New book reveals Queen’s reaction to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s relationship

A new book has revealed how the Queen reacted to Harry and Meghan’s relationship — and the comment she made shortly after they wed.

The Queen’s telling reaction to Prince Harry’s romance with Meghan Markle has been revealed in a new book.

Prince Philip’s friend Gyles Brandreth has claimed the Queen liked the Duchess of Sussex and did “everything to make her feel welcome”.

But the upcoming biography called Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait says that she had one very telling concern about their relationship.

It explains: “The only concern the Queen let slip in the early days of the Sussexes’ marriage was to wonder to a friend if Harry wasn’t ‘perhaps a little over-in-love’.

According to the book, the Queen worried whether Harry was ‘a little over-in-love’ with Meghan. Picture: Chris Jackson/Getty Images.

“This was as far as she came – to my knowledge at least – to ever uttering a word against the new Duchess of Sussex.”

It also claims, contrary to claims made by Meghan in her explosive interview with Oprah, that the Queen and the royal family greeted Meghan with open arms.

It says the Queen was “devoted” to Harry and that and “she truly wished him well in his new life abroad” – and that this love was also extended to Meghan when she was brought into the family.

The book also claims the Queen spoke highly of Meghan. Picture: Chris Jackson/Getty Images.

An excerpt of the book, published in The Mail On Sunday says: “The truth is that when her grandson told her he was marrying Meghan Markle, she was truly delighted by the prospect.

“She liked Meghan and told lots of people so. And she did everything she could to make her future granddaughter-in-law feel welcome.”

It claims the Queen even suggested she keep working as she was “concerned for her future happiness”.

Insiders say Meghan was offered the opportunity to keep working. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.

It reads: “At their first meeting, the Queen said to Meghan: ‘You can carry on being an actress if you like – that’s your profession, after all.’”

It comes after it was revealed the Queen secretly fought painful cancer in the final year of her life.

The Queen died in September this year. Picture: POOL / AFP.

Her late Majesty is said to have had a form of bone marrow cancer, which symptoms include bone pain, before her death on September 8.

Her death certificate, released in September, officially recorded her cause of death as “old age”.

But Mr Brandreth wrote: “I had heard that the Queen had a form of myeloma — bone marrow cancer — which would explain her tiredness and weight loss and those ‘mobility issues’ we were often told about during the last year or so of her life.

This article originally appeared in The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission

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