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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s claim that Queen Elizabeth II gave her blessing for their daughter to be named Lilibet—the late queen’s pet name based on her childhood mispronunciation of ‘Elizabeth’— so infuriated the monarch that one source described her as being “as angry as I’d ever seen her” as a result.
The revelation is made in a new book, Charles III: New King, New Court. The Inside Story by the esteemed royal writer Robert Hardman, and sheds new light on the bizarre row that developed after the queen’s team denied she had given her approval for the name to the BBC, only for Harry and Meghan’s team to insist she had.
As The Daily Beast revealed at the time, newspapers were threatened with legal action by Harry and Meghan if they repeated the BBC claims, but the threat was never actioned.