A sensational new report claims the late Queen had some choice words about her granddaughter-in-law that seemed “out of character” at a Palace reception shortly before she died

The late Queen made a comment about Meghan Markle that floored everyone at a Palace reception, a source has sensationally alleged.

Just a month before her death at the age of 96, the late monarch reportedly branded her granddaughter-in-law “evil” as the relationship between the Sussexes and the Firm reached an all-time low. Seeming “regretful” that Prince Harry had stepped down as a working royal and moved his young family to California, the Queen is said to have described Meghan in a way that saw “everybody’s eyebrows hit the ceiling”. She allegedly made the comments during a drinks reception at Balmoral in August of last year.

“It was out of character for the Queen to use such a word as ‘evil’ to describe Meghan, but she saw straight through her. It was a startling sentence to hear from the most forgiving woman on earth,” the source told the Spectator.

“At the drinks before the dinner, a small group were talking to the monarch and she explained that Harry meeting Meghan had become a complete catastrophe and described her as evil. By this point, we all knew the Queen’s health was in decline and she had months left, she seemed regretful about how things had panned out.”