Prince Harry was not informed about the late Queen Elizabeth II’s declining health and had “no idea” that the royals were preparing to say their goodbyes in her final hours, a bombshell book has claimed.
The monarch died aged 96 on September 8, 2022 at Balmoral Castle with her death officially announced to the world at 6.30pm – just hours before the Duke of Sussex was able to touch down in Aberdeen.
But Endgame – the explosive book from Harry and Meghan Markle’s unofficial biographer Omid Scobie – claimed Buckingham Palace kept him in the dark about the Queen’s rapidly declining health.
Scobie wrote: “The Sussexes had no idea that Buckingham Palace was already planning for the Queen’s final hours and the first days of the monarchy’s new era – until the duke’s phone started ringing.
“An unknown number. He usually ignored those.”
“Nobody’s wife was going, not even Kate, he told me, so Meg shouldn’t either.”
By the time Harry’s plane landed, the prince recalled getting the news that his grandmother had already died.
“When the plane started to descend I saw that my phone lit up. It was a message from Meg: ‘Call me when you get this'”, he wrote.
“I looked at the BBC website. My grandmother had died. My father was King.”
