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Meghan WAS banned from Balmoral after Queen’s death

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SnottyLottie · 05/01/2023 20:48

In his book, Harry also claims that his father told him that Meghan should not come to Balmoral. The Queen was staying at her Scottish estate when she died last September.

The prince wrote: "Then my father called again. He told me I was welcome at Balmoral, but… without her. He started to explain his reasons, but they didn't make any sense at all, and it was disrespectful as well. I did not tolerate it from him.

"Don't even think about talking about my wife like that.

"Repentant, he said, stammering, that he simply didn't want the place to be full of people. Nobody's wife was going to go, not even Kate, he told me, so Meg shouldn't either."

source: news.sky.com/story/prince-harry-asked-his-father-not-to-marry-camilla-as-moment-he-was-told-about-his-mothers-car-accident-revealed-in-book-12780602

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jazzybelle · 05/01/2023 21:55

Did the arguing about whether Meghan should go delay the flight that William, Andrew and the others were on? Should Harry have been on that flight but had to taken a later scheduled flight?

steff13 · 05/01/2023 21:55

BradfordGirl · 05/01/2023 20:52

How is it sensible? When my DHs grandmother died partners were welcome. That is usual.

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Were they likely to use the death in a tell-all book and Netflix series?

Proudofitbabe · 05/01/2023 21:55

Good grief. That spoilt fool is going to bury himself with this book.

fancyacuppatea · 05/01/2023 21:55

bestchristmasever · 05/01/2023 21:50

That's what I heard/read somewhere.

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Thinking back to a photo I saw of them walking behind Diana...Charles, Harry, Earl Spencer and the Duke of Edinburgh were all walking with their heads "up" more...William was very much head bowed, almost (and very much understandably) hiding behind his fringe.
Completely makes sense, then, that it was William that was reluctant.

Boulshired · 05/01/2023 21:55

He would have had more of a point if the other grand children were going to Balmoral never mind with their partners, but nonetheless who would argue this, it was siblings at my DMs and the same for my partners parents. To include it in his book just seems like an own goal.

Nanalisa60 · 05/01/2023 21:55

They had all bloody summer to go to Balmoral, the Queen invited all her children and grandchildren and beloved members of her family and friends to visit her, in her final summer, don’t tell me they did not know how little time the Queen had left. But no they did not bother . So why would the family want Megan to come up on her death bed.

JanusTheFirst · 05/01/2023 21:56

It was clear at the time that wives weren't going. Why Harry thought Meghan should when Kate wasn't is a mystery.

His moaning on is why he got there too late.

LondonJax · 05/01/2023 21:58

My question would be why Meghan wanted to be there anyway? According to H & M 'someone' in the RF was racist towards her and their children. So why would you want to spend any more time with them than you have to? Oh wait...more stuff for Netflix. Of course. Those two would sell their soul to the devil if they thought they could make it a story about them.

And Harry wants sympathy?

custardbear · 05/01/2023 21:58

FFS of course she wasn't welcome to be at QE dying bedside! It was close close family only. By that point MM had trashed the RF along with PH. I can see why PH was allowed to go as he's family, albeit ashamedly so, after his antics, but MM is a disgrace and QE had every right to die in peace without gatecrashing MM, who was likely to 'wow' on camera and sell the whole event!

I can see why PW told the jet to leave without PH too if he was being brattiah about his puppet master allowing to be in tow ... probably with some sort of camera
Person knowing these two and their organised narrative collecting methods. I'm sorry PH wasn't there in time, not that being in that her would have helped but still his antics should resonate with him ... I fear he's a bit too dim to comprehend though

Merrymouse · 05/01/2023 21:59

I thought it was generally recognised at the time that it would be too awkward for the D of S to be there, so other spouses stayed away too.

However it also just seems sensible in a family with 4 adult children and 8 adult grandchildren.

Wonnle · 05/01/2023 21:59

Coxspurplepippin · 05/01/2023 21:43

Tony Blair and Harry. Prince Philip very viscerally told Tony Blair to fuck off when he wanted Harry and William to come back to London in the wake of their mother's death.

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Anyone who told Blair to fuck off can't be all bad !

Wonnle · 05/01/2023 22:00

LondonJax · 05/01/2023 21:58

My question would be why Meghan wanted to be there anyway? According to H & M 'someone' in the RF was racist towards her and their children. So why would you want to spend any more time with them than you have to? Oh wait...more stuff for Netflix. Of course. Those two would sell their soul to the devil if they thought they could make it a story about them.

And Harry wants sympathy?

