Princess Lilibet is the “real casualty” in Prince Harry’s fresh feud with the Royal Family, claims one royal expert.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that the late Queen was “angry” after learning that Harry and wife Meghan Markle had named their daughter after her and claimed that they had asked her permission first.
The couple, who are also parents to four-year-old Prince Archie, decided to name their daughter Lilibet after the late monarch – and Harry’s beloved grandmother.
Lilibet was the late Queen’s personal nickname and had stuck from her childhood after she couldn’t pronounce Elizabeth. The late monarch, who died in 2022, was fondly called Lilibet by her late husband, Prince Philip.
Princess Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, now two, was born in America in June 2021.
The late Queen’s feelings have been included in author Robert Hardman’s new book ‘Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story’.
According to the book, an anonymous royal aide reportedly said that the late Queen was “as angry as I’d ever seen her” after learning that Harry and Meghan shared that they had spoken to her and asked permission to use the name for their daughter.
Speaking on Newsweek’s podcast Royal Report, royal expert Jack Royston said: “On the other side of all this you’ve got Princess Lilibet. This isn’t about Harry and Meghan, this is about their daughter too, and she was only a newborn baby at the time, and she’s only two-years-old now. She is going to have this name for the whole of the rest of her life.”
He added: “Because this whole saga leaked in the media, she will always have a little shadow of doubt, or when she’s old enough to hear about it, she will always have that little shadow of doubt over whether the Queen actually did want her to have that name, or whether she was furious about the whole thing.
“I can see where the upset might have come from. But of all the things Harry and Meghan have said and done, like this does seem a little bit like it’s just picking on a newborn baby.”
