Queen’s uncharacteristically damning verdict on Meghan: Balmoral guest claims the late monarch ‘raised eyebrows’ with her remarks on Harry and his wife – a month before she died
The source said: ‘It was out of character for the Queen…but she saw straight through Meghan.
‘At the drinks before the dinner, a small group were talking to the monarch and she explained that Harry meeting Meghan had become a complete catastrophe.
‘By this point we all knew the Queen’s health was in decline and she had months left, she seemed regretful about how things had panned out.’
By this stage, Harry and Meghan had stepped down as working royals and were living a new life in Montecito.
When ‘Megxit’ was announced in January 2020, the late monarch released a statement saying: ‘Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved members of my family.’
That is not to say that relations between the couple and the monarch were always on an amicable footing with things beginning to sour during the planning of the couple’s wedding, according to Lady Liza Anson.
Born in Windsor Castle, Lady Elizabeth, a great-niece of the Queen Mother and a goddaughter of King George VI, was a high-society party planner.