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Meghan Markle delivers a speech as she launches the Smart Works capsule collection on September 12, 2019; (Inset) Queen Elizabeth prepares to greet Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev at Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n
May 30 2025, Published 8:55 a.m. ET<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Meghan Markle recently wrapped the first season of her podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder. In the final episode, she took a subtle dig<\/a> at the late Queen Elizabeth by advising expectant mothers to avoid asking others\u2019 opinions when choosing baby names. The remark caught the attention of royal watchers as, following the birth of Princess Lilibet, reports emerged that the late Queen was \u2018furious\u2019 when Markle and Harry named their child after her without her consent.<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In the episode, the Duchess of Sussex explored the importance of trusting one\u2019s instincts while conversing with Spanx founder Sara Blakely. As reported by the Daily Express,<\/a> Markle advised her listeners that instincts work the same for naming a child as it does for naming a company. She said, \u201cI will say this to every woman in the world or every person in the world who\u2019s gonna have a child, if you have an idea of what you\u2019re gonna name that baby, you keep it so close to your heart until that baby is born and it\u2019s named. Don\u2019t ask anyone\u2019s opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n The advice, however, was seen as a thinly veiled dig at Queen Elizabeth, re-opening the conflicting narrative around Lilibet’s naming. The Duke and Duchess claimed that they had gotten the Queen\u2019s permission to name their daughter after her, but reports said otherwise. In Robert Hardman\u2019s biography, Charles III: New King, New Court, he claimed that the late Queen was ‘furious’<\/a> when the Sussexes chose the name ‘Lilibet\u2019, a nickname that had always been hers. The Queen allegedly said, \u201cThe only thing I own is my name. And now they\u2019ve taken that.\u201d Sources also told the author that while the Queen was consulted, she was hesitant to decline their request.<\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Meanwhile, as reported by the BBC<\/a>, a spokesperson for the couple said at the time, \u201cThe Duke spoke with his family before the announcement; in fact, his grandmother was the first family member he called. During that conversation, he expressed their hope to name their daughter Lilibet in her honor.\u201d Royal expert Angela Levin, however, asserted that Markle had trademarked the name even before her daughter was born, which allegedly angered the Queen.<\/a><\/p>\n Article continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Despite the fiasco surrounding Lilibet\u2019s birth, in June 2021, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced the arrival of their baby girl, Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. They said in a statement, \u201cLili is named after her great-grandmother, Her Majesty The Queen, whose family nickname is Lilibet.\u201d According to Hello! magazine<\/a>, Queen Elizabeth\u2019s parents and grandparents, affectionately called her \u2018Lilibet\u2019 because she couldn\u2019t pronounce her name. Later, her late husband, Prince Philip, lovingly used the nickname for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Getty Images | Mark Large – WPA Pool; (Inset) Chris Jackson – WPA Pool Meghan Markle delivers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,1501,7720,1281,447,7710,519,2417,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-144269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-duchess-of-sussex","10":"tag-duke-of-sussex","11":"tag-harry","12":"tag-latest-news","13":"tag-meghan","14":"tag-meghan-markle","15":"tag-prince-harry","16":"tag-royal-families","17":"tag-royal-family","18":"tag-the-queen","19":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114597160807384558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}