{"id":187811,"date":"2026-04-06T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187811\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:56:08","slug":"queen-elizabeth-ordered-staff-to-ignore-meghan-markle-tiara-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187811\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth ordered staff to ‘ignore’ Meghan Markle tiara request"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late Queen Elizabeth II was allegedly so fed up with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2018s demands leading up to their May 2018 royal wedding that the monarch ordered one request specifically be denied, Wonderwall.com<\/a> can report.<\/p>\n

According to a new book, the Duke of Sussex insisted his grandmother\u2019s personal aide and dresser, Angela Kelly, obtain and deliver a priceless tiara for his bride-to-be with almost no notice \u2014 a demand the sovereign instructed her assistant to \u201cignore.\u201d<\/p>\n

While much has been discussed surrounding \u201cTiara-gate\u201d over the years, author Robert Hardman is sharing new details in his upcoming book, Elizabeth II, about the queen\u2019s scathing response after learning about drama with Harry and Meghan in the run-up to their nuptials.<\/p>\n

New \u2018Tiara-gate\u2019 details
\nQueen Mary\u2019s Diamond Bandeau Tiara, which was crafted from diamonds and platinum in 1932, was bequeathed to Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. By: MEGA<\/p>\n

The former Suits actress was lent Queen Mary\u2019s Diamond Bandeau Tiara for the nuptials but seemingly didn\u2019t realize that such a pricey piece would take time to access when she asked to borrow it the same day she\u2019d scheduled a hair-test session with stylist Serge Normant.<\/p>\n

Hardman writes that the \u201cmood turned sour\u201d when \u201cthe couple rang the palace to ask the queen\u2019s dresser and curator, Angela Kelly, to send over the tiara,\u201d as Meghan wanted to \u201cpractice\u201d with it before walking down the aisle.<\/p>\n

The queen was allegedly quite miffed, as Prince William\u2018s wife, Kate Middleton, reportedly had used a plastic tiara from the accessories chain Claire\u2019s to practice her wedding-day hairstyle in 2011, and couldn\u2019t understand why Meghan couldn\u2019t do the same.<\/p>\n

The queen\u2019s instructions
\nPrince Harry reportedly complained about Meghan Markle not getting the queen\u2019s tiara for a day-of hair test session. By: MEGA<\/p>\n

After learning Harry was pressuring Kelly to deliver the tiara, the queen was \u201cnot pleased,\u201d Hardman\u2019s book claims. \u201cIt\u2019s not a toy,\u201d the monarch told an insider. According to the author, the monarch \u201ctold Kelly to ignore the phone calls.\u201d<\/p>\n

A source who spoke to Hardman for the book explained, \u201cHarry had been on to everyone about this. We thought Angela was like the fairy godmother who had delivered. But when she called Kensington Palace, she was put through to Prince Harry, who just said, \u2018Get it here now.\u2019 And that was the end of the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another palace source told the author that the Duchess of Sussex was late for her hair appointment, leaving a fuming Harry to chastise Kelly for telling the queen about his requests.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was already an atmosphere before Angela arrived. Meghan was nowhere to be seen. Harry poked the box and said \u2018Is that it?\u2019 Then he stood over Angela and said he did not like her whining to his grandmother,\u201d the source claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAngela gave it straight back. She said that she did not like him getting all these people to push her when she was just doing her job. She tried to tell him about the history and how it was for their own sake, but he walked out,\u201d the source added. Hardman explained that palace staff were researching the tiara\u2019s full history to ensure there wasn\u2019t anything controversial about it that could surface and be used against the couple.<\/p>\n

The queen\u2019s aide tried to move on and \u201cdecided to put it down to pre-wedding nerves. All Angela did was to try to protect them,\u201d a former colleague said.<\/p>\n

Harry branded Kelly \u2018obstructive\u2019
\nPrince Harry and Meghan Markle faced plenty of drama leading up to their May 2018 wedding in Windsor, England. By: MEGA<\/p>\n

In his 2023 memoir, Spare, Harry claimed Kelly \u201cwas being obstructive.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the prince, Meghan was originally going to wear the Spencer tiara \u2014 the same one worn by his late mother, Princess Diana, when she wed King Charles III in 1981 \u2014 but his grandmother stepped in and offered Meghan the chance to choose one of hers instead.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe offered us access to her collection of tiaras,\u201d Harry wrote. \u201cShe even invited us to Buckingham Palace to try them on. \u2018Do come over,\u2019 I remember her saying.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Harry told it, the queen suggested Meghan rehearse wearing the tiara ahead of the wedding, noting, \u201cIt\u2019s tricky and you don\u2019t want to be doing it for the first time on the wedding day.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he claimed the process became complicated due to Kelly\u2019s antics. She was allegedly unresponsive at first, then later insisted the tiara would require a \u201cpolice escort\u201d to leave the palace. But even after he agreed to arrange security, she \u201cinexplicably\u201d told him, \u201ccan\u2019t be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI considered going to Granny, but that would probably mean sparking an all-out confrontation, and I wasn\u2019t quite sure with whom Granny would side,\u201d Harry wrote. \u201cAlso, to my mind, Angela was a troublemaker, and I didn\u2019t need her as an enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 2020 biography Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of A Modern Royal Family, co-authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand wrote that Harry felt Kelly \u201cdeliberately dragged her feet\u201d in getting Meghan the tiara for the hair test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Queen Elizabeth II was allegedly so fed up with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2018s demands leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187812,"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":{"0":"post-187811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-meghan-markle","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-prince-harry","13":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ll","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187811","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=187811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}