Prince Harry was ‘kept in the dark’ about the Queen’s health in the hours before she died, the royal biographer has claimed.
Omid Scobie, a close friend of the Duke of Sussex, said Harry and his wife Meghan Markle “had no idea” the royal family was preparing for his grandmother’s death last year.
Mr Scobie’s claims come amid a deepening rift between Prince Harry and his brother Prince William and their father, King Charles, following his explosive allegations in his memoir Spare.
The Duke of Sussex was very close to his grandmother, but reportedly had ‘no idea’ that the royal family was preparing for her final hours.
In an excerpt from Endgame, that has been shared with PeopleScobie wrote: ‘The next morning, the Sussexes had no idea that Buckingham Palace was already planning for the Queen’s final hours and the first days of the new era of the monarchy – until the Duke’s phone started ringing. An unknown number. Most of the time he ignored them.’
Omid Scobie, a close friend of the Duke of Sussex, said Harry and his wife Meghan Markle “had no idea” the royal family was preparing for his grandmother’s death last year
Meghan told her husband to answer the phone and he accepted the call “just before it stopped,” the author wrote.
He continued: ‘Harry hadn’t spoken much to his father that year, but this was not the time for father-and-son tensions. Charles told him that he and Camilla were about to leave Dumfries House for Balmoral, where Princess Anne was already at the Queen’s side. He told Harry to go to Scotland at once.’