{"id":326752,"date":"2025-08-08T02:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326752\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T02:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:30:17","slug":"queen-elizabeth-was-badly-advised-on-megxit-and-made-huge-mistake-royals-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/326752\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth was \u2018badly advised\u2019 on Megxit and made \u2018huge mistake\u2019 &#8211; Royals &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Late-Queen-with-Harry-and-Meghan-at-Palace-412756.jpg\" class=\"zoomEnabled\" data-img=\"https:\/\/cdn-images.the-express.com\/img\/dynamic\/14\/1200x712\/secondary\/Late-Queen-with-Harry-and-Meghan-at-Palace-412756.jpg?r=1754597830473\" alt=\"Late Queen with Harry and Meghan at Palace \" title=\"Late Queen with Harry and Meghan at Palace \" width=\"590\" height=\"414\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meghan hit it off with the Queen at first, but then things changed, it&#8217;s been said (Image: Getty Images )<\/p>\n<p>When <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Prince Harry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/prince-harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> went to his grandmother with a request, asking that he be able to pull back on his royal duties, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Queen Elizabeth II\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/queen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a>&#8216;s answer was \u201cno,\u201d which one royal expert believes to have been a mistake.<\/p>\n<p data-mce-linkchecker-status=\"valid\">Former royal photographer Ian Pelham Turner, <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/news\/royals\/163356\/prince-charles-jealous-princess-diana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who worked at the Palace back in the day<\/a>, doesn\u2019t blame the late Queen, he believes she was ill-advised.<\/p>\n<p>When speaking<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/news\/royals\/178425\/King-Charles-william-harry-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> to Mr Pelham Turner<\/a> over Zoom, he said: \u201cI think old style thinking is where we\u2019ve got this situation now, think the Queen was very badly advised, I really do, I think the Queen was very badly advised over Harry and Meghan,\u201d referring to the Sussexes resigning from their roles as senior working members of the royal family and moving to the US in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>While looking backwards and talking about what went wrong won\u2019t change anything, it may help with moving forward, that members of the <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"British Royal Family\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/british-royal-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Family<\/a> may be looking at the decision in the same way and may be open for reconcilation, suggests Pelham Turner.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI wonder, whether or not, on reflection, what had happened when the Queen was alive, and Meghan really didn\u2019t feel wanted in Britain, in any way, shape or form, this is the allegation, that perhaps they\u2019ve had a reflecting on that period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harry has been gone for five years<\/p>\n<p>Harry\u2019s been gone for five years, living in the US with his wife and two children. Now, there\u2019s talk of the Duke wanting to reconcile with his estranged family and spend more time in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>We asked the royal commentator about Harry, and if he does want to go home with him, providing a one-word answer, simply saying: \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, there are a lot of moving parts, and it\u2019s not as simple as getting on a plane and showing up at the Palace. It\u2019s a matter of whether or not Harry would be welcomed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"withoutCaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Harry-and-Queen-Elizabeth-at-Chelsea-Flower-Show-412772.jpg\" class=\"zoomEnabled\" data-img=\"https:\/\/cdn-images.the-express.com\/img\/dynamic\/14\/1200x712\/secondary\/Harry-and-Queen-Elizabeth-at-Chelsea-Flower-Show-412772.jpg?r=1754597830488\" alt=\"Harry and Queen Elizabeth at Chelsea Flower Show\" title=\"Harry and Queen Elizabeth at Chelsea Flower Show\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Royal expert believes someone was in the Queen&#8217;s ear about Prince Harry and she was being ill-advise (Image: Getty Images )<\/p>\n<p>Charles wants Harry, Meghan and the children back in with him<\/p>\n<p>Pelham Turner believes Charles does want Harry and Meghan and the children back in England with him.<\/p>\n<p>The royal expert said: \u201cWhat I do believe, from what we\u2019re hearing behind the scenes, right now, is that, I feel personally, is that Charles wants to see Harry and Meghan back, and the children, because he\u2019s very sentimental, you know, he\u2019s very much a family person.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cAnd, it must be annoying for him, because they\u2019re all growing up \u2014 and there\u2019s nothing wrong with American accents, don\u2019t get me wrong \u2014 they\u2019re all growing up with American accents now, and, I think, it\u2019s part of his family, he\u2019s a grandfather to these children, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON&#8217;T MISS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Harry wasn\u2019t asking for all that much<\/p>\n<p>Pelham Turner backtracks a bit to explain what he thinks made the Queen say what she did, that Harry and Meghan couldn\u2019t be half in, half out.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI think old style thinking is where we\u2019ve got this situation now, I think the Queen was very badly advised, I really do, I think the Queen was very badly advised over Harry and Meghan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also explained what Harry and Meghan were hoping to do and that it wasn\u2019t unheard of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the reality is, what Harry and Meghan wanted to do, because they felt like they couldn\u2019t live full-time in Britain, for whatever the reasons were, that they wanted to still do charity work, in Britain, and they wanted to do half and half.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meghan hit it off with the Queen at first, but then things changed, it&#8217;s been said (Image: Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,518,1281,447,532,1763,5105,7710,519,448],"class_list":{"0":"post-326752","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-king-charles-iii","10":"tag-meghan-markle","11":"tag-prince-harry","12":"tag-prince-william","13":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","14":"tag-royal","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114990797893809197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326752","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=326752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}