No he wants MONEY MONEY and more MONEY
Or so his missus tells him

Calmdown14 · 05/01/2023 22:00

I can't believe she needed to be banned.
It should have been obvious that she took a step back here.

I'm incredibly close to my in laws but I would completely understand if on her death bed my mother in law wants only her children (and here we are talking about grandchildren and a spouse who was hardly in the bosom of the family).

Coxspurplepippin · 05/01/2023 22:04

Wonnle, here you go

independent

ajandjjmum · 05/01/2023 22:04

Coxspurplepippin · 05/01/2023 21:46

Maireas, I think the general consensus is that Harry wanted to walk behind his mother's coffin, William didn't. Prince Philip told William he would support William and Harry if they walked behind the coffin by walking with them, which he obviously did.

That's exactly what I remember.

LuluBlakey1 · 05/01/2023 22:04

Quite right that she was not allowed. Look at the state of relations between her and Harry's family. Kate, future Queen, was not there, Camilla, future Queen, was at Birkhall. Why do they think Megan had any right to be there or would be wanted in those awful circumstances there? Do neither of them ever consider any one else's feelings? For Harry to be difficult with his father at the time the Queen was dying is shocking.

DorritLittle · 05/01/2023 22:05

BradfordGirl · 05/01/2023 20:51

I remember that.

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I remember too, people were being ridiculed for knowing people who knew the RF!

Nanalisa60 · 05/01/2023 22:05

None of them were there in time, the Queen died before the plane had landed In Aberdeen, they might have got there in time if they had not been waiting for PH who was refusing to come with out the puppet master.

in the end PW just told them to leave without him because at the end of the day they wanted to get to Balmoral that what was important, not argueing with the two twatts.

LuluBlakey1 · 05/01/2023 22:07

Merrymouse · 05/01/2023 21:59

I thought it was generally recognised at the time that it would be too awkward for the D of S to be there, so other spouses stayed away too.

However it also just seems sensible in a family with 4 adult children and 8 adult grandchildren.

No, Kate had already said she was not going, nor were any of the grandchildren apart from William and Harry. I am not sure why Harry was going anyway- he is no different to Beatrice, Eugenie or the others.

hobbledyhoy · 05/01/2023 22:09

General decency and decorum would dictate that you voluntarily step back from a situation to allow your OH/friend/family member that is closest to the dying relative to be near them and support in whatever way they can, allowing them to come to terms with what's happening. Whether your granny is the Queen or not, the same still applies.

It reads to me as many others have said, that he's being fed/believes these ideas that she should be involved in everything and sees discrimination solely on the basis that she is not invited to events that don't concern her.

I have a terrible feeling in a few years when this money-making train has reached its end, Meghan will alight and he's left in the shit with some serious mental health issues and no family to support him.

Luredbyapomegranate · 05/01/2023 22:09

Legrandetraitor · 05/01/2023 20:49

I knew this at the time via a connection and I told everyone under a different username and everyone laughed and called me a liar!!!!!

I dunno why.

I mean why would he bring her? She hardly knew the Queen. If his father thought the was planning it I’m sure he was told not to.

Refreshmentsanyone · 05/01/2023 22:11

My son is very close to his granny but frankly it would bit mawkish to have him by her bedside let alone his partner. Surely the point is to tell someone you love them before they go and to provide support for other family members when they do pass on. Meghan couldn’t do either of those things
As posters have said they both could have visited her or at least respected she was in her final years. But no, it’s more important they told their story and made her family all about them.

Bagsundermyeyestoday · 05/01/2023 22:12

Volkswagenitalia · 05/01/2023 21:46

Harry surely wasn't surprised that they didn't want Meghan there? The Queen had just died, the absolute last thing anyone needed was the awkwardness that Meghans presence would bring - and why would she want to be there anyway?!

And Harry seems to lack any empathy at all in that extract, it's always about him and his feelings and how everyone is so awful to him isn't it? Zero self awareness there all!

This 💯
Read the room Harry! 🤨

ajandjjmum · 05/01/2023 22:12

If the plane with William, the Wessexes and Andrew on was sat on the tarmac waiting for Harry for 1 hr +, with them on board, it would mean that they could have arrived in time to be with their mother/grandmother as she passed. I would never be able to forgive Harry his for awful behaviour under those circumstances.

bellswithwhistles · 05/01/2023 22:13

The king was grieving - for his mother. If my Dad had just lost his mother, I wouldn't go up with my DH either. It's not my DH's Grandma!

Honestly. I am so so done with Prince Harry now. The man needs therapy. He is just making himself look worse and worse with every thing he says.

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