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THE QUEEN IS alleged to have said “thank goodness Meghan is not coming” to Prince Philip’s funeral, according to unnamed sources cited in a new book.
Biographer Tom Bower’s latest book ‘Revenge: Meghan, Harry And The War Between The Windsors’ is being serialised in the Times and Sunday Times, and includes controversial claims.
An extract published in Saturday’s paper suggests the Queen was relieved that Meghan Markle, then seven months pregnant, would not be attending her husband Philip’s funeral on April 17 last year.
The book states: “‘Thank goodness Meghan is not coming,’ the monarch said in a clear voice to her trusted aides.”
Buckingham Palace, which does not comment on individual books, declined to comment on the story.
However, sources close to the Queen question whether she would have anything other than Philip on her mind on the day of the funeral.
Bower also claims Prince Harry and Meghan made a “demand to appear with the Queen on Buckingham Palace’s balcony” during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations last month.
The book alleges that the Prince of Wales opposed this arrangement.
Clarence House also declined to comment on the book.
Bower writes: “Festering was their (Harry’s and Meghan’s) fury that the palace had refused all of their demands for a prominent role at the Jubilee.”
He adds: “In Meghan’s view those optics were unsatisfactory, partly because her value to Netflix was to stand near the Queen.”
Harry and Meghan did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Bower’s previous unauthorised biographies have featured Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn, Charles, Tony Blair and Richard Branson, among others.
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Don’t blame her!
I doubt very much if she even mentioned them. She was brokenhearted at her husbands funeral. Dont believe everything you read.
It’s ok to not like someone.
If that’s the most outrageous thing to happen in the book the author may be in trouble.
Her Not so trustworthy aides!!
A Headline To Sell The Book
@pat seery: wait Pat, for the scandals & stories that will come out after she pops her clogs. There will be endless books written about the queen when she is gone.
In 1603, two dynasties fell.
Elizabeth I died childless: the Tudors lost the
Crown. And Hugh O’Neill surrendered to the
English: over a thousand years of Gaelic
monarchy ended.
O’Neill died in despair in 1616. But history
had not abandoned him.
He left a daughter, Sorcha O’Neill, who
married an Irish aristocrat, a Magennis of
Iveagh. Ten generations later, one of her
descendants became Lady Glamis. In 1900, she
had a daughter-
-Elizabeth Bowes Lyon.
Elizabeth was the mother of Elizabeth
Windsor. In 1952, she became the Queen of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Elizabeth I1 embodied a dynasty which
Elizabeth I had been at pains to destroy.
DOUGLAS CARSON, 17 JUNE 2011
@Niall O’Reilly: you ok hon?
@Niall O’Reilly: is this true? Fascinating if so
@James Lough: absolutely thank you!
@James Lough: absolutely and thank you!
@Niall O’Reilly: Hugh ONeill the high king of Ireland ?
@Rmaybe: No, he was a noble who ruled Tír Eoghan, making him the most powerful ruler in Ireland. The system of High Kingship had ended a few centuries earlier. Although, now that you mention High Kings, I have heard that yer one here is also descended from the High King Brian Boru.
@Niall O’Reilly: so she’s a paddy not German
@Stephen Walshe: spot on!!
@Stephen Walshe: spot on!!
Trusted aides?
oops
What a pile of pants
The Royal Correspondent sycophants have never changed even after their brutal, vicious treatment of Diana, they’re such horrible people.
Who cares
I doubt she would ever be so indiscreet, and also, we (all of white European ancestry) are all descended from everyone in Europe who was alive in 814 CE, so every high king every holy Roman Emperor, you are a descendent of.
It may be true, it may be bűllshyt, I don’t care, I’m just glad I’m not a British taxpayer funding this clown show. Brits going to food banks at an all time high, thanks to self serving Tories and all the while these bunch of spoofers are living on the pigs back in 10 different palaces with a thousand staff, all being funded by those with nothing left in their wallet at the end of the week.
Hardly blame the women ,,,as she is media mad (Meghan ).
Harry is been used by her at a cost of his family wait and see when she’s has no use for him she will dump him quickly .
They stood back as senior royals,they should not appear on the balcony or any place else of importantce ,cheeky want their cake and eat it,go back to US and be the nobodies they are
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