Brooke Boney calls out problem in Prince Harry’s account of ‘Sandringham Summit’

Channel Nine presenter Brooke Boney has questioned Prince Harry’s account of the so-called ‘Sandringham Summit’, after he claimed the late Queen was sidelined in discussion of her future in the Royal Family.

The Queen summoned the Duke of Sussex, her brother Prince William and now King Charles to her Norfolk estate on January 13, 2020 to try to resolve the ‘Megxit’ crisis, which had erupted days earlier when Harry and his wife Meghan Markle announced her decision to ‘step back’ as royals.

It was ultimately decided that Harry and Meghan could not be half in and half out, leading to their exile to California, with Harry later saying the Queen had “silently”. [sat] there’ while William ‘shouted’ at her and her father said things that were ‘not true’.

Speaking in today’s program On Tuesday, Boney resisted the suggestion that the Queen had been a bystander during the Megxit talks given her status as head of the Royal Family.

Today, presenter Brooke Boney (centre, with Alex Cullen, left, and Russell Myers, right) questioned Prince Harry’s account of the so-called “Sandringham Summit”, after he claimed that the late Queen was left out of the discussion about his future in the Royal Family

He asked the royal editor of The Daily Mirror, Russell Myers: “So if the Queen, the monarch, isn’t in charge of the shop, who is?”

Myers agreed that it was surprising to hear Harry describe his grandmother, who had been on the throne for 66 years at the time, as a “side player” in the biggest crisis to hit the royal family since the death of Princess Diana.

‘That’s a great question, isn’t it?’ Myers said. “Just last week, Harry said that during the Sandringham Summit, where everyone came together to discuss this deal so that Harry and Meghan could leave the Royal Family, he said that the Queen was practically sitting there as a bit player.

‘And it was his brother yelling at him from across the table [and] Charles sitting there complaining a bit about the situation.

‘So what is it? Was the queen a scapegoat in her last days? Or was she the store manager, the one running the show?

The Queen summoned the Royal Family to her Norfolk estate on January 13, 2020 to try to resolve the ‘Megxit’ crisis, which had erupted days earlier when Harry and his wife Meghan Markle announced their decision to ‘step back’ ‘ like royals. Since then, Harry has claimed the Queen “quietly [sat] there’ while his brother William ‘shouted’ at him and his father Charles said things that were ‘not true’. (Pictured: The Queen and Harry at the wedding of Lady Gabriella Windsor and Thomas Kingston in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, on May 18, 2019)

‘Harry can’t have everything his way. And I have sense throughout the book of him. [Spare] and interviews, you really get into trouble for trying to tell “your truth.” And it’s only one side of the story, and because the royal family isn’t going to hit back, that’s all we’re going to hear.”

The Duke of Sussex claimed in his Netflix docuseries that the late monarch watched in silence as William left him terrified and yelled about exit talks she had called after Harry and Meghan’s decision to step back from their royal duties.

He said: “It was terrifying to see my brother yell and yell at me, and my father say things that just weren’t true, and my grandmother, you know, sitting quietly and taking it all in.”

At the time, royal experts said any suggestion that “the Queen was sidelined” at the now notorious “Sandringham Summit” was “utter nonsense”.

Harry doubled down on his version of events in his interview with Good Morning America host Michael Strahan (right) on Monday. ‘[The Queen] I knew what was going on. She knew how difficult it was. I don’t know if she was in a position to be able to change it,” she said.

Harry doubled down on his version of events in his interview with Good Morning America host Michael Strahan on the final leg of his transatlantic television blitz to promote his new memoir, Spare, due out this week.

Strahan asked if His Majesty, who died in September at 96, was “upset with you” for walking away from royal duties to his American wife in early 2020.

‘So that?’ Harry responded, adding her grandmother was ‘sad’ by what happened.

Boney (pictured at the ARIA Awards in Sydney on November 24) asked The Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers: “So if the Queen, the monarch, isn’t running the shop, then who is? ?”

“I had many, many conversations with her both in the UK over the years and in the lead up to this change, so it was never a surprise to anyone, least of all her,” he said.

But hinting that she was sidelined, she continued: ‘She knew what was going on. She knew how difficult she was. I don’t know if she was in a position to be able to change it.

Harry also admitted that as his book comes out, the divide between him and his family “couldn’t be greater.”

Myers (pictured) agreed that it was surprising to hear Harry describe his grandmother, who had been on the throne for 66 years at the time, as a “side player” in the biggest crisis to hit the family royal since the death of the princess. Diana