It’s been three and a half years since Queen Elizabeth passed away at the age of 96, but she is still missed by millions around the world to this day. Now, a new book is alleging that the Queen had concerns about her grandson Prince Harry’s future wife Meghan Markle from the very beginning.
Queen Saw Through Meghan
The veteran political reporter Susan Page new book “The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History” is set to hit stores on April 14. In it, a palace aide claimed that the Queen saw though Meghan from the start of her relationship with Harry.
“Her Majesty had become wary of Meghan as an opportunist — was ‘on to her from the start,’ the aide said. And one with public relations skills that left the palace’s outdated press operation in the dust,” Page wrote.
Harry, 41, revealed in his 2023 memoir “Spare” that Meghan, 44, met the Queen back in October of 2016 at the Royal Lodge in Windsor, England.
“I remember my family first meeting her and being incredibly impressed. Some of them didn’t quite know what to do with themselves,” Harry claimed in his 2022 Netflix series Harry & Meghan. “Because I think they were surprised. They were surprised that a ginger could land such a beautiful woman and such an intelligent woman.
“But the fact that I was dating an American actress was probably what clouded their judgment more than anything else at the beginning: ‘Oh she’s an American actress; this won’t last,'” he added.
Meghan was quick to agree with this sentiment.
“The actress thing was the biggest problem, funnily enough,” Megan alleged. “There is a big idea of what that looks like from the U.K. standpoint — Hollywood. And it’s just very easy for them to typecast that.”
In her 2021 tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, Meghan claimed that the Queen “has been wonderful to me.”
“She’s always been warm and inviting and really welcoming,” she stated.
Harry’s Alleged ‘Bitterness’
Meghan and Harry stepped down as senior royals in January 0f 2020. They then moved across the world to Southern California, where Meghan was born and raised.
In her new book, Page wrote, “A senior royal aide said Harry’s bitterness toward the palace staff and his own family stemmed in part from his resentment over being treated as a ‘lesser royal’ than William — perhaps inevitable, given that his brother was the heir apparent.”
“Harry complained that he was put in a bedroom ‘miles away’ from William’s posher surroundings,” Page continued.
Palace Staffers Concerns
Page went on to say that some palace staffers have long had doubts that King Charles is even Harry’s biological father. Indeed, Harry has been plagued with rumors about his parentage for years.
“Some staff openly speculated about whether Harry was in fact Charles’s biological son. The unsubstantiated gossip that the red-haired royal was the product of an affair between Princess Diana and the red-haired Calvary officer James Hewitt,” Page wrote.
“In his memoir, Harry said that even Prince Charles joked about his parentage. ‘Who knows if I’m even your real father,’ Charles would say, then ‘laugh and laugh.’ After all, Charles said, a patient at a nearby psychiatric hospital had insisted to him that he was the true Prince of Wales,” she stated. “The ‘remarkably unfunny joke’ made him feel more isolated, Harry wrote. He was already emotionally vulnerable. He had been just twelve years old when his mother had been killed in a spectacular car crash, paparazzi in pursuit.”
Charles and Princess Diana divorced in August of 1996. One year later, Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris, France.
The Queen was an incredibly shrewd woman. That’s why it comes as no surprise that she saw through Meghan from the beginning. Only time will tell if Harry ever comes to his senses and leaves Meghan at some point.