Harry and Meghan 'took only thing Queen owned' by naming daughter Lilibet
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's decision to name their daughter Lilibet reportedly left the late Queen feeling like they had taken the only thing she owned.
Harry and Meghan announced in June 2021 that their newborn daughter would be given the late monarch's childhood family nickname as a first name. A spokesperson for Harry and Meghan insisted at the time that the duke spoke to his grandmother in advance and would not have used the name had the monarch not been supportive.
However, in his new biography King Charles, royal author Robert Hardman alleges the late Queen was furious over Harry and Meghan's decision to call their daughter Lilibet in 2021, and their claim they asked for her permission.
The late Queen during her final royal engagement two days before her death (Getty Images)
Harry and Meghan's young daughter Lilibet (Misan Harriman/Duke and Duchess of Sussex HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)And now, according to the Daily Mail, the late Queen was so upset by the situation, she told her aides: "I don't own the palaces, I don't own the paintings, the only thing I own is my name. And now they've taken that."
In Mr Hardman's new book, it tells how a member of staff recounted Elizabeth II's fury following Harry and Meghan’s announcement in 2021 over the use of her childhood family nickname. The BBC later reported that a Palace source said the Queen was not asked by the Sussexes whether they could use Lilibet. But the Sussexes’ lawyers fired off legal letters to the broadcaster and other publishers, saying the claim was false and defamatory.
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Hardman, however, claims the Queen's aides painted a very different picture. "One privately recalled that Elizabeth II had been 'as angry as I'd ever seen her' in 2021 after the Sussexes announced she had given them her blessing to call their baby daughter 'Lilibet'" The author said Buckingham Palace then refused attempts by Harry and Meghan to confirm their version of events. "When the Sussexes tried to co-opt the palace into propping up their version of events, they were rebuffed," he writes.
Lilibet was first used when Princess Elizabeth was just a toddler and unable to pronounce her own name properly. Her grandfather King George V would affectionately call her Lilibet, imitating her own attempts to say Elizabeth. The sweet nickname stuck and she became Lilibet to her family from then on.
Harry and Meghan's youngest child, now a princess following the accession of her grandfather, was born in California on June 4 2021. She arrived two months after the death of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh and in the wake of controversial claims levelled at the monarchy by the Sussexes in their bombshell Oprah interview.
Palace courtiers have now claimed that the new book had revealed "the truth" about the bitter row at the heart of the Royal Family. Royal sources said Buckingham Palace was 'relieved' and aides were 'celebrating' the contents of the biography.
A royal source said: "There's no denying it is pleasing that the truth has emerged. [Harry and Meghan] attempted to railroad their version of events through, which weren’t accepted then and they are not now. You’ll find the silence [from the Palace] speaks volumes, but everyone is quietly celebrating this particular wrong being righted."
Meanwhile, Mr Hardman also claims the palace fears Harry will write a sequel to his explosive memoir, Spare. He wrote: "For the Palace, the most worrying aspect of the book was the omission of large chunks of more recent events. Harry and Meghan's wedding, married life and their departure from the royal world amounted to less than a fifth of Harry’s memoir. This suggested a sequel."
Other revelations in Hardman's book include how the Prince of Wales saw Harry's remarks in his Netflix documentary that male members of the family can be tempted to marry someone who fits the mould rather than someone they are destined to be with as "the lowest of the low". William viewed it as "Harry making a blatant attack" on his wife the Princess of Wales. Buckingham Palace has not commented on the book.
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