The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have claimed the institution “blocked” Prince Harry from seeing his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, after they decided to step back as senior royals.
The final three episodes of their Netflix series, “Harry & Meghan,” which dropped on Thursday, contain a number of references to the late monarch.
In episode five, Harry recalls that he and Meghan were planning to fly back to the U.K. from Canada for a visit in early 2020 and the queen told him she had no plans all week so they could go for tea and stay the night.
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Meghan said: “We’re flying back from Vancouver straight to Heathrow and right as we’re getting on the plane this urgent message comes through to H, saying: ’You are not allowed to go and see Her Majesty.
“Make sure that your principal is aware he cannot go and see her. She’s busy. She has plans all week.’”
Harry told the camera: “I was like ‘Well, that’s certainly the opposite to what she had told me.’”
“Once we were back in the UK, I rang her and said ‘We’re now told that you’re busy.’
“And she said ‘Yes. I didn’t know that I was busy. I’ve now been told I’m busy all week. I’ve actually been told I’m busy all week.’ I was like ‘Wow.’”
Meghan added: “I remember looking at H and thinking ’My gosh. This is when a family and a family business are in direct conflict because they’re blocking you from seeing the Queen, but what they’re really doing is blocking a grandson from seeing his grandmother.”
Harry also denied claims he “blindsided” the queen with the couple’s social media statement on stepping back as senior royals, dubbed Megxit by some in the press.
Meghan said that, as they suspected contents from Harry’s letter to his father had been leaked, they could “could feel the ticking clock from that point”.
She added: “So with our team we decided that we were going to put out a statement to say that we were going to, sadly, be stepping back, not stepping down, but to just have a reduced role.”
Harry added: “For my whole life the purse strings have been controlled by my father. Within a family, it’s normal to have that financial control…
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