'It was an attempt to reassert control in the interests of damage limitation...'
"Elizabeth was hurt and disappointed," Dennison writes in the book, according to an excerpt published byEven though she had strong feelings about the exit on a personal level, the Queen immediately put the monarchy first when deciding how to proceed and made it clear that Harry and Meghan couldn't use their"royal highness" titles if they weren't working royals.
In the excerpt, Dennison explains why the decision was very much in line with the Queen's philosophy about the role of the monarch: "Elizabeth’s official statement expressed loving finality: ‘It is my whole family’s hope that today’s agreement allows them to start building a happy and peaceful new life.’ It was an attempt to reassert control in the interests of damage limitation, and a decisive but dark beginning to a new decade. Elizabeth had never been a sentimental woman; she had acted in the only way she understood.
As throughout a life in which she had consistently honoured her father’s belief that ‘the highest of distinctions is the service of others’, she had placed the monarchy first, safeguarding its mission of service and duty that could never, she was certain, be a part-time calling."is set to be released on September 1, if you want to read more of Dennison's insights into
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