{"id":323046,"date":"2025-08-06T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323046\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:22:18","slug":"the-queens-upset-and-random-remark-about-prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323046\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen&#8217;s &#8216;upset&#8217; and &#8216;random&#8217; remark about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen was &#8220;upset&#8221;&#8216; at the couple&#8217;s guest list for the event and the pair inviting &#8220;random&#8221; celebrities instead of Royal Family members.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_meghan.jpg\" alt=\"The Queen's 'upset' and 'random' remark about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s wedding\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The Queen&#8217;s &#8216;upset&#8217; and &#8216;random&#8217; remark about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s wedding<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An &#8220;upset&#8221; Queen made a cutting remark about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry&#8217;s wedding. <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/the-queen\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">The Queen<\/a> was &#8220;upset&#8221;&#8216; at the couple&#8217;s guest list for the event and the pair inviting &#8220;random&#8221; celebrities instead of <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/royal-family\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Family<\/a> members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Sally Bedell Smith, a royal biographer, said the queen reportedly said: &#8220;But it&#8217;s my house &#8211; and I\u2019m paying for it.&#8221; She was also said to have been &#8220;annoyed&#8221; when the pair went directly to the Archbishop of Canterbury to ask him to marry them in St George&#8217;s Chapel in May 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Bedell Smith told American royal commentator Kinsey Schofield: &#8220;Harry and Meghan just disinvited or didn&#8217;t invite a whole group of family and cousins. The children of the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent and of the Gloucesters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/cost-of-living\/warning-68-million-bank-account-32207352\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">READ MORE Warning for 68 million bank account holders who must shift &#8216;some&#8217; of cash now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;She [Meghan] and Harry just &#8216;exed&#8217; them out of the guest list and they added all these other random people who barely even knew the Royal Family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;That was just yet another irritation for the Queen.&#8221; She said that as the wedding approached the queen began to feel &#8220;very worried&#8221; privately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Harry and Meghan wed in 2018, and the guest list included famous faces and names like David Beckham and wife Victoria, as well as George Clooney and wife Amal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Speaking out, Ms Bedell Smith says concerns were raised that Harry was \u201cbesotted and weak about women.&#8221; Lady Anson reportedly told Bedell Smith about Meghan: &#8220;We hope but don\u2019t quite think she is in love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We think she engineered it all.\u201d Meghan shot to fame on US legal drama Suits, before finding love with Harry, the younger son of future King, Charles III.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Ms Bedell Smith wrote on her Substack: &#8220;By late February 2019 when Lady Anson and I spoke on the phone, she said &#8216;I don\u2019t trust Meghan an inch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;To begin with, she was not bad\u2014a straightforward starlet, used to public speaking and charity work. The wedge between the brothers is really too bad.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queen was &#8220;upset&#8221;&#8216; at the couple&#8217;s guest list for the event and the pair inviting &#8220;random&#8221; celebrities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7721,7719,7718,7720,1281,447,7710,519,2417,7711],"class_list":{"0":"post-323046","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-meghan","13":"tag-meghan-markle","14":"tag-prince-harry","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-the-queen","18":"tag-uk-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114982980479350332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323046","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=323046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}