King Charles got ‘lucky’ as he delivered sad news to Prince Harry
Meghan Markle was restricted from attendance on Queen Elizabeth deathbed
King Charles reportedly asked Prince Harry not to bring Meghan Markle on Queen Elizabeth II deathbed.
The Duchess of Sussex was asked not to accompany husband Prince Harry to Balmoral Castle because sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, had also decided to step back.
Robert Hardman wrote in biography, Charles III: New King, New Court. The Inside Story: “It was by luck rather than judgment, but it made it a lot easier to tell Harry that he was coming alone.”
Speaking about the day of the Queen’s demise, Harry himself wrote in memoir Spare: “I immediately texted Willy to ask whether he and Kate were flying up. If so, when? And how? No response. Meg and I looked at flight options.”
Author Hardman then noted how William’s silence was in fact very loud, noting: “Clearly, Prince William did not regard this as the appropriate moment for the intensely difficult conversation he needed to have with his brother.”
“It was King Charles, at the time still a Prince, who called Harry and broke the news.”
Hardman explains: “We can easily imagine the dread with which the Prince of Wales approached that call.
“The Sussexes’ capacity for taking offence was well known and everyone was conscious that any conversation could end up in the public domain, as, indeed, this one did three months later,” they noted.
