Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's reaction to Lilibet baby name row explained
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been left shocked following reports claiming that the late Queen was left "furious" after they named their daughter after her, and insisted they asked her for permission, a source has said.
In June 2021, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced that their newborn daughter would be given the late monarch's childhood family nickname as a first name, and Diana as a second name in tribute to Harry's late mum. A spokesperson for Harry and Meghan insisted at the time that the duke spoke to his grandmother in advance and would not have used the name had the monarch not been supportive.
However, in his new biography King Charles, royal author Robert Hardman alleges the late Queen was furious over Harry and Meghan's decision to call their daughter Lilibet in 2021, and their claim they asked for her permission. According to the author, the late Queen was so upset by the situation, she told her aides: "I don't own the palaces, I don't own the paintings, the only thing I own is my name. And now they've taken that."
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Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born in June 2021 (Misan Harriman/Duke and Duchess of Sussex HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
Harry kissing his daughter Lilibet (Netflix)But an insider said the Sussexes are reportedly shocked at the latest claims, and insist the allegations made in the book are not true, according to the Express. They said: "Meghan and Harry 100 percent got permission from the Queen to use the name Lilibet. The report is not true."
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The insider added that Harry and Meghan believe this is all part of a "smear campaign" against them and it is "convenient" that the reports emerged now that the Queen is no longer around to defend herself and confirm or deny the claims. They continued: "They don't know where this is coming from.
"They are 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 smear campaign that continues against them.
"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." Lilibet was first used when Princess Elizabeth was just a toddler and unable to pronounce her own name properly.
Her grandfather King George V would affectionately call her Lilibet imitating her own attempts to say Elizabeth. The sweet nickname stuck and she became Lilibet to her family from then on.
Harry and Meghan’s youngest child, now a princess following the accession of her grandfather, was born in California on June 4, 2021. She arrived two months after the death of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh and in the wake of controversial claims levelled at the monarchy by the Sussexes in their bombshell Oprah interview.
Other revelations in Hardman’s book include how Prince William saw Harry’s remarks in his Netflix documentary that male members of the family can be tempted to marry someone who fits the mould rather than someone they are destined to be with as "the lowest of the low". William viewed it as "Harry making a blatant attack" on his wife Kate.
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