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Find out what the woman who wrote the Duke of Sussex’s biography thinks Meghan has done to show she’s the boss of him.
Although Prince Harry and Meghan Markle planned for 2024 to be their “redemption year” and rebrand in a way that has nothing to do with the royal family, it isn’t off to a great start.
The Sussexes’ names are right back in the headlines with the prince’s relatives and this time staffers who worked for the late Queen Elizabeth II are calling the couple out over their past actions and claims. Now that some of what the duke and duchess have said and done since moving to America is back in the news, many experts are discussing who they think made the final decisions when it came to bashing the royals over again and giving their daughter the queen’s personal nickname.
Royal author explains how Meghan has proven ‘she’s in charge’ of Prince Harry
One of the commentators who has been speaking about the topic is Angela Levin. She spent time with the Duke of Sussex when she penned his biography Harry: A Biography of a Prince in 2018.
During an appearance on GB News, Levin talked about the mock curtsy Meghan did in the Netflix docuseries and noted that Harry didn’t look like he was on board with her making a joke about that.
“Harry’s face was just stricken,” show host Isabelle Webster recalled.
Levin agreed and added: “He didn’t stop it. Why didn’t he do anything to stop it? It shows you not just who is in charge. But [Meghan] doesn’t care what [Prince Harry] really thinks because he would be very hurt. He loved the queen.”
Duke’s biographer suspects Meghan was calling shots when it came to their daughter’s name too
Another topic that came up was what royal historian Robert Hardman wrote in his book titled Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.
Hardman detailed a conversation he had with one of Queen Elizabeth’s senior Palace staffers about the Sussexes’ story that they asked the queen for permission and received her blessing to give their daughter her childhood nickname.
According to the book, that staffer said that was not true and the queen was “as angry as I’d ever seen her” when Meghan and Harry started putting that out there. The Daily Mail reports that the late monarch’s aides told him the queen was saying: “I don’t own the palaces, I don’t own the paintings, the only thing I own is my name. And now they’ve taken that.”
The way she was feeling is reportedly why Buckingham Palace refused attempts by the Sussexes to confirm their version of events.
Levin opined that Meghan was pushing that name more than Harry and even claimed that the former Suits star had “copyrighted” Lilibet before she gave birth to their daughter.
Levin alleged: “Meghan, even before Lilibet was born, had taken out the names officially so that she could use them to buy things and to identify them … It’s Meghan trying to get her own back because she hated the fact that she wasn’t treated as she felt she should have been in the royal family.”
