When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first of their bundle of joy into their family, a royal expert has claimed the late Queen Elizabeth’s three-word response was brutal
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, Prince Archie, royal fans were excited to get their first glimpse of the newest member of their family. But the couple were determined to do things their own way when it came to the birth of their son, so Archie’s first introduction to the public was a little bit different from what we have come to expect from a royal birth.
Whilst Kate Middleton had followed in the footsteps of other royal mothers and taken part in a photocall outside the hospital with all three of her newborns, there was a bit of confusion over Archie’s birth.
An initial statement from Buckingham Palace said that Meghan had gone into labour that morning, but another announcement was released swiftly after explaining that she had already given birth to a baby boy. Archie was then first photographed a couple of days later in Windsor Castle and some seriously sweet snaps of the late Queen and Prince Philip with him were released.
However, a royal expert has since claimed that despite the late Queen Elizabeth’s visible excitement and joy at meeting Archie she later made a three-word comment in an official address which he believed indicated that things were not all well in the House of Windsor behind closed doors.
Robert Lacey – royal author and historian – made the claim whilst writing for the Daily Mail, and even compared one of the Royal Family’s customs to Soviet Russia. He noted that in the Queen’s annual Christmas message after Archie had been born, the former monarch only quickly referenced the newest addition to the Sussex family, and not by name.
“Who does and who does not feature on the royal Christmas desk has always been like the changing panorama of faces on the historic balcony of Moscow’s Kremlin. It showed who was in favour and who was not,” the historian wrote. “In 2018, Harry and Meghan had featured smiling in a silver frame. But there would be no sign of them in 2019, nor any mention of the name Sussex.”
Lacey added, “The Queen simply acknowledged the arrival of her great-grandchild in passing, without mentioning his name or his parents: ‘Prince Philip and I have been delighted to welcome our eighth great-grandchild into our family.’ This was the Queen’s only reference to the new arrival and his parents in her 2019 address to the world — an anonymous ‘eighth great-grandchild’.
“The Sussex family had been ‘non-personed’ as effectively as the Soviets non-personed Trotsky and Khrushchev — another charming custom, of course, that had been developed by the Kremlin.” However, the expert also noted that a video clip of the Queen meeting Archie – alongside his maternal grandmother Doria Ragland – was played during the address.
