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Prince Philip didn’t need his grandson to marry Meghan Markle.
This, in keeping with royal historian Andrew Lownie’s e book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the Home of York, which was launched earlier this 12 months.
The revealing memoir claims that Queen Elizabeth’s brother didn’t thoughts that Prince Harry was relationship Markle… who was greatest identified on the time for her position on the USA Community hit Fits.
HOWEVER, he had the next to say about Harry truly settling down along with his then-girlfriend.
Prince Philip, Duke of Ediburgh leaves St George’s Chapel after the marriage of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and The Duchess of Sussex at St Georges Chapel on Might 19, 2018 in Windsor, England. (Photograph by Gareth Fuller – WPA/Getty Photographs)
One steps out with actresses, one doesn’t marry them, Philip allegedly advised Harry a few years in the past.
Harry and Meghan received collectively in 2016 and introduced their engagement the next 12 months. They received married in 2018, with Philip (above) in attendance.
A special e book, printed earlier this 12 months by former royal butler Grant Harrold, detailed one other off-color comment from Philip following Harry and Meghan’s wedding ceremony ceremony.
“Once all the formalities were over, we watched as the happy couple, and then the other members of the Royal Family, filed out of the chapel,” Harrold wrote in The Royal Butler, which was launched in August.
“When Prince Philip came out, he turned to the Queen and said, ‘Thank f-ck that’s over.’”
Meghan Markle attends Fortune Most Highly effective Ladies Summit 2025 at Salamander Resort on October 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Leigh Vogel/Getty Photographs for Fortune Media)
As most superstar gossip followers know at this level, Philip was not alone in his warning over Harry’s marriage to Meghan, as Prince William was reportedly “nervous” in regards to the wedding ceremony.
In Harry’s personal memoir Spare, he wrote of his brother’s warnings to him previous to the massive day.
“‘It’s too fast’, he’d told me. ‘Too soon’. In fact, he’d actually been pretty discouraging about me even dating Meg,” Harry wrote of William on this controversial e book.
Wanting forward, in the meantime, Markle is plotting her return to performing.
Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his spouse Meghan Markle react whereas attending a present throughout a go to to the Nationwide Centre for the Arts in Bogota on August 15, 2024. (Photograph by RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP through Getty Photographs)
Philip handed away at age 99 in 2021, a couple of 12 months after Harry and Meghan walked away from their duties as senior working royals and relocated to California.
Royal biographer Ingrid Seward beforehand advised Us Weekly that there was no unhealthy blood between Philip and Markle.
She truly alleged that Phillip was “very welcoming” towards the previous Fits solid member, explaining 4 years in the past:
“She was a newcomer — and a very different newcomer. At the time of Meghan and Harry’s romance, he wasn’t around nearly as much because he’d retired. He didn’t see very much of Meghan at all [and] he didn’t really have a chance to form a relationship with her.”
