A new book claims Prince Harry was 'incensed' when royal staff prevented him from seeing the queen ahead of his royal exit announcement in 2020.
were spending the December 2019 holidays in Canada, Harry tried to set up a discussion with his grandmother, according to“Harry seemed to be under the impression that they could just sort it out by email before he and Meghan got back to London on January 6, [2020],” read an excerpt published by
on Sunday, September 25. “The reply they got, however, was that this would require a proper family conversation.”Victoria Jones/AP/Shutterstock; Joe Giddens/WPA Pool/Shutterstock According to Low, who is a royal correspondent for the U.K. newspaper, the Invictus Games founder and thealum, 41, were told that no such conversation could occur until January 29. “This went down incredibly badly,” the excerpt continued. “It fed into the narrative that they were not being taken seriously by the palace machinery, or by the rest of the family.”The BetterUp CIO then reportedly tried to set up a meeting with Elizabeth on his own, but that attempt also failed.
“The message was conveyed to him that the queen had been confused about her diary, and was no longer available,” Low wrote. “Harry was incensed, because it was not true: the courtiers had got in the way, it seemed, because they saw the meeting with the queen as an attempt to pick the queen off before Harry started talks with the rest of the family.”
After he was denied a meeting with the monarch, Harry allegedly considered driving straight from the London airport to Sandringham, where the royal family spends Christmas, so he could speak to his grandmother. “He eventually dropped the idea, but it was a sign of his frustration that he even contemplated such a move,” Low added.
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