{"id":204874,"date":"2026-04-21T16:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204874\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:48:35","slug":"why-charles-keeps-snubbing-the-queens-closest-confidante-dame-angela-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204874\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Charles Keeps Snubbing the Queen\u2019s Closest Confidante, Dame Angela Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find it very sad that Angela Kelly\u2014the late Queen Elizabeth\u2019s dresser and best friend\u2014has been excluded from today\u2019s celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Queen Elizabeth II, for which the royals have gathered in London.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!megM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a88d1a0-99f9-4df7-a0c7-9c2d5b4bc7dd_1732x968.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/5a88d1a0-99f9-4df7-a0c7-9c2d5b4bc7dd_1732.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"814\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/5a88d1a0-99f9-4df7-a0c7-9c2d5b4bc7dd_1732x968.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:814,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:3199076,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/theroyalist.substack.com\/i\/194936931?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a88d1a0-99f9-4df7-a0c7-9c2d5b4bc7dd_1732x968.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a revealing interview with Vanity Fair\u2019s Katie Nicholl, going live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheRoyalistChannel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Royalist x The Daily Beast podcast<\/a> at what we hope will be a permanent new earlier hour of 3pm EST \/ 8pm GMT, Katie, who has conducted the only interview with Dame Angela since the Queen\u2019s death, tells me the astonishing details of how she has been snubbed and sidelined by the family and the establishment since then.<\/p>\n<p>I also chatted to Katie about my bafflement that Dame Angela seems to have been deliberately whitewashed out of accounts of Elizabeth II\u2019s final hours despite the fact that she was at her bedside when Her Majesty passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I find it very sad that Angela Kelly\u2014the late Queen Elizabeth\u2019s dresser and best friend\u2014has been excluded from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-204874","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\/204874","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=204874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}