Prince Harry's "Cruel" Betrayal of Dying Queen Elizabeth Left Family "Angry and Disgusted," Friend Claims

For the last few years of Queen Elizabeth's life, she was dealing with a major family drama: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's turmoil and then subsequent Megxit from the Royal Family. In fact, just over a week before her death, Meghan's bombshell interview with New York Magazine's The Cut was released, further damaging their relationships with Harry's clan. Earlier this week reports surfaced that Team Sussex is retiring their campaign against the family, as they have "nothing left to say." However, one of the late Queen's closest friends is "angry and disgusted" with them for everything they put her through while she was alive. 

A friend of Harry and Meghan's recently dished to The Sun that the couple was reorganizing their career goals and would no longer be taking aim at the Royal Family. "That period of their life is over as there is nothing left to say," the source reportedly said. 

"For the last years of her life, certainly from when her husband died [in April 2021], the queen was in a lot of pain. In the final months, of course, it got very much worse; by the time of the Platinum Jubilee (June 2022), she couldn't see very much, she couldn't hear very much, and she was easily confused. She barely moved from her apartments in Windsor Castle. Appearing on the balcony at the jubilee required a titanic effort," a friend of the Queen's told the Daily Beast. 

"That was the time for Harry and Meghan to bite their tongue. Instead, they produced this unending stream of incredibly hurtful films and interviews attacking her life's work. For Harry to announce he was writing a memoir when his grandmother was not just recently widowed but actually dying herself, as he must have known she was—well, the cruelty of it takes the breath away," they continued. 

"The idea that they are now going to take a vow of silence after all the damage they have done, even if it was true, which I very much doubt, will do nothing to assuage the anger and disgust some of her friends feel about what they did to the queen in her final years."

In a recent interview with London Times King Charles' best friend, Lord Nicholas Soames echoed similar thoughts. "In respect of Prince Harry… I can't put myself in the position where my own son, if he did something like that to me, it would just be the cruelest," he said.

Another source told Daily Telegraph in January that Harry and Meghan's "ambushing" of the family, "had an impact" on the queen's health, and the announcement of Harry's tell-all "was playing on her mind in her last months."

"This stuff was shoved in her face on an almost weekly basis. It had an impact. She had lost Prince Philip, and then the constant ambushing of the Royal family by a much-loved grandson did take its toll. At that stage in your life and your reign, you just don't need that on top of everything else," the friend said.