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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have reportedly been left shocked over the public outrage to them naming their daughter after Queen Elizabeth.
When Meghan gave birth in 2021, the couple announced their daughter’s name would be Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor, with her first name honouring Harry’s grandmother and the second his mother.
But a new book has claimed that the Queen was actually “furious” over the choice due to the couple failing to get her permission to use it.
According to Robert Hardman, author of Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story., the Queen told aides: “I don’t own the palaces. I don’t own the paintings, the only thing I own is my name. And now they’ve taken that.”
This news has left some enraged, with many attacking the couple on social media.
But the Sussexes are reportedly shocked, with an insider saying: “Meghan and Harry 100 percent got permission from the Queen to use the name Lilibet. The report is not true.
“They don’t know where this is coming from. They are shocked that this is coming now; it seems out of nowhere and out of left field. They just feel like it’s more of the same smear campaign that continues against them.
“They feel it’s convenient that this is surfacing now when the Queen is not here to defend herself and can’t say what is true or false.”
Harry and Meghan have also been accused of “making problems” for their daughter by a royal expert.
Royal Holloway professor Pauline Maclaran suggested that the controversy could haunt Lilibet for years to come.
She said: “Her name is going to be associated with that idea that the Queen made that announcement and that’s not very nice actually for the child if that’s going be relived.”
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