Recently, royal author Hugo Vickers revealed in his new book Queen Elizabeth's true attitude towards Harry and Meghan during her later years.
According to Vickers, Queen Elizabeth was unsettled in her later years and even seemed preoccupied. She was worried about the family problems of Andrew, Harry and Meghan.
At the beginning of 2020, after Harry and Meghan announced their resignation as working royal members, they originally hoped to maintain their status as "half-in, half-out" royal members, that is, attending a small number of public royal events while allowing the couple to run their business. This is obviously in conflict with the long-standing code of conduct of the British royal family.
This led Queen Elizabeth to categorically reject Harry and Meghan's proposal. After the Sandringham meeting, the Queen told Harry that there was no middle-ground option either to serve the royal family full-time or to withdraw completely.
In the end, Harry reluctantly left the UK and returned to Canada, where he and Meghan were living temporarily.
The Queen subsequently announced that Harry and Meghan would be prohibited from using their royal titles for commercial activities, but she still wished them success in their new lives.
On March 1, 2021, 99-year-old Prince Philip was admitted to the hospital for emergency surgery. Just 6 days later, Harry and Meghan appeared on Oprah's interview show. Meghan accused the royal family of "racism" for the first time and made other unverifiable accusations.
It is reported that the Queen felt sad that Harry appeared on this show to smear the reputation of the royal family. Then the Queen issued a statement, still her plain and watery style: Memories may vary,
Since then, although Harry and the Queen still had phone calls, Harry seemed to have completely lost the Queen's trust. Whenever Harry called, the Queen would ask the maid to be present. There were no more intimate private calls in the past, and the disappointment could not be more obvious.
In fact, the main members of the British royal family have never been optimistic about Harry and Meghan's marriage. Long before the two got married, the Queen warned Harry that the two got married too fast. She suggested that Harry wait for at least one more year.
Prince William also expressed similar views. William suggested that Harry should give Harry more time to get to know Meghan.
This was actually a sincere suggestion from his brother, but it seemed to arouse Harry's rebellious psychology, and eventually even caused conflicts between the brothers.
King Charles's attitude was more direct: have a happy relationship, but don't marry her.
Even Andrew, who is estranged from Harry, said she was an "opportunist".
Of course, Harry finally ignored all family members’ advice and officially held their wedding to Meghan in May 2018.
Judging from the expressions of the royal family members attending the wedding, it is obvious that even at this point, they are still not optimistic about Harry and Meghan's marriage.
Queen Elizabeth, in particular, frowned. Perhaps the Queen had realized at this time that this would not be a good thing for the royal family.
A series of events that followed, including the Oprah interview, the publication of the book "The Spare Tire", the documentary "Harry and Meghan", etc., all damaged the reputation of the royal family and caused the relationship between Harry and other family members to be irreparable.
Looking back, when Harry and his wife Meghan appeared in the same frame recently, they almost always had expressionless faces and looked unhappy.
This is in stark contrast to the ever-bright smiles on Harry and Meghan's faces when they first got married.
Perhaps it was only at this time that Harry regretted not following the Queen's advice, but it seemed to be too late.
