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Queen Elizabeth II has been gone for over a year and a half, but the British media is still harping on the monarch’s relationship with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. A new book by Ingrid Seward, My Mother and I, focuses on “the real relationship between King Charles III and his mother,” but she still finds time to criticize the Sussexes’ wedding.
One of the first glaring notes, in an excerpt in the Daily Mail, is Queen Elizabeth’s friend Lady Elizabeth Anson revealing that Harry’s grandmother only “made one remark” after the couple’s wedding. Apparently, the monarch believed Meghan’s dress was “too white” because “it was not appropriate for a divorcee getting remarried in church to look quite so flamboyantly virginal.” Queen Elizabeth obviously grew up in a different era, but why would any author promote such antiquated societal views on wedding attire?
Seward also claims in her book that the queen was uncomfortable with having the then-Prince Charles walk Meghan down the aisle after such a messy pre-wedding situation with her father, Thomas Markle. There was no explanation as to why Queen Elizabeth didn’t want Charles to step in, so that opinion on the wedding remains a mystery.
Queen Elizabeth also reportedly thought that Archbishop Michael Curry’s 14-minute sermon was too long. “Both the Queen and Prince Philip, who hate long sermons, were desperate for him to finish. They must also have been aware that some of those around them were stifling their laughter,” Seward wrote. If the actual criticism of the ceremony wasn’t enough, the author also gave one final condemnation to Harry by claiming that “the Queen was dismayed by Harry’s high-handed attitude both before and after the wedding, and their relationship was ‘quite badly damaged by it all.‘” Seward’s report is contrary to other stories that they maintained a warm relationship until her death in 2022.
The author added that Lady Elizabeth shared with her that “the Queen never truly understood” why Harry chose to leave royal life and the Oprah Winfrey interview confused her even more. “However much she loved Harry — and she did — she couldn’t condone the way he was speaking about the institution of the monarchy she’d spent 70 years preserving,” the excerpt reads. The royal family may truly never understand Harry and Meghan’s journey, though, because both sides refuse to meet each other in the middle.
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