{"id":227955,"date":"2025-07-01T00:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227955\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T00:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:45:18","slug":"prince-harry-and-queen-elizabeth-reportedly-had-a-tense-exchange-not-long-before-his-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/227955\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Harry and Queen Elizabeth Reportedly Had a Tense Exchange Not Long Before His Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Three months before his royal wedding in May 2018, Prince Harry and his grandmother Queen Elizabeth had a difficult exchange about the nuptials in February 2018.<\/li>\n<li>The intel comes from longtime royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith, who wrote about the moment in her Substack \u201cRoyals Extra.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Bedell Smith spoke with Lady Elizabeth Anson\u2014a cousin of Queen Elizabeth\u2019s\u2014about what allegedly transpired in that moment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> A royal biographer is shedding light on a moment of discord that <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/king-charles-checking-on-prince-harry-princess-eugenie-8735587\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> allegedly had with his grandmother, <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/queen-elizabeth-hated-tourists-smartphones-8727408\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth<\/a>, ahead of his May 19, 2018 wedding to <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/meghan-markle-power-suit-time-100-summit-nyc-appearance-11717859\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> In <a href=\"https:\/\/sallybedellsmith.substack.com\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her Substack \u201cRoyals Extra\u201d<\/a> (and via <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/06\/30\/royal-family\/exact-moment-prince-harry-blew-relationship-with-queen-elizabeth-ii-revealed\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Page Six<\/a>), veteran royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith wrote that Queen Elizabeth felt \u201cleft out\u201d of Harry\u2019s wedding plans, and that in February of 2018\u2014three months before the wedding\u2014the Duke of Sussex was reportedly \u201crude\u201d for \u201c10 minutes,\u201d leaving the Queen \u201cvery worried\u201d about him.\n<\/p>\n<p> Prince Harry on April 8, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_7-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The issue, Bedell Smith wrote, was that the Queen couldn\u2019t understand why Harry had asked the Archbishop of Canterbury to perform his and Meghan\u2019s wedding service at St. George\u2019s Chapel without first requesting permission from the Dean of Windsor. The Queen also couldn\u2019t understand why Meghan allegedly wouldn\u2019t share her wedding dress details with her prior to the big day.\n<\/p>\n<p> Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on their wedding day in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Bedell Smith added that the Queen was also bothered that Meghan and <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/prince-william-small-monarchy-fewer-working-royals-8666855\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> and <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/kate-middleton-fashion-5358845\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate Middleton<\/a> were \u201cnot working well together\u201d in the leadup to the nuptials.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Bedell Smith found out this information from her friend\u2014and the Queen\u2019s cousin\u2014Lady Elizabeth Anson, who died in 2020, two years before Queen Elizabeth\u2019s death at age 96 on September 8, 2022. The phone call took place in February 2019, one year after the alleged incident took place.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The good news? The Queen and Harry \u201cpatched things up\u201d after their February tiff in April 2018, ahead of the wedding the next month.\n<\/p>\n<p> Queen Elizabeth and Prince Harry.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_17-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> For his part, Harry fiercely defended his wife of seven years over the weekend, speaking at the 2025 Nexus Global Summit in New York City on June 27 and pointing out that Meghan was the \u201cmost trolled person in the world\u201d in 2018\u2014the same year they married.\n<\/p>\n<p> Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on August 15, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cOne of the reasons why the digital world was so important to us is because my wife, in 2018, was the most trolled person in the world,\u201d he said while speaking about <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/06\/28\/celebrity-news\/prince-harry-says-meghan-markle-was-most-trolled-person-in-the-world-during-surprise-appearance-in-new-york\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how to combat social isolation online<\/a> for \u201ca better future for 2025 and beyond.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> He added that \u201cThere was a lived experience,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14855985\/Prince-Harry-Meghan-trolled-person-world.html\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three months before his royal wedding in May 2018, Prince Harry and his grandmother Queen Elizabeth had a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-227955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-royal","9":"tag-royal-families","10":"tag-royal-family","11":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227955","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=227955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}