Regardless of fresh claims on the contrary, the overdue Queen Elizabeth II did approve of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle naming their daughter Lilibet.
“Meghan and Harry 100 percent got permission from the queen to use the name Lilibet,” a supply completely tells Us Weekly.
Eyebrows have been raised after a former member of the queen’s team of workers claimed that Elizabeth, who died at age 96 in September 2022, was once “as angry as I’d ever seen her” after Harry, 39, and Meghan, 42, publicly claimed that they consulted with the monarch earlier than naming their now 2-year-old daughter.
The allegation was once made in Robert Hardman’s upcoming e book, Charles III: New King. New Courtroom. The Inside of Tale, which hits cabinets later this month and is these days being excerpted within the Day by day Mail.
“The report is not true. [Harry and Meghan] don’t know where this is coming from,” the insider tells Us of the allegation. “They’re shocked that this is coming now; it seems out of nowhere and out of left field. They just feel like it’s more of the same spear campaign that continues against them.”
The supply provides that “multiple people are aware” that Harry and Meghan, who additionally percentage son Archie, 4, were given Elizabeth’s blessing for his or her daughter’s moniker.
“They feel it’s convenient [that] this is surfacing now when the queen is not here to defend herself and can’t say what is true or false,” the insider stocks.
Royal biographer Omid Scobie, who cowrote the e book Discovering Freedom about Harry and Meghan’s 2020 step down from their senior royal tasks, has additionally close down the declare that the couple’s child identify brought about drama within the royal circle of relatives.
“None of these Lilibet ‘revelations’ are doing the late Queen Elizabeth II any favours,” he wrote by the use of X on Tuesday, January 16. “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.”
Scobie integrated screenshots of a Day by day Mail excerpt from Gyles Brandreth’s 2022 e book, Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait, that mentioned Elizabeth seen her great-granddaughter’s identify as “the compliment it was intended to be.”
Upon saying Lilibet’s beginning in June 2021, Harry and Meghan famous by the use of their Archewell site that they selected the moniker as a nod to Elizabeth’s “family nickname.” A supply completely instructed Us on the time that the identify had “always” been Harry and Meghan’s favourite possibility.
“It was important for them that the queen signed off though, and that didn’t happen until right before the birth. They both agreed it would only be right if Her Majesty gave her approval, especially with something so personal,” the insider endured.
Lilibet — whose heart identify is Diana in honor of Harry’s overdue mom, Princess Diana — was once born in California after Harry and Meghan stepped down as senior royals and relocated to the US in 2020. Archie, in the meantime, was once born in London in 2019.