{"id":184063,"date":"2026-04-03T01:21:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184063\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:21:53","slug":"queen-elizabeth-refused-to-take-prince-harrys-calls-without-a-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184063\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth Refused to Take Prince Harry\u2019s Calls Without a Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/caret-right-regular.a6ec664.svg\" alt=\"Caret Right\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>A royal expert claims Queen Elizabeth II refused to speak to Prince Harry on the phone without a witness.Her Majesty allegedly wanted a \u201crecord\u201d of what was said.The Queen was reportedly \u201cmonosyllabic\u201d during their chats.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">It\u2019s that time of the month again! Yet another book about the royals has come out, and it contains some pretty fascinating intel about Queen Elizabeth\u2019s relationship with Prince Harry at the peak of his drama with the family.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">According to writer Hugo Vickers in the upcoming Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History (via <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/01\/royal-family\/queen-elizabeth-ii-refused-to-take-prince-harrys-calls-without-an-aide-present\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/01\/royal-family\/queen-elizabeth-ii-refused-to-take-prince-harrys-calls-without-an-aide-present\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Page Six\" data-node-id=\"1.3\" class=\"body-link css-ohbdae emevuu60\">Page Six<\/a>), Her Majesty refused to take phone calls from her grandson unless a witness was in the room for record-keeping. Note: she allegedly started this after Harry and Meghan\u2019s Oprah interview.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cWhenever Prince Harry called his grandmother, she asked her lady-in-waiting to stay with her,\u201d Hugo writes. \u201cThe distress the Sussexes caused the Queen in the last years of her life cannot be overestimated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"Chelsea Flower Show\" title=\"Chelsea Flower Show\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3207\" height=\"2354\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01f844e9-ba3c-4366-a861-139fb14c92b3.jpeg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WPA Pool\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">He also notes that the Queen judged Harry\u2019s decision to step away from senior royal duties, saying \u201cAnd now Harry has opted out, and for what? To be a carer for Archie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Meanwhile, a source tells <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/01\/royal-family\/queen-elizabeth-ii-refused-to-take-prince-harrys-calls-without-an-aide-present\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/01\/royal-family\/queen-elizabeth-ii-refused-to-take-prince-harrys-calls-without-an-aide-present\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Page Six\" data-node-id=\"6.1\" class=\"body-link css-ohbdae emevuu60\">Page Six<\/a> that once Meghan and Harry moved to California, Harry\u2019s calls with the Queen became less\u2026verbose. The insider says the Queen intentionally remained \u201cmonosyllabic\u201d during the chats, and that \u201cThere were lots of one word answers, \u2018yes\u2019 and \u2018no.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">\u201cThe Queen clearly wanted some kind of protection,\u201d they said, noting that she kept a witness around for \u201cmoral support and protection\u2026 to ensure there was a record of what was said. I think the Queen was also on her guard with Harry because she was so hurt by what he had done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Yikes, etc.!<\/p>\n<p>Related Story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A royal expert claims Queen Elizabeth II refused to speak to Prince Harry on the phone without a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[69239,567,74077,569,568,9,24,63,122,124,123,58803,74076,50625],"class_list":{"0":"post-184063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-collection-royal-family","9":"tag-content-type-news","10":"tag-contentid-bf3d7c07-a0c1-45f0-9656-7f3586331cb4","11":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","12":"tag-locale-us","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-read_time-2","20":"tag-shorttitle-qeii-refused-to-speak-to-harry-without-a-witness","21":"tag-subsection-celebs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184063","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=184063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}