Royal biographer Omid Scobie slammed a new claim that Queen Elizabeth II was upset with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for saying she had approved their daughter Princess Lilibet’s name.
“None of these Lilibet ‘revelations’ are doing the late Queen Elizabeth II any favours,” the “Endgame” author tweeted Tuesday.
Scobie backed up his post by including screenshots of an excerpt from famed writer Gyles Brandreth’ book “Elizabeth” that said the Queen viewed her great-granddaughter’s name as the “compliment it was intended to be.”
“Not only do they contradict details shared by the Palace with a cooperatively written biography in 2022 (see pic), they also depict the monarch in a way the public haven’t known her to be,” the “Finding Freedom” co-author continued.
Scobie’s tweet comes after a royal aide claimed in journalist Robert Hardman’s forthcoming book “Charles III” that the late monarch was “as angry as I’d ever seen her” when Harry and Markle publicly said she had approved the use of her childhood nickname for their daughter.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have not publicly responded to the aide’s claim, which comes more than a year after the Queen’s death.
Buckingham Palace also has not commented.
Sources previously told Pvnew that Harry, 39, had called his grandmother after Markle, 42, gave birth to Lilibet in 2021 to let her know of their planned tribute.
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“It will have likely been a call saying that she’s arrived and we’d plan to name her after you — it’s not really something one can say no to. I doubt they asked — more likely informed,” one insider told us at the time.
The couple, who married in 2018 and quit their royal duties in 2020, announced their now-2-year-old daughter’s name, Lilibet Diana, shortly after her arrival.
“Lili is named after her great-grandmother, Her Majesty The Queen, whose family nickname is Lilibet. Her middle name, Diana, was chosen to honor her beloved late grandmother, The Princess of Wales,” they shared in a statement at the time.
Harry and Markle also share 4-year-old son Prince Archie.
