A book from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s unofficial biographer Omid Scobie made a number of bombshell claims.
Prince Harry was not informed about the late Queen Elizabeth’s declining health, it was claimed (Image: Getty)
Prince Harry was not informed about the late Queen Elizabeth II’s declining health and had “no idea” that the royals were preparing to say their goodbyes in her final hours, a bombshell book has claimed.
The monarch died aged 96 on September 8, 2022 at Balmoral Castle with her death officially announced to the world at 6.30pm – just hours before the Duke of Sussex was able to touch down in Aberdeen.
But Endgame – the explosive book from Harry and Meghan Markle’s unofficial biographer Omid Scobie – claimed Buckingham Palace kept him in the dark about the Queen’s rapidly declining health.
Scobie wrote: “The Sussexes had no idea that Buckingham Palace was already planning for the Queen’s final hours and the first days of the monarchy’s new era – until the duke’s phone started ringing.
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“An unknown number. He usually ignored those.”
Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8, 2022 aged 96 (Image: Getty)
According to the author, it was Meghan who urged her husband to accept the call, which was his father King Charles telling him they were on their way to Balmoral to meet Princess Anne, who was already by the Queen’s side.
Charles then urged his son to rush to Scotland as soon as possible.
Just months later in January 2023, Harry’s memoir Spare was released and in the book, he claimed the King told him not to bring Meghan because it “didn’t make any sense” – leaving the Duke extremely frustrated.
He wrote: “Regretful, [King Charles] stammered that he simply didn’t want it to fill up with people.
Prince Harry claimed King Charles told him not to bring Meghan because it ‘didn’t make any sense’ (Image: Getty)
“Nobody’s wife was going, not even Kate, he told me, so Meg shouldn’t either.”
By the time Harry’s plane landed, the prince recalled getting the news that his grandmother had already died.
“When the plane started to descend I saw that my phone lit up. It was a message from Meg: ‘Call me when you get this’”, he wrote.
“I looked at the BBC website. My grandmother had died. My father was King.”
