{"id":231873,"date":"2025-07-02T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231873\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:30:21","slug":"tensions-between-queen-elizabeth-ii-prince-harry-before-wedding-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231873\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensions between Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Harry before wedding revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                \t                                        \t\t                                        \tTensions between Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Harry before wedding revealed                                        \t                                        <\/p>\n<p>New claims have emerged about the strained relationship between Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Harry in the lead-up to his 2018 wedding to Meghan Markle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to royal author Sally Bedell Smith, the late Queen&#8217;s cousin, Lady Elizabeth Anson, shared behind-the-scenes details about the royal family&#8217;s concerns regarding the couple&#8217;s union.<\/p>\n<p>Lady Anson reportedly told Smith that the Queen was &#8220;very worried&#8221; about Harry&#8217;s decisions regarding the wedding, particularly when he asked the Archbishop of Canterbury to perform the ceremony without consulting the Dean of Windsor first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This move allegedly &#8220;blew&#8221; Harry&#8217;s relationship with his grandmother, with the Queen feeling &#8220;dismayed&#8221; and &#8220;really upset&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Queen&#8217;s concerns also extended to Meghan&#8217;s behaviour and intentions. Lady Anson claimed that the Queen thought Meghan had &#8220;engineered&#8221; the relationship with Harry, rather than being genuinely in love.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harry is besotted and weak about women,&#8221; Lady Anson said. &#8220;We hope, but don&#8217;t quite think she is in love. We think she engineered it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the tension, Harry and the Queen reportedly &#8220;patched things up&#8221; after he shared more details about his wedding plans with her. However, concerns about Meghan&#8217;s suitability for Harry persisted, with Lady Anson warning that &#8220;it&#8217;s worrying that so many people are questioning whether Meghan is right for Harry. The problem, bless his heart, is that Harry is neither bright nor strong, and she is both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story also highlights the rocky start to Meghan&#8217;s relationship with Kate Middleton, particularly over a disagreement about bridesmaids&#8217; dresses before the wedding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Queen was reportedly worried about the relationship between Meghan, Kate, and Prince William, fearing they wouldn&#8217;t be able to work together effectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been contacted for comment, with a source close to the couple dismissing the claims as &#8220;just gossip.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tensions between Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Harry before wedding revealed New claims have emerged about the strained relationship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-231873","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":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114783415377103672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231873","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=231873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}