harry on the phone without a witness present after he and Meghan left England.<\/p>\n

\"Meghan<\/p>\n

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry attend a reception with delegates from the Commonwealth Youth Forum in 2018. By: MEGA<\/p>\n

\u201cThe distress the Sussexes caused the Queen in the last years of her life cannot be overestimated,\u201d the journalist wrote in a passage obtained by Page Six<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever Prince Harry called his grandmother, she asked her lady-in-waiting to stay with her,\u201d Vickers claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle was reportedly not allowed to be with the royal family for Queen Elizabeth II\u2018s final moments.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5636,489,9,24,63,490,1312,122,124,123,73887],"class_list":{"0":"post-183816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-king-charles-iii","9":"tag-meghan-markle","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-prince-harry","14":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-tom-bower"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183816","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=183816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}