Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's latest Netflix project hasn't done as well as their debut as one royal commentator predicts this will have 'hurt' the couple.
15.12.2022 - 18:09 / usmagazine.com
Refused an audience. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle detailed the days before they announced they were stepping down as senior royals — and said they were denied a meeting with Queen Elizabeth II.
The Duke of Sussex, 38, and the Duchess of Sussex, 41, discussed the lead-up to their January 2020 announcement in the fifth episode of Harry & Meghan, which debuted on Netflix Thursday, December 15. After spending Christmas 2019 in Vancouver, Canada, the duo planned to return to the United Kingdom just after the new year.
“Before we left, I spoke to my grandmother as well and told her that we’re coming back on the 6th, and I would love to drive up and come and see you,” the Invictus Games founder recalled. “She knew that we were finding things hard. I’d spoken to her many times about it. She told me she had no plans for the week. She said, ‘Well, why don’t you come up? You can have tea. Why don’t you stay the night, you and Meghan?'”
The couple planned to take the late monarch up on her offer, but as they were getting on their flight to London, they received news that the meeting wouldn’t be happening.
“This urgent, urgent message comes through to H saying, ‘You are not allowed to go and see Her Majesty. Make sure that your principal is aware he cannot go and see her. She’s busy. She has plans all week,'” the Suits alum claimed.
Harry, for his part, was surprised given what his grandmother had already told him about her plans for the week. “I was like, ‘Well, that’s certainly the opposite to what she told me,'” the BetterUp CIO said. “Once we were back in the U.K., I rang her and said, ‘I’m now told that you’re busy.’ She goes, ‘Yes, I didn’t know that I was busy. I’ve been told that I’m busy. I’ve been told that I’m busy all week.’
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