Queen Elizabeth II would reportedly ask one of her ladies-in-waiting to be in the room with her whenever Prince Harry called, a new bombshell book has revealed.
The upcoming book, Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History by royal biographer Hugo Vickers is being released to coincide with what would have been the late monarch’s 100th birthday in April. The author has taken a deep dive into the late monarch’s life, drawing on recollections from rare insiders and decades of observations.
Mr Vickers wrote: “Whenever Prince Harry called his grandmother, she asked her lady-in-waiting to stay with her. The distress the Sussexes caused the Queen in the last years of her life cannot be overestimated.”
The new claim follows a previous revelation from a royal insider that the late monarch was “as angry as I’d ever seen her” after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle publicly said they had received her blessing to name their daughter ‘Lilibet’ – a childhood nickname used by the late monarch and those dearest to her.
In his book, Charles III: New King, New Court. The Inside Story, author Robert Hardman revealed that the Queen was left “outraged” by Meghan and Harry’s “lie” about their daughter’s name.
On the final night of his life, the biographer wrote that the Duke “gave his nurses the slip, shuffled along the corridor on his Zimmer frame, helped himself to a beer and drank it in the Oak Room. The following morning, he got up, had a bath, said he did not feel well and quietly slipped away.”
The late Queen did not see him before he died, Vickers has written. “She took the line, I was told, that she was ‘absolutely furious that, as so often in life, he left without saying goodbye.'”
Vickers also claimed that Philip “did not want to reach his 100th birthday [on June 10], particularly disliking the fuss attendant at such events.”