The late Queen was “as angry as I’d ever seen her” after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced she had given her blessing to name their daughter Lilibet, a senior palace source has said.
Buckingham Palace then “rebuffed” calls from the couple to issue a statement “propping up their version of events”, it is claimed.
A new biography of the King, by Robert Hardman, describes palace staff as being “interested” in Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, for “what had been omitted”.
One member of staff, he said, “privately recalled that the Queen had been ‘as angry as I’d ever seen her’ in 2021 after the Sussexes announced that she had given them her blessing to call their baby daughter ‘Lilibet’, the Queen’s childhood nickname.”
“The couple then fired off warnings of legal action against anyone who dared to suggest otherwise, as the BBC had done.
“However, when the Sussexes tried to co-opt the Palace into propping up their version of events, they were rebuffed.
“Once again, it was a case of ‘recollections may vary’ – the late Queen’s reaction to the Oprah Winfrey interview – as far as Her Majesty was concerned.
