Prince Harry was reportedly furious after King Charles told him not to take Meghan Markle with him to see the late queen on the day she died.

In his 2023 memoir Spare, the prince – who had left life as a senior royal more than two years previously – spoke about the tragic day of his grandmother’s death, September 8, 2022.

While he himself was invited to Balmoral, where the late Queen was, to say goodbye, his father, King Charles, reportedly told him not to take his wife Meghan with him, despite the fact that They were both already in the UK.

In his memoir, Harry, 40, said: “He said I was welcome at Balmoral, but he didn’t want… her. He started to state his reason, which was absurd and disrespectful, and I didn’t do it. have it.”

The Duke said he was furious and told his father: “Never speak of my wife that way.”

Speaking about the rest of the conversation and his father’s reaction, Harry said: “He stammered, apologetically, saying he just didn’t want there to be a lot of people around. No other women was coming, Kate wasn’t coming, he said, so Meg shouldn’t do it.”

According to Prince Harrythe Duke also had difficulty getting to Balmoral that day and had little communication with other members of the royal family who were traveling to see the late Queen.

This meant Harry had to find his own way to Scotland and it was too late to say goodbye.

He wrote: “As the plane started to descend, I saw my phone light up. It was a message from Meg: ‘Call me when you get this.’ I looked at the BBC website. My grandmother had died. My father was king. »